It seems that YouTube is on a roll as the latest Video Metrix data from comScore has revealed that the online streaming website has passed the 20 billion views mark for the first time. This represents at least 50 percent of all videos watched in the United States. According to comScore, 184 million internet users in the United States watched 42.6 billion in the month of October, 20.9 billion or 49.1 percent of which are from YouTube. This is up from 182 million users in September who watched an average 19.5 hours of video per viewer. The...
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In an effort to enhance its social network, Internet search giant Google has integrated its own Chrome web browser and video sharing website YouTube more deeply into Google+. Vic Gundotra, the company’s senior vice president for engineering, said that Chrome and YouTube can be accessed more easily from the network of Google+. “It’s no secret that YouTube is filled with tons of great content (from inspiring speeches to music videos to honey badgers). We wanted to bring YouTube directly into Google+—as well as make it...
Google-owned YouTube video unit is rolling out 100 channels to compete with cable companies. Video streaming site YouTube has announced that the creation of 100 online video channels will feature original programming that involves celebrities such as pop singer Madonna, actor Ashton Kutcher, former NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal and rapper Jay-Z. The venture, in partnership with Hollywood production companies, online video creators and a number of media companies, will be generating around 25 hours of original programming on the...
Video streaming site YouTube has launched its new movie rental service in the United Kingdom, featuring thousands of movies including Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. British film fans can now rent new movie releases for £3.49 and older movies for between £2.49 and £3.49 through YouTube. The move puts Google to compete directly with Amazon’s LoveFilm service, which claims around 1.6 million subscribers in Europe. The Amazon LoveFilm service makes new releases available to...
This evening received an email from Dan Bull, a self proclaimed former bedroom musician, turned professional musician who has recently created a variety of comedy hits on YouTube and has produced songs for BBC Comedy. He has sent us a link to a very topical video on super injunctions, the song entitled ‘stupid injunction’ is very tongue in cheek but is designed to voice Dan’s opinions which are supported by many others. When asked where he gained his inspiration, Dan explained, “I’m inspired by protest songs...
The Royal Wedding may have come and gone but YouTube is still abuzz with patriotic videos and re-runs of the famous couple’s special day. However, Pippa Middleton is the one that has grabbed the most post wedding attention and a comedic video has been posted on YouTube that shows off her famous asset that set tongues wagging all over the world last week. The video starts off innocently enough in Westminster Abbey and then breaks into song, Mystikal’s aptly titled Shake Ya Ass starts playing as various bottom wiggling scenes from the...
How did you watch the Royal Wedding? There is obviously a good chance that you were one of the estimated 2 billion people (including 34 million Brits) who watched it on the telly, but there were plenty of other high tech options for feeling part of the day. For example, YouTube had a special Royal Channel online showing the BBC pictures. Rather surprisingly it didn’t make it into the top 20 most visited sites of the day, with America’s Next Top Model among the numerous other channels finishing above it. Meanwhile, the YouTube site...
Is it a sign of the times at Yahoo that they have sold on their Delicious service to the people who brought us YouTube? Yahoo bought Delicious back in 2005 but never really got going with it amidst rumours of being unable to support it properly. Now they have sold it on to Chad Hurley and Steve Chen for an unspecified amount, although $5 million has been mentioned. In case you aren’t familiar with it, Delicious is a cloud based social bookmarking service. It has reached a reasonable degree of popularity with users but a few months back...
Roll up, roll up would be video producers, budding singers and any other great undiscovered talents. A new YouTube talent competition could be your first step on the road to fame and fortune. The NextUp scheme just launched by the video site is offering a cool half a million Euros in cash to 25 UK film makers. A €20,000 grant for each winner is the prize in store and to take part you need to be a YouTube partner, which means that you currently make money using the YouTube site. As well as the development cash there is also a course which...
Google is reportedly planning a few new additions to YouTube to the tune of $100 million. The Californian based search giant is planning to create 20 new video channels to capitalize on the growing need for web based shows. This won’t be high end content like the BBC provide but nor will it be the run of the mill content provided by the average user. Apparently the new channels will sit slap bang in between providing regular content up to half an hour in length. The project is a smart move by YouTube as the popularity of connected TV’s,...