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Kmart Launches U.S. Latino Series On YouTube

Kmart has launched a campaign that explicitly targets Spanish-dominant Latina mothers called, "Madres y Comadres." Exclusively in Spanish, the internet series intends to "share and celebrate the real humor and drama of havi [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

YouTube Collects 20,000 Movie Clips for Fans

Google's YouTube has signed a deal with MovieClips.com to apparently replace the thousands of movie clips users have uploaded with authentic, licensed replacements. The more than 20,000 licensed movie clips may be found at YouTube Mov [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

YouTube grows, accounts for 1 in every 35 UK internet visits

Video sharing site YouTube accounts for one in every 35 internet visits in the UK and nearly 23 percent of visits to all social networks in July, according to new research by market analysts Experian Hitwise. Though Facebook remains th [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Amnesty's YouTube channel sparks row by suggesting Obama bac...

Amnesty International has courted controversy by launching a satirical video channel with a "cut-up" film which suggests that President Barack Obama endorses torture. The human rights organisation has created a YouTube channe [...]

Posted On : Aug, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Asylum seekers to appear on YouTube

The first 55 asylum seekers to be sent to Malaysia for processing will feature on YouTube as a deterrent, but their transfer will be filmed with dignity, Immigration Minister Chris Bowen says. Authorities broke the news to the 36 adults a [...]

Posted On : Aug, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

YouTube embarrassment for Freida Pinto

'Slumdog Millionaire' star Freida Pinto has revealed that she felt ashamed when she discovered her "cheesy" advertisements that she had filmed when she was younger had appeared online. The Indian beauty regularly starred [...]

Posted On : Aug, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

YouTube's newest star: Britney's 3-year-old niece

A YouTube video posted by pop star Britney Spears of her three-year-old niece singing one of her hit songs is a hit on the video sharing website and has made Maddie Briann Aldridge a 'viral star'. Over one million people endorsed [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

YouTube clips to scare asylum seekers

Online videos of asylum seekers boarding planes to Malaysia will be posted on YouTube and Facebook in an effort to discourage asylum seekers making the dangerous boat journey to Australia. The planned online blitz follows last week's [...]

Posted On : Aug, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Life in a Day crosses Youtube with documentary: movie review

It probably sounded like a great idea. YouTube, in collaboration with Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free Productions, invited its worldwide contributors to submit personal diary footage covering a single Saturday – July 24, 20 [...]

Posted On : Aug, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

'Life in a Day' tries to be more than a YouTube movie

One year ago, after putting in a full day of work at her local department store, Betsy DelValley got home and pulled out her video camera. It was July 24, 2010, the day that YouTube launched an experimental project asking users of the soc [...]

Posted On : Jul, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

YouTube sensation raps about D.C. debt debate

A new voice is heating up the debt ceiling debate in Washington. Comedian Remy Munasif's new rap video, "Raise the Debt Ceiling," has gotten thousands of hits on his website - one more sign that people don't like what [...]

Posted On : Jul, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

YouTube film Life in a Day coming to theaters

One year ago YouTube viewers were asked to upload a video reflecting a day in their lives. According to the filmmakers, people from all over the world uploaded 80,000 videos with 4500 hours of footage. The result is the 90-minute doc [...]

Posted On : Jul, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Marines date stars, thanks to YouTube

Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis have accepted YouTube invitations from two US Marines, one serving in Afghanistan, to accompany them to military balls. Singer-turned-actor Timberlake and “Black Swan” star Kunis are having fun [...]

Posted On : Jul, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

YouTube-powered film ‘Life in a Day’ set to premiere

YouTube has become a library of human experience, with hundreds of thousands of people documenting every moment of the minutiae in their lives. There are kittens dreaming, babies biting their brothers, beaux proposing — hours and ho [...]