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YouTube to get ad money from TV?

YouTube may soon be profiting from advertisers who originally had their sites on TV. The online site, which is owned by Google, may see its advertising revenue increase by at least 40 percent since last year. It has recently attempted to [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Will YouTube’s new channels kill TV?

San Fransisco: The cramped third-floor studio where a scarf-wearing puppet is being filmed feels more like the hive of an Internet startup than the set of a video production. Squatting behind a table on one end of the room, the show&rsquo [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

YouTube covets TV gold with new channels

Squatting behind a table on one end of the room, the show’s director does double-duty as puppeteer, while colleagues outside the camera’s field of view toil on Mac computers. Peter Furia, the director-cum-puppeteer, [...]

Posted On : May, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Sorry, Facebook and YouTube--You're Not Getting Ad $ From TV...

A whole lot of very big and small online companies, from Facebook and Google to a gazillion ad tech startups, are betting on capturing some portion of advertising dollars currently spent on television. By contrast, Simulmedia is betting t [...]

Posted On : May, 01 2012 | Comments : 0

KT reviewing network fees on Youtube, Internet TVs

KT fired its first salvo on "free riding" Internet services earlier this month by blocking access to certain TV applications offered by Samsung Electronics Co, the top manufacturer of Internet TVs, with the burgeoning TV industr [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

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 [...]