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YouTube invests $100 mn to compete with TV

The video mega-website YouTube is expanding its offerings and spending $100 million to bring a variety of professional video content providers, from fitness and sports to politics and entertainment, aboard the service in 2012, reports USA [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

YouTube spends $100 million to redefine TV

BEVERLY HILLS – On a recent sun-kissed day, a trio of hot names made a pilgrimage to the ninth floor of the Four Seasons Hotel. But the director McG, singer Taio Cruz and Web musical phenom Greyson Chance were not guests at the posh [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2012 | Comments : 0

Youtube moves toward TV with new premium content

YouTube's new premium content push featuring the likes of Madonna and Ashton Kutcher spurred speculation that the Googleowned site is issuing a direct challenge to the television industry. That suspicion was given further credence [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

YouTube content push: walls between internet, TV crumbling

That suspicion was given further credence by reports that Google is considering offering paid cable-TV services to consumers. For Michael Hirschorn, chief creative officer of the recently launched IconicTV and one of the nearly 100 conten [...]

Posted On : Nov, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

To lure cable TV viewers, Google adds ‘channels’ to YouTube

YouTube, the Google-bought video collection, is going pro-am. Its weekend announcement that it plans to launch 100 new “channels” of professionally made video to its oh-so-amateur core could move Kansas City, especially, away [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

You Tube 2.0 helping new stars redefine TV

Blending as it does into a forgettable suburban strip mall, Metro Skateshop is easy to miss. Not so its owner, Joel Jutagir.The skateboarding fanatic has turned his decades-long obsession with filming himself and his friends into a popula [...]

Posted On : Jun, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

YouTube Remote app controls YouTube, on the TV or PC, from A...

The smart phone is increasingly becoming one more living-room remote control. Not long ago Apple came out with its Remote app for the iPhone and iPad, which can be used to control iTunes when synced with a computer or Apple TV device. [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

YouTube makes a play for TV

Five years ago this week YouTube crept onto the internet and quickly became the world's largest online video sharing site - home to more folksy clips of kittens than you care to imagine. Today it has a global audience of 400 million [...]

Posted On : Feb, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

YouTube eyes lead in web-enabled TV battle

The push for the video-sharing site carries the strapline 'YouTube's got TV' and will run on bus-sides, Tube panels and as full-page print ads. It will precede the introduction in 2010 of next-generation internet-enabled TV sets by several [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

YouTube adds full length TV shows

The new area is called ‘Shows’ and sees the video-sharing site, owned by Google, play full length episodes of British content for the first time, following a landmark three year deal with Channel 4 – as first revealed by T [...]

Posted On : Nov, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

YouTube local bypasses TVor maybe not

YouTube’s attempt to become a local news competitor in every market got big play Monday in the New York Times. So, we decided to check it out. Does local TV really have anything to worry about? YouTube isn’t, of course, actually [...]

Posted On : Aug, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

Steven Gerrard YouTube CCTV mash-up: Have you seen the Loung...

One woman in particular, who was featured in the CCTV footage shown in court, has caught the eye of an eagle-eyed YouTube user who’s created a mash-up of her busting out some serious dance moves in a bid to get the attention of the fo [...]

Posted On : Jul, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

YouTube Adds Section for TV Shows, Full-Length Movies

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, fa [...]

Posted On : Apr, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

Music fans shun TV for YouTube

Nearly three in five (57 per cent) youth consumers logged on to YouTube to watch a music video in the last 12 months, compared to 56 per cent who watched a music TV channel. However, TV still has the lead when it comes to adults as a whol [...]