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Should Google Kill YouTube? | Was The $1.65 Billion Buyout A Total Waste Of Money?

A few days ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke to The New Yorker about the problems in making money on YouTube,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Making Money On YouTube – Google CEO Eric Schmidt Admits He Doesn’t Know How

There has been a lot of talk recently about how YouTube should be making more money than it currently does to...
Dave Parrack
52 sec read

YouTube’s Dumbest Criminal Posted Videos Of His Crimes On Site | Receives ASBO

YouTube is used by all kinds of people, to show off an achievement on a game, a funny incident with their...
Dave Parrack
54 sec read

ABC Updates Online Video Player | Great Improvements On Way But Still No Embeds

ABC made history when it launched the first full-episode online video player in 2006, but since then the service has been...
Dave Parrack
54 sec read

Redlasso Receives Cease and Desist Letter From NBC, CBS, Fox Over Copyrighted Clips

Redlasso is a website which offers bloggers and site administrators the chance to embed video clips from TV shows, news programmes...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Bebo Drives One Billion Video Views A Month | Social Network Creating Original Programming

We learnt yesterday that social music network Last.fm has started creating original video programming to drive traffic to it. These will...
Dave Parrack
42 sec read

Blinkx Shares Rise On Takeover Speculation | Google and News Corp May Be Interested

Blinkx is currently the largest and most advanced Internet video search engine in the world. Something that seems to be of...
Dave Parrack
41 sec read

FORA.tv – YouTube For Thinkers Secures $4 Million Funding | Future In Intellectual Video

FORA.tv is a video sharing site which describes itself as YouTube for thinkers. The San Francisco start-up company concentrates on intellectual...
Dave Parrack
50 sec read

Lycos Cinema Receives Social Upgrades | Can It Compete With Hulu, Joost, BBC iPlayer?

Lycos Cinema launched over a year ago, in an effort to compete with YouTube and Joost. It actually has more in...
Dave Parrack
52 sec read

GodTube – YouTube For Christians Everywhere | Video Sharing Website Raises $30 Million

Just two days I spoke about StartYourTube, a website which allows you to start your own video sharing service, however niche,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

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

Hulu Has Official YouTube Channel | NBC and Fox Network Shows Back On YouTube

When Hulu was launched as a joint venture between NBC and Fox last October, YouTube suddenly became their enemy – NBC...
Dave Parrack
52 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

Metacafe Founders Cash Out | Take $2.5 Million A Piece And Leave Video Sharing Site

Metacafe was once the hottest video sharing site, and although it’s growth has seemed to falter over the past year, it...
Dave Parrack
45 sec read

Sky TV Considering IPTV For Its Picnic Pay TV Service | As Well As A DSL Set-Top Box

BSkyB is looking to launch Picnic, a pay-TV service with Sky Sports 1, Sky Movies, Sky One, a children’s channel and...
Dave Parrack
41 sec read

The End Of YouTube Piracy? | How Promises Made A Year Ago Are Still Not Fulfilled

YouTube has gone beyond everybody’s expectations, and become by far the largest online video resource in the world, and one of...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Man Behind BBC iPlayer Jumps To Kangaroo | Ashley Highfield Heads British Hulu

Ashley Highfield, BBC future media and technology director, and the man who has made the BBC iPlayer so successful in such...
Dave Parrack
43 sec read

Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Back Online With New Admin After Six Months Of Downtime

I didn’t see this one coming at all, in fact I thought Demonoid was dead and buried. But no, six months...
Dave Parrack
44 sec 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

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

Exploring Hulu In Full | Out Of Beta And Officially Launched But Is It Any Good?

Hulu officially launched on Wednesday after an extended and very successful period in beta.  Hulu is a joint venture between NBC...
Gilbert Hammer
2 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

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

TVCatchup Suspends Services After Complaints From Broadcasters Such As BBC, ITV, Channel 4

An advertising funded broadband service which only launched fully at the beginning of January, has already been forced to suspend its...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

CNN Launch iReport.com | Your Stories, Your Videos – A Site For All Citizen Journalists

Although CNN moved in to the world of citizen journalism over 18 months ago with iReport, most of the submissions made by users never...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
8 sec read

Yahoo! Confirms Rumoured Acquisition Of Online Video Platform Maven Networks

Yahoo! may be going through a rough patch at the moment (read understatement of the year), with Microsoft launching a hostile...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

SyncTV | Is It The Viable Alternative To Apple iTunes and Amazon Unbox That We Hoped?

The online television market is growing daily, and new companies are entering the fray regularly, some of which are copycats, and...
Michael Garrett
2 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

Election 2008 TV | A Political Social Network Focussed On Candidate Supporting Videos

With the race for the White House hotting up every day, what can be more needed right now than a social network...
Leslie Poston
1 min read