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<< Previous | Next >> June 29, 2009Google News Opens the Floodgates to YouTube Publishers
YouTube launches Reporters' Center to help you report the NewsYouTube is helping the enormous community of citizen reporters on YouTube with a new resource to help them learn more about how to report the news. YouTube Reporters' Center features some of the nation's top journalists sharing instructional videos with tips and advice for better reporting. In their own words: Learn how to prepare for an interview from CBS News' Katie Couric; how to be an investigative reporter from the legendary Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, or why it's important for citizens to participate in the news-gathering process from Arianna Huffington. And definitely don't miss out on New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's video on how to report from a crisis area without getting shot. In addition, you can also learn practical and ethical tips, like how to fact check your stories, avoid breaking the law while reporting, and adhere to journalistic principles. [via YouTube Blog] Michael Jackson Flashmob tributesIn Paris, London, Vienna and New York, hundreds gathered to pay homage to Michael Jackson. All theses videos on YouTube are titled Mass Moonwalk, but it's mostly music. In most videos the crowd is focusing their cameraphones on something we can't see, probably someone moonwalking. June 26, 2009YouTube Mobile Uploads Up 400% Since iPhone 3GS LaunchYouTube reports that in the six days since the iPhone 3GS was released last week, the number of mobile uploads has increased by a whopping 400%. For a single phone model to have such a major impact on the site is simply phenomenal. [via TechCrunch]
June 23, 2009Make Videos for Nonprofits Via YouTube Video VolunteerYouTube is appealing to your inner filmmaker in an effort to get the word out about certain charitable organizations. AppScout reports.
[via YouTube Blog] June 18, 2009YouTube Diplomacy and IranA must read article from Andrew Rosen, for The Huffington Post on the asscending technological revolution happening in Iran.
Excerpts would not do this piece justice. Read full article. June 17, 2009Citizentube blog launches to support YouTube channelGoogle has announced that YouTube has gone live with a new blog to support its Citizentube video channel. Pocket-Lint reports.
[via Official Google Blog] June 12, 2009New YouTube feature lets you share with Facebook, Twitter...YouTube has just enabled a new feature that allows users to directly share their recently uploaded videos to Facebook, Twitter, and Google Reader. This means you’ll be able to syndicate your newly uploaded content directly into your friends’ feeds. You can link your accounts on YouTube’s ‘Upload’ page. The new functionality is limited to new video uploads for now. [via TechCrunch] June 5, 2009YouTube To Premiere Movie Simultaneous To Theater ReleaseYouTube will premiere Luc Besson’s latest movie, Home, the first simultaneous Internet and theater debut, as the video-sharing site looks to Hollywood to goose its ad sales and reach profitability, reports Bloomberg. Watch the trailer. YouTube now has the equivalent of 90,000 full-length films uploaded in one week, or 15 hours of content added every minute. June 3, 2009YouTube making jump to TV screensGoogle's video service is rolling out a new browser feature, called YouTube XL, designed to present YouTube videos on big screens, company managers said Tuesday, reports News.com.
Read full article. June 1, 2009YouTube looking at standalone 'SafeTube' site for familiesAccording to The Guardian, YouTube is exploring the introduction of a family-friendly 'SafeTube' version of the site as part of its programme of improving safety and content standards, it said today.
May 24, 2009YouTube: 20 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute!In mid-2007, six hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute. Then it grew to eight hours per minute, then 10, then 13. In January of this year, it became 15 hours of video uploaded every minute, the equivalent of Hollywood releasing over 86,000 new full-length movies into theaters each week. Now, 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. [via YouTube's official blog] May 21, 2009YouTube in talks to offer full versions of British-owned showsWith news emerging that Hulu, the American free online video-on-demand service backed by News Corp, NBC Universal and Disney, is in similar negotiations and gearing up for a September British launch, the race is on to dominate British online TV market. The Telegraph reports.
Read full article. May 20, 2009YouTube Ordered to Pay $1.6M to ASCAPA district judge has ordered YouTube to pay $1.61 million in royalties to U.S. songwriters, and $70,000 per month going forward. Techdirt reports via NewTeeVee.
May 19, 2009YouTube in TIME's 'top tech failures
May 15, 2009Google News adds YouTube news videos
Google News is now integrating YouTube news videos into its front-page results. YouTube icons now appear next to video results under the aggregated news topic. Nearly 14 million unique visitors access Google News monthly, according to Compete.com, so providing this video discovery mechanism to such a large audience could boost YouTube's views even more. [via FierceOnline Video] May 9, 2009World Red Cross Red on YouTubeToday is World Red Cross Day and the commemoration marks over 60 years of the Red Cross preparing communities for emergencies and providing disaster relief to those in need. Over the past few years, the organization has been using YouTube to help achieve these objectives. For example, the British Red Cross posted this nine-video how-to series about first aid. The videos cover everything from how to perform CPR to how to treat a burn. Not to be outdone, the American Red Cross has just uploaded sixteen very pertinent videos all about swine flu, including information about how it spreads and how to prevent infection. Read full post in YouTube Blog. NASA astronaut will tweet, take YouTube questions ... live from spaceIn a YouTube video posted today, NASA astronaut Mark Polansky said that during his crew's mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for June, he plans to both issue Twitter updates and take questions from YouTube users -- questions that he will answer live from space. [via The LA Times Blog] May 8, 2009ABC News Opens YouTube ChannelABC News is launching its own branded channel on YouTube, featuring programming from, among others, Good Morning America and Nightline. Showcasing short-form news content, the ABC News Channel on YouTube will include breaking stories as they happen and highlights from interviews with newsmakers. Programming from shows such as World News with Charles Gibson, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, 20/20 and Primetime will also be available. Additionally, the channel will host Quick Fix, a web-exclusive program from ABCNews.com. [via WorldScreen] May 6, 2009McDonald's Rolls With YouTube For McCafe LaunchMcDonald's is launching an all-out ad blitz for its new line of McCafe premium coffees?and one of the first places you'll see the branding is on YouTube. paidContent reports.
Princes join Bond on YouTube filmPrinces Charles, William and Harry are to star with James Bond star Daniel Craig in a YouTube film promoting environmental protection. The BBC reports.
Above: HRH The Prince of Wales launches the PRP's new global awareness campaign with a webcast to the online social network community and introduces the premiere of the PRP's new campaign video. May 4, 2009YouTube: Placement PoliceIn recent months, YouTube has set off some jangled nerves among several of its more popular content producers, writes Mediaweek.
Read full article. Top YouTube Videos of All Time
Visible Measures, the online video tracking platform, has just published their list of the most watched viral videos of all time. In their own words: Since Susan Boyle's recent viral video triumph (has it only been three weeks?), we've been inundated with requests for a listing of the most watched viral videos of all time. The questions come in part because people are eager to understand Susan's position in the pantheon of viral video history, but also because the numbers involved have exceeded many people's expectations regarding the potential cultural impact of online video. Susan Boyle comes in the number five spot with 186,000,000 million views in the less than a month. Number one? Crank Dat music video by Soldier Boy (above): Not available for viewing in Switzerland though as well as number 3: Touch My Body music video by Mariah Carey. [via Mashable who has posted the top 13 videos] Related to blocked content: April 27, 2009Luc Besson's film coming to YouTube for World Environment DayLuc Besson's and Yann-Arthus Betrand's 90 minute full-length film, Home, will exclusively be available online on YouTube for English, French, Spanish and German–speaking countries beginning June 5 — just in time for the 37th World Environment Day. [via YouTube Blog] April 25, 2009YouTube and Partners Miss Out on Boyle Bonanza
Read full article. April 23, 2009YouTube Real TimeGoogle began testing a new feature called YouTube RealTime that lets you and your friends share in the moment what you're doing with the site. News.com reports.
TechCrunch gave it a spin. Read their review. April 18, 2009YouTube's legal end-run irks Korean officialsGoogle's advice on sidestepping a South Korean law against anonymous YouTube video postings and comments doesn't seem to be sitting well with some of the country's authorities. Cnet news reports.
April 17, 2009Susan Boyle follows Paul Potts
Unemployed and never been kissed 47-year-old Susan Boyle has become an Internet and world news phenomenon following her rendition of I Dreamed a Dream on Britain's Got Talent show. But one writer is sceptical and so am I. Michael Musto for The Village Voice believes the jury's performance was basically staged. He wirtes:
I agree and find the story a repeat of an earlier contestant Paul Potts who worked for a mobile phone store and became the winner of the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2007, singing an operatic aria. Only in his case, the audience and jury's emotions seemed real. Full length TV streams and movies on YouTubeYouTube, the Internet's largest video site on Thursday announced that it has struck deals with a host of entertainment companies, including Sony Pictures, CBS (parent company of CNET News), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Lionsgate, Starz, and the BBC, to acquire "thousands" of TV episodes and hundreds of films. The new content will only be available in the United States. [via News.com] April 16, 2009Punk'd! Local pranks go national thanks to YouTubeForget toilet paper and a neighbor's tree—YouTube has become the new home for pranks, but once those pranks gain national exposure, they don't always turn out to be so funny. Case in point: a video showing Domino's Pizza employees fake-farting on the salami. Ars Technica reports.
Real full article. April 13, 2009The YouTube PresidencyA wonderful article from The New York Times on why the Obama administration uploads so much video.
YouTube Orchestra Announces Program Carnegie Hall Concert
[via Broadway World] Previously: April 10, 2009Drug cartel videos on YouTubeThe violence among Mexican drug cartels has spread to YouTube, according to USA Today.
Read full article. April 8, 2009YouTube Sensation Fred Passes 1M SubscribersFred, the hyper active teenager who's a YouTube sensation and who sounds like he's inhaled a helium balloon, has just surpassed 1 million subscribers. [via The New York Times] April 7, 2009Does YouTube actually make any money?
New figures suggest that the video website may be on course to lose nearly half a billion dollars this year. The Guardian reports.
Sony, YouTube in talks to license filmsSony Pictures may be in talks with YouTube to license some of its films—in their full-length glory—to the popular video sharing site. If so, it could be among the first studios to do so on YouTube. If true, the move will allow YouTube to better compete with the content NBC-owned Hulu, which already streams a wide variety of full-length movies and TV shows. Read full article in arstechnica. April 2, 2009YouTube Blocks Music Videos in GermanyAs of Wednesday, Google will no longer allow users with German IP addresses to watch music videos on YouTube, after negotiations between the music industry and Google over compensation for copyright holders broke down. [via Wired] April 1, 2009YouTube Down Again in ChinaYouTube is once again inaccessible in China, after briefly reappearing on Monday, reports WSJ Digits.
March 31, 2009Disney Will Make Short Videos Available on YouTubeWalt Disney Television became the latest media company to make a distribution deal with YouTube on Monday, saying that it would share short-form content with the world’s largest video Web site. [via The New York Times] March 29, 2009Higher Education for All
YouTube has announced the launch of YouTube EDU, a hub for videos from over 100 of our leading university and college partners. Think campus tours, news about cutting-edge research, and lectures by professors and world-renowned thought leaders. There are also 200 full (and free!) courses, in a range of subjects, from some of the world's most prestigious universities, including IIT/IISc, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Yale. There are over 20,000 videos on YouTube EDU and growing. [via YouTube Blog] Special YouTube Ads Earn Nonprofit $10,000 In A Single Day
March 24, 2009China 'blocks YouTube video site'China is reported to have blocked the YouTube video-sharing website because it has been carrying video of soldiers beating monks and other Tibetans, reports BBC.
Google Boosts Video Analytics on YouTubeTo what was a very basic tool, Google has added such features as the ability to take a look at the YouTube community's comments and ratings about a video and to drill down on feedback to a particular country or region in the world. [via Intelligent Enterprise]
March 19, 2009March 11, 2009College Credit via YouTubeA computer science professor at an Australian University is doing something revolutionary with YouTube - he's offering students who can't attend his classes college credit for watching his videos. ReadWrite Web reports.
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