Google and it’s plans to take on the TV industry
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YouTube’s business model is currently based entirely on advertising revenue. But what if the site started offering streaming movie rentals for...
Making money on YouTube isn’t an easy venture, even for Google itself. But it’s getting easier for individual users. Now, as...
YouTube is in many ways online video personified. When you search online you Google something, and when you want to watch...
The good news is that YouTube is streaming the original Ghostbusters movie in full for free for a whole week as...
The news is changing, especially the way in which it is reported and delivered to us, the public. While Google has...
YouTube was once an open playground where people could happily upload copyrighted content without fear of a takedown or reprisals. But...
Just about the only thing known about YouTube for sure is its immense popularity, with viewer numbers making it one of...
Since paying the GDP of a small country for YouTube, Google has turned the site into a more legitimate, more stable,...
No one begrudges content creators being given the money they are owed for their work. But when ASCAP (the American Society...
YouTube has seen off another contender to its throne, with Microsoft preparing to kill off Soapbox, or at least substantially shutter...
Everyone knows YouTube is losing lots more money to run than it’s bringing in, right? Wrong. Sure, a Credit Suisse report...
Could an International version of the BBC iPlayer be on the way? Possibly, if rumors of talks happening between Google and...
The Performing Rights Society (PRS) collects royalties for music artists, and it generally does a good job. Except when it pushed...
To hear that YouTube is the most popular, most visited, and most content-filled online video site on the Web is hardly...
YouTube has, for a long time, been the king of short-form content. And despite various pretenders to its crown, this looks...
YouTube is the most trafficked online video site in the world, one of the most trafficked Web sites of any kind...
Google has had to get tough on copyright violations on YouTube. Fair enough. But surely removing a video clip featuring footage...
Old media and new media are often uncomfortable bedfellows. The old knows it needs the new but cannot quite give up...
The idea of freedom, and rights to privacy and anonymity differ greatly from country to country. While those of us who...
Google has got to think big if it’s to turn YouTube from the money pit it has become into something profitable...
Google has been trying to turn YouTube into a sleeker, slicker, money-making site for nigh on a year now. Although it’s...
No-one living in China will be able to access YouTube for the foreseeable future after the site was mysteriously blocked in...
Three issues have converged this week: YouTube’s inability to make revenue, the continuing fight between the PRS and YouTube, and Rickrolling....
Google, the owner of YouTube, is a sucker for information. It lives only because of data it collects about all of...
YouTube is very important to the music industry, and the music industry is very important to YouTube. It’s a symbiotic relationship...
Since its inception, YouTube has been a purely Web-based affair. You visit the site, watch a video or two and then...
I’m fully of the opinion that new media needs to be embraced rather than strangled. This goes for the movie industry,...
Downloading videos from YouTube has long been possible via dedicated software but the option is now starting to appear on the...
Although it was am obvious move that many were surprised didn’t happen sooner, the culling of Google Video is still big...
We all know by now of the problems YouTube has been facing regarding copyrighted material on the site. But is the...
