2012 will be a watershed year for the media industry that will see a decline in traditional TV consumption, according to Rich Greenfield of analyst firm BTIG. “We believe 2012 will be a watershed year for the media industry and serve as a historic inflection point for traditional TV consumption,” he writes in a blog […]
To complement its launch of TV channels YouTube, Google has launched a significant redesign of the video site for a more TV-like feel, with customisable channels. In October, Google announced that YouTube would be expanding its original content with plans to launch some 96 new video channels over the next year from a variety of […]
ComScore has released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 184 million US Internet users watched online video content in October for an average of 21.1 hours per viewer. The total US Internet audience viewed 42.6 billion videos, representing an all-time high. Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as […]
A UK family has been paid £100,000 (€117,000) by YouTube after a family video went viral. Howard Davies-Carr is the dad of Charlie and Harry — who became famous through the “Charlie bit my finger – again!” video originally made for their godfather. Since Davies-Carr posted the clip on the file-sharing website it has been […]
Up to 50 per cent of all video ads served on YouTube are now skippable says the company. YouTube introduced the skippable format, In-stream, last December as the first of a series of interactive video ad formats launched under the TrueView brand. The In-stream format lets viewers skip the ad after five seconds and is […]
Admitting that the initial version of Google TV “wasn’t perfect”, Google has announced a software update aimed at providing a better user experience. Writing in the Google TV blog, Mario Queiroz, Vice President Product Management, and Vincent Dureau, Director of Engineering, note that with over three billion views a day, sites such as YouTube are […]
With parent company Google revealing a software update to its Google TV service, YouTube has announced the arrival of a range of channels aimed at bringing an even broader range of entertainment for the site’s users. Writing in the official YouTube blog, Robert Kyncl, Global Head of Content Partnerships, suggests that “wonderful things happen when […]
In September 2011, the UK Internet population made over 785 million visits to online video websites – an increase of 36 per cent year-on-year, according to analysis from competitive intelligence firm Experian Hitwise. According to Experian’s report – Online Video: Bringing Social Media to Life – the majority of growth in this space has been […]
Microsoft has recovered access to its You Tube channel after it was hacked over the weekend. Graham Cluley of security firm Sophos has reported that Redmond’s YouTube page had been hacked. All of Microsoft’s videos were taken down and replaced with videos calling on other YouTube users to upload their own or provide sponsorship. While […]
Sesame Street’s YouTube channel has been taken offline after hackers uploaded pornographic videos. A message posted alongside the adult videos stated: “Who doesn’t like porn kids?” The Sesame Street account was taken offline within 20 minutes of the problem being spotted. YouTube said: “Our Community Guidelines prohibit graphic content. As always, we remove inappropriate material […]