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South Park Mocks Viral Internet Stars | Clip Available On YouTube Despite Viacom Lawsuit

The latest episode of anarchic adult cartoon South Park, shown last night in the US, has mocked viral Internet stars who...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Cult Of Rick Astley Goes Mainstream – YouTube RickRoll Users | Aprils Fools Day Gags

As anyone who surfs the World Wide Web on a daily basis couldn’t have failed to notice, today was April Fools...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Launches Video Statistics Package | YouTube Insight Gives Marketers The Edge

Up until today, people who uploaded videos to YouTube could only get limited statistics and information about the people who were...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Online Video Traffic Surges Massively In The UK | YouTube, BBC iPlayer Market Leaders

With most of the big players in the Web TV and streaming video industry being based in North America, read Google,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Money Filtering Its Way Down | Co Founder Jawed Karim Eyes Internet Startups

Whether the success of video sharing website YouTube is pleasing to you or not, it looks like the money could soon...
Leslie Poston
1 min read

Would Video Vetting Ruin YouTube? | Site Founder Steve Chen Claims Immediacy Is Key

Since co-founding YouTube in 2005 along with Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, Steve Chen has seen his site go from a...
Dave Parrack
1 min 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

Flickr Video To Launch In Beta In April | Will Rumored Service Compete With YouTube?

A Flickr video service to compliment and work alongside the brilliant photo sharing service has been rumoured for what seems like...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

With YouTube Growing Fast, How On-Demand Transcoding Helps New Media Storage

On the digital media website Contentinople yesterday, Frank Smith talked about a comment that Philip Inghelbrecht of video sharing site YouTube made...
Brendon Mills
1 min read

YouTube Expands Developer Tools & APIs To Allow External Websites To Interact

For the last few days there has been speculation over what big announcement YouTube were about to make: A deal with...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

How iPhone and YouTube Have Impacted Mobile Users | Frost & Sullivan Interview Part 2

Transcoding on demand for mobile video is starting to play an important part in the growth of online video as the...
Brendon Mills
35 sec read

Watching Web TV While At Work | Businesses Cracking Down On Employees Surfing YouTube

The growing popularity of Internet television isn’t good news for everyone, as businesses are finding to their cost, with falling productivity...
Dave Parrack
1 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

Online Video Regulations In China | Where Even Infidelity Is Censored Not To Exist

Those of us living in the west, be it the USA or Europe, often think ourselves as hard done by in...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Super Bowl XLII Adverts To Be Featured On YouTube and Hulu – But Not The Game Itself

Super Bowl XLII is about to start on traditional television all across America, with people having friends and family over to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Should Video Copyright Laws Be Universal? | The Bizarre Case Starring Uri Geller

Copyright law is one of the most contentious issues around right now, and in no area is this seen greater than...
Jef Pearlman
3 min read

YouTube Video Length Limitation Gets Pushed To Over Nine Hours By Charles Trippy

YouTube has had a well intentioned upload limitation of 100 megabytes, or 10 minutes, for a long time now. Mainly in...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Church of England Goes YouTube | Following In The Queen’s Hallowed Footsteps

It was announced just before Christmas that the British royal family were getting their own YouTube channel, and a key part...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Royal Family Team Up With YouTube | The Queen Unveils ‘The Royal Channel’

Our sister site WebTVHub reported last week on the new YouTube channel completely devoted to the British royal family. But we...
Paul Glazowski
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

Is YouTube The Proper Forum For Human Rights Abuse Videos? The Wael Abbas Case

What is YouTube for? We all know it is there as a means for ordinary people to make and upload clips...
Dave Parrack
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
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Brightcove.tv Gets Canned In Light Of Failure To Beat YouTube At Own Game

By way of sending out a message to all their many users, Brightcove has announced that it is soon going to...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

YouTube Introduces New Anti-Bullying Channel | Could ‘Beatbullying’ Video Messages Help?

Bullying can take many forms, and since the evolution of the web, it has even become a problem online, with many...
Paul Glazowski
2 min read

YouTube To Go High Definition | New Player and High Quality Video Streams On Way

How to describe YouTube in a short, succinct paragraph while truly getting across to the readers how successful a site it...
Paul Glazowski
3 min read

YouTube Canada Launches | How Lame Is It, and Did We Need It In The First Place?

YouTube launched yet another of their localised international versions of the site on Tuesday, at a flashy press conference with YouTube...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

AT&T Introduce ISP Copyright Filtering Technology Called Vobile VideoDNA

The battle for blocking copyrighted materials from being distributed around the web could be about to get even murkier. It was...
Gigi Sohn
2 min read

YouTube Commenters Name Rhys Jones Murder Suspect | Liable For Possible False Allegation?

YouTube is now at the centre of a murder case, after commenters on the video sharing site named the alleged killer...
Dave Parrack
1 min read