Tag Archives: YouTube
YouTube Surpasses 21 Billion Video Views In One Month
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) subsidiary YouTube.com has hit 20 billion views in October. This is 50% of all the videos that was watched in the U.S. according to comScore. U.S. Internet users watched 42.6 billion videos in October and YouTube accounted for 20.9 billion of those views. comScore also revealed that YouTube has the highest engagement with users by averaging over 7 hours of video each during the month. [comScore]
YouTube Launches Analytics Service
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) subsidiary YouTube has launched an analytics dashboard for everyone that has an account. You can use the dashboard to view the demographics, playback locations, traffic sources, audience retention, and engagement reports of your viewers. The engagement reports contains information about subscribers, likes and dislikes, favorites, comments, and sharing. If you have a YouTube account, check out the YouTube Analytics page at youtube.com/analytics. [YouTube Blog]
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Disney Movies Are Now Available For Rent On YouTube
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) subsidiary YouTube.com has announced that Disney movies are now available for rent on the video streaming website. These Disney movies are spread across The Walt Disney Studios, Disney Pixar, and DreamWorks Studios.
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YouTube Continues To Move Forward On HTML5 Player
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) subsidiary YouTube has been developing an HTML5 player for streaming videos as part of their plans to offer a substitution to Adobe Flash. The YouTube HTML5 player has the ability to enable annotations and captions. It also lets you copy embedding code and the video URL. The new player on YouTube also has 480p and 1080p options for WebM videos. Full screen on the HTML5 player works if you are using the Firefox nightly build or the Chrome dev channel. [Google Operating System Blog]
Lloyd Partners With YouTube Star Keenan Cahill [VIRAL VIDEO]
Keenan Cahill is a teenager from Elmhurst, Illinois who is best known for lip-syncing songs. Some of the guest artists he had on his videos include 50 Cent, Cody Simpson, Tinie Tempah, and David Guetta. R&B artist Lloyd has decided to work with Cahill in the latest video as he made a cameo for the song “Dedication To My Ex (Miss That).”
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YouTube and Disney Spending $10-$15 Million To Create An Original Video Series
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) subsidiary YouTube and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) is spending $10-$15 million to create an original video series according to The New York Times. The video shorts will be produced by Disney and it will be distributed on a co-branded channel on Disney.com and YouTube. Disney will benefit from getting web traffic from YouTube. The original video content will benefit YouTube because they are competing against websites that specialize in premium video content. YouTube depends heavily on user-generated content for its popularity.
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Categories James A. Pitaro, Robert Kyncl, The Walt Disney Company, YouTube
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“Life in a Day” Gets Added To YouTube [VIDEO]
In July 2010, thousands of people added recorded videos of their lives as part of an experiment called “Life in a Day.” There was about 4,500 hours of total footage that was recorded and uploaded to YouTube. Kevin Macdonald, an Oscar-winning director, and Ridley Scott, created a 90 minute film that showcases what life in a day on Earth looks like. This film appeared at SXSW, Sundance, and a few other film festivals. Now the video is available on YouTube for free. Check out the video below:
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YouTube Getting Over 100 New Channels With Exclusive Content
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) subsidiary YouTube is launching over 100 new channels that contains exclusive video content from various media companies and celebrities. Some of the channels will include content from Thomas Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The Onion, Jay-Z, Ashton Kutcher, Deepak Chopra, and Madonna. Google paid roughly $100 million to get the exclusive content for YouTube.
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“Charlie Bit My Finger” Becomes Gerber Finger Foods Commercial [VIDEO]
The Charlie Bit My Finger video has been watched all over the world over 400 million times. Now Gerber has earned the rights to use the video as a commercial for their new finger foods. Gerber added captions to the viral video and it hit over 200,000 views in a few weeks.
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Movieclips.com Raises $7 Million And Signs A Deal With YouTube
Movieclips.com is an online movie clips search engine website that launched in 2009. It has over 20,000 different clips across libraries from 20th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Universal Pictures. Miniclips has raised $7 million in funding led by MK Capital. Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, Richmond Park Partners, Jeff Clavier, Naval Ravikant, Jeff Kearl, Tom McInerney, Allen DeBevoise and Gordon Rubenstein also participated in this round.
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