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Dailymotion launches gaming platform

Orange’s video streaming platform Dailymotion has announced the launch of Dailymotion Games, a new live-streaming platform dedicated to gaming. The website, games.dailymotion.com, offers the gaming and electronic sports community a custom-built environment for viewing, sharing, uploading and streaming personal gaming and gaming competitions. The company says it is  a “move into a strong sector”. Gaming […]

January 16, 2015From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Vloggers must label advertorial content

Video bloggers (‘vloggers’) must make it clear when they are paid to promote products, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has warned. The new guidance was issued following an investigation carried out by kids-focused news service BBC Newsround. Several UK vloggers were paid to praise Oreo biscuits, but none of the videos were labelled as adverts. […]

November 26, 2014

Minecraft YouTube videos near 50bn views

Online video firm Octoly has published a report showing that by June 2014, videos featuring content from video-game Minecraft had been watched 30.8 billion times, with only 183 million of those views coming from the channel of Mojang, the game’s publisher. That’s nearly three

November 24, 2014

YouTube considers ad-free subs model

YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki, has said that YouTube is considering new ways to charge viewers for watching, as an alternative to seeing the advertising that has been YouTube’s main business model until now. “YouTube right now is ad-supported, which is great because it has enabled us to scale to a billion users; but there’s […]

October 28, 2014

4.4bn views of YouTube games channels in Sept

YouTube games channels have become one of the most popular categories on Google’s online video site, with the 100 biggest receiving nearly 4.4 billion video views in September alone – up from 3.5 billion views in May, a According to a chart from industry site Tubefilter, based on data from analytics firm OpenSlate, YouTube’s biggest […]

October 22, 2014

YouTube plans Fan Funding

YouTube has revealed plans for channel owners to make money by soliciting donations from their viewers. YouTube Fan Funding will be tested soon with a limited number of channels in the US, Mexico, Japan and Australia, with YouTube users in those countries able to apply for a space on the test scheme. “Fans will be […]

June 30, 2014

ILOOK turns YouTube channels into TV apps

ILOOK has launched as a new OTT pay-TV platform for YouTube channels. The platform instantly converts YouTube channels into mobile TVapps that behave like television networks. Through this easy-to-use technology, anyone—amateur or celebrity personality—can now have their own TV network without the traditional barriers and regulations. To create a TVapp, users can log in to […]

June 9, 2014

Musicians attack YouTube fees

Musicians want the EU to intervene in a row over the rates YouTube is offering small music labels to include them in a new service. They are accusing YouTube business of trying to “strong-arm” independent labels into accepting low fees. Impala – a body representing Europe’s indies – is spearheading the complaint. YouTube has long […]

June 4, 2014

YouTube to acquire Twitch for $1bn

Video game streaming service Twitch looks set to be acquired by YouTube for about $1 billion. Twitch was launched in June 2011 by Justin.tv co-founders Justin Kan and Emmett Shear and focuses on live video game streams and eSports broadcasting. The site boasts more than 45 million visitors per month and topped 1 million monthly […]

May 19, 2014

YouTube still top second screen site

Despite a relative drop in visit share of 8.9 per cent over the last year in the US, YouTube is still by far the video site most frequently visited from a desktop computer with a 58.77 per cent share of visits among a custom aggregate of video-rich sites, according to

April 23, 2014