Posts for 'You Tube Updates' Category

YouTube, as I write in an article Friday, is following its viewers away from the computer screen to screens both big and small. People are increasingly watching videos on the tiny screens on their cellphones. YouTube gets 160 million mobile views a day, almost triple the number last year.

People watch videos on their phones if they are commuting on public transport, if they are too lazy to boot up their laptops or, in the case of Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, when they are trying to spice up a party.

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Video sharing website YouTube has released the list of its 10 most viewed videos. The site marked its fifth birthday by announcing that viewers now watch more than two billion videos a day from the video-sharing site. "That's nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major US television networks combined," A YouTube team member.  As of May 18, 2010, the 10 most viewed videos were:

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Something strange was going on with the Internet night last, and it seems that traffic to several popular sites such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook were redirected to servers in China, which effectively put people behind the famous Great Firewall of China, giving users a taste of what Internet users in China see when they try to access those blocked sites.

Apparently the issue could be related to the Domain Name System (DNS), though the issue seems to have been fixed. Of course, the question on everybody’s lips is whether this is related to Google’s recent spat with the Chinese government, or is it just a badly-timed accident? Did you notice anything weird happening with your Internet recently?

Olympic hopeful Nodar Kumaritashvili's luge accident has not only led to a flood of YouTube 'reports' and comments but also to just as many critical voices regarding users making money from the tragic death.

1) We Are The World 25 For Haiti - Official Video - More than 70 of today's most popular singers, including Barbra Streisand, Kanye West, and Pink are participating in the remake of Lionel Richie's song that was originally released to raise awareness of the famine in Africa 25 years ago. 9 850 907 views.

2) LUGE ACCIDENT KILLS OLYMPIC STAR - This video caused a heated debate about YouTubers profiting financially from other people's misery. In particular this one by TheRealWeeklyNews, drew attention and caused the maker of the original clip to apologize. 4 449 840 views.

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YouTube is announcing new ad options for marketers, moving along with its plan to generate a strong revenue stream. In a partnership with startup Free Wheel it will allow publishers to serve their own ads through their own networks, bypassing YouTube's established channels. This is a significant change for the video site as it has traditionally been very strict in allowing others to use its infrastructure and has been mostly reluctant in working with third-party companies.

“Today we're announcing a trial with FreeWheel that will allow some partners who sell their own ads to serve those ads directly into their videos on YouTube. (Previously, ads sold by these partners were still served by YouTube.) This will create a more centralized, streamlined process for partners in the test program, making it easier for them to sell ads and make even more money from their content,” Phil Farhi, YouTube product manager, wrote on the business YouTube blog.

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I like playing games on my phone. Yes, my crappy old Nokia phone. I can’t afford an iPhone with their hip games and instant YouTube access. So those of you who can cast their minds back far enough to remember the game Snake that features on pretty much all Nokia phones might enjoy this video. Playing Snake using apartment windows? Interesting!

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At Comic-Con Thursday, the film’s director Joe Kosinsky said TRON Legacy is more a “photo-real, or photo-surreal environment”.

Disney says the following of the film:

“TRON is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (JEFF BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years.

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Microsoft's YouTube competitor will bow out on August 31, in another nod by Microsoft to the tough economy. Microsoft said in June that it was re-evaluating Soapbox, although Microsoft vice president Erik Jorgensen said in a published report that Soapbox might become a site where bloggers and citizen journalists could post videos, possibly for a fee.

Now that's not going to happen. Microsoft notified customers on Tuesday that Soapbox would stop accepting videos on July 29 and that users who want to retrieve their videos should do so by August 31.

MSN will not stop offering online video, even though the user-generated content will be gone. "MSN Video has 88M unique users around the world, who watch 480M video streams each month," a spokesman said. "We remain committed to delivering amazing experiences for consumers while keeping a keen eye on our business objectives during this tough economic climate.

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YouTube recently unveiled a new section for TV shows and full-length movies. With partners like Crackle, CBS, MGM, Lionsgate, Starz and more it now offers thousands of TV episodes and hundreds of movies for visitors to watch, comment on, favorite and share.

"This addition is one of many efforts underway to ensure that we’re offering you all the different kinds of video you want to see, from bedroom vlogs and citizen journalism reports to music videos and full-length films and TV shows," it says.

YouTube no doubt wishes to compete with other streaming sites like Hulu, a joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal, and which offers a wide variety of TV shows and movies to watch.  The only drawbacks so far are availability and content.

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