Google has decided to release a full version of its Moderator service for all YouTube users, this will allow channel owners and viewers to talk about videos and other relevant topics (or completely irrelevant ones as is often the case) on channel pages, as a more structured alternative to the standard video comments. (more…)

YouTube announced this week that they would now be offering a third level of privacy for users to implement on the videos that they upload to the site. (more…)

Google seem to be setting somewhat of a trend in 2010 as they have recently announced their 5th acquisition of the last four months. It was confirmed last week (Friday) that Google have purchased Video Service Episodic. (more…)

2010 has been a year of major change so far, many of the internet’s most well known and well used sites have undergone some sort of re-design, Google owned video streaming site YouTube has picked up the baton and continued the trend this week. (more…)

YouTube’s landmark TV deal with channel 4 has started bearing fruit. The channel signed a three year deal to provide full length shows on YouTube earlier this year and the new section of YouTube, entitled ‘shows’ is set to go live today. The section will include nearly 5’000 videos, 4’000 of which will be full-length programmes. (more…)

You might expect a video streaming site that recently revealed that it is getting one billion video views a week to be making money hand over fist though it hasn’t quite been that simple for video streaming leader, YouTube. The site has struggled to make a return appropriate to its size for years now, actually, it’s failed to make any profit at all. (more…)

Channel 4 have signed a deal with YouTube that will allow the world’s biggest streaming content provider to show its programmes. Both parties are remaining tight lipped on the subject of how much – if any – money changed hands but Channel 4 representatives have indicated that any advertising revenue will be split between the two companies. (more…)

UK regulator, Ofcom has released a report today that reveals the true proliferation of video on demand (VOD). The report reveals that that just under one in three (29% to be exact) of all UK adults regularly watch or download video content. However, the really interesting part is that, in contrast to reports in some media, most of those adults are viewing the content on the entirely legal catch up services offered on services such as iPlayer and, to a lesser extent 4od. (more…)

According to a video blog post from Chad Hurley, one of YouTube’s founders, the world’s most popular streaming video website currently enjoys more than a billion hits per day. The announcement marks the third anniversary of the site’s $1.65 buyout by Google, a price those within the search engine giant have since described as ‘a premium’. (more…)

The guys at YouTube must be wondering whether they’ll ever resolve the issues with music on their site. Not only are they still trying to resolve issues with record companies relating to the showing of music videos on their site, yesterday they lost most of their most popular videos as a result of a separate battle with the Performing Rights Society (PRS), the body responsible for collecting royalties for musicians.
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According to comScore, 14.8 billion online video were watched in January. The principal was, obviously, the Google controlled, YouTube, whose users exceeded 100 million for the first time in the opening month of 2009. Startling as the web viewing figures are, they are part of a longstanding trend and actually represent only a four percent increase on December’s figures.
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In their continuing quest to finally make the massive amounts of money everyone seems to be sure they can, YouTube continues to advance its downloadable videos feature. Selected YouTube partners now have the option to allow downloads, either for a fee via Google checkout, or for free.
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