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YouTube Rewinds 2011, Tallies Top Videos

YouTube Rewinds 2011, Tallies Top Videos

  YouTube has released its most viewed videos of 2011, and the results will probably not entirely surprise you. One notable announcement pertains to viewing stats- according to YouTube’s blog, more than a trillion videos (1,000,000,000,000) were watched worldwide, which […]

Video Ads Now Make Up 15% Of Viewed Online Video Content

Video Ads Now Make Up 15% Of Viewed Online Video Content

While watching your favorite clips on YouTube or your favorite TV series and movies on Hulu might make up a bulk of your online video views a new study by comScore shows that 15% of all videos viewed are actually […]

YouTube For Schools Launches, Promises ‘World of Educational Content’

YouTube For Schools Launches, Promises ‘World of Educational Content’

YouTube has a wealth of content that is of interest to and useful for schoolkids, with enhanced tutorials, detailed explanations of math concepts, and visual information on about every single concept you can imagine under the sun. It also has […]

YouTube Redesigns Homepage, Adds Better Social Integration

YouTube Redesigns Homepage, Adds Better Social Integration

In their ever increasing attempt to bring their web properties up to date Google on Thursday rolled out a complete revamped YouTube homepage that features a bigger emphasis on social integration. Visitors to the site will now notice a center […]

Clevver to Get Three New YouTube Channels

Clevver to Get Three New YouTube Channels

Last month, it was announced that YouTube was getting nearly 100 new channels featuring premium programming, and Clevver Media is one of a handful of production companies that will have three channels on the service. Bedrocket Media, BermanBraun, Demand Media, Electus, IconicTV, and Maker Studios […]

Disney, YouTube Broker Movie Rental Deal

Disney, YouTube Broker Movie Rental Deal

With all the hand-wringing over Netflix and Hulu, it’s easy to forget YouTube is all up in the film-streaming business as well. But they are, and expect to hear a bit more about it as more channels launch and the […]

YouTube’s ‘Annoying Orange’ Headed to Cartoon Network

YouTube’s ‘Annoying Orange’ Headed to Cartoon Network

The nearly two-year-old web series “The Annoying Orange,” which is YouTube’s eighth most subscribed channel, is making the leap to TV. Tubefilter notes that word the show was about to jump to the small screen has been bandied about for […]

YouTube and Disney join forces to bring original content to the web

YouTube and Disney join forces to bring original content to the web

YouTube has been making some pretty interesting moves lately as it tries to make its video service more than just a stopping point to watch Internet memes or cat videos. As it announced the other week it is setting aside […]

IGN Launches Gaming Centric YouTube Channel, START

IGN Launches Gaming Centric YouTube Channel, START

As buzz builds surrounding YouTube’s new Channels initiative, one of the upcoming channels has been revealed to be a gaming-centric initiative called START, from gaming media network IGN. According to a post on IGN’s site, START will be populated with […]

Google Puts Up $100M, Close to Finalizing Original Content Deals For Channels

Google Puts Up $100M, Close to Finalizing Original Content Deals For Channels

Does anyone hear a far off tapping noise? Is that… someone driving the final nails in the coffin of exorbitant cable bills? Google’s YouTube is working out the details of a deal to pour $100 million into some deals for […]

YouTube Adds 2D to 3D Conversion, Drops 15 Minute Limit For Some

YouTube Adds 2D to 3D Conversion, Drops 15 Minute Limit For Some

YouTube has continued its push to enhance the service’s capabilities for users, adding some new features announced in a post on the YouTube blog. One of the new enhancements will allow for longer viewing of YouTube clips, as the 15 […]

YouTube Adds Quick-Fix Editing Features to Simplify Changes to Uploaded Videos

YouTube Adds Quick-Fix Editing Features to Simplify Changes to Uploaded Videos

In the past, editing a YouTube video after it was published would require a re-upload, causing links to break and interrupting a clip’s popularity. But that is changing with an announcement from the company on their blog that users will […]

Google, Fox News Team Up to Host Presidential Debate

Google, Fox News Team Up to Host Presidential Debate

Right here would be the place for a cheap “don’t be evil” joke, but I’ll let you fill in the blank. Google, via YouTube, is teaming up with… newschannel… Fox News to host a presidential debate for GOP candidates later […]

YouTube Launches Movie Rentals in Canada

YouTube Launches Movie Rentals in Canada

The internet’s largest video site has a movie rental service, you know- a service which is now available in Canada. (As well as the US, YouTube reminds us in a blog post.) The service expanded its library of titles in […]