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YouTube Suffers Hour Outage – Everyone Cares

If you want further proof of how much YouTube has become an integral part of all our lives, you need look...
Dave Parrack
41 sec read

YouTube Monetization Tools On Way | Google CEO Eric Schmidt Promises New Innovations

When Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006, my guess would be they planned to make some money out of...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Video Integrated In To Google Maps | Allowing Companies To Advertise On The Web

Last year saw YouTube integrated in to Google Earth, allowing surfers to watch videos tagged with the locations they are viewing...
Dave Parrack
43 sec read

The New YouTube API & Plans For TiVo | What’s The Big Deal Behind Them?

Last week saw Google announce two new elements in its YouTube arsenal: the all singing, all dancing, all new API, and...
Leslie Poston
2 min read

Could YouTube Being Taken Down By Pakistan So Easily Be A Sign Of Things To Come?

Earlier this week, YouTube suffered an outage which lasted for almost two hours, a serious amount of time for the second...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
1 min read

YouTube Experiences Worldwide Outage Due To Pakistan Government Block Attempt

YouTube experienced an outage lasting almost two hours last night after an attempt by the Pakistani government to block access to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube AdSense Revenue Share Scheme Being Extended To More Of The General Public

YouTube have been experimenting with advertising on videos for a good few months now, and by all accounts, it;s been quite...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

YouTube’s New AtGoogleTalks Video Page | Google Breaks Own 10 Minute Rule On Uploads

Google’s time limit for user-submitted videos uploaded to YouTube is well established, and known by almost everyone these days. Ten minutes. That’s...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

YouTube Still Dominating Online Video Market

A ComScore report has further confirmed what we all suspected, that Google YouTube completely dominates the online video market. The report...
Dave Parrack
54 sec read

Google Partner With Nielsen Ratings To Measure Ad Numbers And Demographics

Google have announced they are to partner with Nielsen, the company which measures television ratings across various demographics. Nielsen has set...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Media Giants Want User Generated Content Principles | Blocking Copyrighted Material

A host of media companies have launched a new push to force user generated content sites such as YouTube to tighten...
Sherwin Siy
3 min read

The Google YouTube Anti-Piracy Tool Means The Internet Is A Little Less Free Today

Under pressure from movie studios, record labels and their friends on Capitol Hill to filter out copyrighted material, YouTube’s parent company Google...
Gigi Sohn
3 min read

YouTube Anti-Piracy Software Finally Launches | Google Back To The Drawing Board Already?

Originally planned for a September release, the fabled YouTube antipiracy tool has finally appeared, according to Webware. Due to the controversy...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

Monetizing Your Blog With AdSense YouTube Video Units | Video Advertising Tutorial

After months of speculation and testing, Google have finally made it official and recently announced the launch of “Video Units”. This...
Robin Good
4 min read

Adsense Embedded YouTube Video Units Arrive | Google Announces Advert Evolution

Google has officially launched the adsense video adverts which we discussed a week or so ago here on WebTVWire. To provide a...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

YouTube Embedded Video Players Now To Come With Google AdSense Included

Adsense is now starting to make an appearance at YouTube, news that is long overdue, but Google unveiled the new feature...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

How Google Can Turn YouTube In To Another AdSense Style Success… Possibly

YouTube is now starting to run embedded adverts in videos on the site, after the announcement a couple of weeks ago....
Russell Heimlich
3 min read

Why YouTube Embedded Advertisements Will Fail | InVideo Ads Are Distracting

Earlier this week, Google announced the inevitable: the addition of embedded in video advertisements to YouTube.  Appropriately called InVideo ads, these...
Russell Heimlich
2 min read

YouTube Video Embedded Adverts Fight | Brightcove, AdBright & VideoEgg Claim They Did It First

Yesterday, Google YouTube officially debuted its new in-video ad delivery system. After weeks of experimentation, the first embedded video advertisements went...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

Google Apologises Over Google Video Shut Down | Offers Customers Full Refunds

It seems Google isn’t above changing their mind on the back of criticism and negative responses from customers and the blogosphere...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

DRM Issues Behind Today’s Google Video Shutdown?

Digital Rights Management or DRM for short, is an invention the rational amongst us wish had never come to be.  It’s...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

Google Video Marketplace To Shut | Google Leaves Paid Customers Upset

Google started Google Video as an answer to the massively popular Apple iTunes video marketplace. This is where users can download...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

Google Video Porn | SafeSearch Not Doing Too Well at Filtering

I was just looking around on the biased Google Video Search Engine to see what videos they had indexed from YouTube....
Chris Tew
16 sec read

Google Video | The Biased Video Search Engine

Back in January Google announced it will also be indexing YouTube videos within Google Video. Previously it just contained videos that...
Chris Tew
1 min read

Google Video Got it Wrong Three Times | Road to Online Video Domination

Google video has seen 4 major changes in direction since its launch. While the average surfer may not have noticed these...
Chris Tew
2 min read

YouTube’s Digital Fingerprinting Technology To Include AutoShutDown | Due September

YouTube‘s Claim Your Content, a video recognition technology supposedly as sophisticated and precise as the FBI’s fingerprint recognition algorithms, will incorporate...
Hal Licino
1 min read

TV Advertising Business Dead | Google Recommends Internet Technology

Speaking at iTV Con on Tuesday, a trade conference dedicated to Internet television, Google’s Vicent Dureau told industry players and reporters...
Andrew Macarthy
56 sec read

YouTube & Google Maps Integration | Add YouTube Videos to Your Google Maps

YouTube and Google have combined forces. Now, when video creators set locations for their different videos, these videos will appear on...
Chris Tew
26 sec read