newteevee.com - 11/23/2008
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YouTube is hosting its big YouTube Live event right now here in San Francisco. Liz and I are on the UG-scene and will be providing updates throughout the evening. Mainstream stars like Will.I.Am, AKON and Katy Perry are rubbing shoulders with web celebs like Michael Buckley, Tay Zonday and ...
m.youtube.com - 11/18/2008
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m.youtube.com —
YouTube logo Information: YouTube Mobile is a data
intensive application. We highly recommend that you upgrade to...
an unlimited data plan with your mobile service provider to avoid additional charges. Continue 2008 Google Help | Terms and Privacy ...
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YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
mogulus.com - 11/23/2008
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mogulus.com —
As a follow-up to our previous post Who
Powered YouTube Live?, we are glad to publish the...
unofficial peak concurrent viewers for the event. Akamai publishes concurrent live stream metrics for their full network on this page; we monitored it and took ...
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YouTube Live: Unofficial numbers a clear testimony to ...
mediamemo.allthingsd.com - 11/24/2008
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mediamemo.allthingsd.com —
Did you watch YouTube Live last night? Odds
are you didn't. The video site's first attempt at...
a live-streamed event drew a peak audience of 700,000 people. That's a lot for a Web event. But if it was a TV show, it would have been canceled.
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YouTube’s Big Live Debut: Pretty Small
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YouTube Live from San Francisco, but not from Tokyo
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... YouTube did its first live webcast yesterday, when it put on an event in San Francisco. The "acts" were aimed at YouTube meme followers. As the blurb on YouTube's blog put it, you could "get all excited over Will.i.am's appearance; marvel at Chad Vader's original killer conceit; or deconstruct the intrinsic appeal of Will It Blend?" And so on. "We're going all-out to celebrate the best that YouTube's user community has to offer." NewTeeVee covered the event in NTV is Live from YouTube Live: OK, the show is on. Katy Perry just performed ...
Was YouTube Live a Success? That Depends. [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network —
... (and that we confirmed with YouTube), YouTube Live saw about 700,000 simultaneous viewers at the peak of the event on Saturday night. As Peter Kafka notes in a column at All Things Digital, those ...
Paid Distribution Becomes a Mainstay of Web Series [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network —
... . It was reported that Poptub had guaranteed its sponsor, Pepsi, 3 billion impressions in 2008, though the show’s producers later told us that number was actually 1 billion. Still! ...
March Madness! YouTube Gets Live Video Via Silverlight [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network —
... YouTube has not offered live video to its users, in part because it would be a serious infrastructure demand and expense with the site’s massive audience. But we’ve heard from people at the company who were upset they missed out on big live video events like the Obama Inauguration. Not being able to participate in real-time kind of steals the biggest video site in the world’s thunder. YouTube used Akamai to live stream its own user festival to hundreds of thousands of viewers last year, but that seems to have been a one-off. ...
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adweek.com 11/22/2008 — -By Kenneth Hein, Brandweek On Saturday YouTube will stream its first live event. YouTube Live will be held in San Francisco at 5 p.m. The event is meant to reflect the scale and diversity of content on YouTube. Internet born stars like Soulja Boy and ...
Is YouTube the Next Google?
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During the Web 2.0 Summit recently, the Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, pointed out that one of the reasons the world is no longer the same is YouTube. For better or worse, said Mr. Newsom, we ...
Who powered Youtube Live? An Industry Comment
mogulus.com 11/23/2008 — Over the last few days, there has been a lot of speculation in the industry about who will power tonight’s YouTube Live event– whether YouTube will announce their own live service, acquire a live streaming platform, or simply stream the ...
YouTube Plans To Launch Live-Streaming November 22
alleyinsider.com 11/6/2008 — YouTube will launch live-streaming in the style of startups UStream, Justin.TV, Stickam and Mogulus at its November 22 "YouTube Live!" event, a company source who has seen mock ups of the user-interface tells us.
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● High quality YouTube video hack
kottke.org 11/13/2008 — You may have noticed that the video of Burn-E I embedded looked a bit better than a normal YouTube video. YouTube has been quietly offering high-quality versions of some of their videos for quite some time via a "watch in high quality" link just ...
Did YouTube Just Turn On HD For Real?
techcrunch.com 12/5/2008 —
After teasing us for a year with the option to watch “higher quality” videos that weren’t quite high-def, it appears that YouTube is making the switch to HD, at least for some videos that have been uploaded in that quality. ...
YouTube Widescreen
mashable.com 11/25/2008 — YouTube a few minutes ago announced that they’re officially changing the size and aspect ratio of the standard video player on the site.
We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you ...
YouTube lives it up —
CNET News.com 11/23/2008
Video-sharing site offers its first live stream of an event--one designed to celebrate itself and many of the most popular performers on the site.
YouTube has real party for self-made stars —
SFGate: Technology 11/23/2008
The celebrities were everywhere at the YouTube Live event at Fort Mason on Saturday - sipping wine, looking great on camera and chatting just like regular folk. There was Michael Buckley talking a mile a minute and, oh my god, that Esmée Denters is so ...
YouTube virals must play by US ad rules —
The Register 11/24/2008
UK advertising rules may change to close loophole Advertising claims made in videos on YouTube are subject to the same standards of truth and accuracy as ads that appear in traditional media, according to a US advertising watchdog. Such ads can ...
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