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mashable.com - 3/3/2009

White House Says No to YouTube

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The official White House site used to rely on YouTube for video hosting, but now they’ve apparently switched to a generic video player , delivered by Akamai’s content delivery network. While there’s no official explanation of this move on the site, Cnet’s Chris Sogoian ...

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news.cnet.com - 3/2/2009

White House ditches YouTube after privacy complaints

— news.cnet.com — Responding to complaints by privacy activists, the White House has quietly abandoned YouTube as the provider of... the embedded videos on the president's official home page. With the release of the latest weekly video address , the White House has ... (more) White House ditches YouTube after privacy complaints

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bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/3/2009

White House Denies It Is Shunning YouTube

— bits.blogs.nytimes.com — The White House says its decision not to use YouTube to stream President Obama's weekly address was... a "test." (more) White House Denies It Is Shunning YouTube

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comscore.com - 3/4/2009

YouTube Surpasses 100 Million U.S. Viewers for the First Time

— comscore.com — Americans' Time Spent Viewing Jumps 15 Percent versus Previous Month RESTON, VA, March 4, 2009 – comScore... (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released January 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that ... (more) YouTube Surpasses 100 Million U.S. Viewers for the First ...

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White House Didn't Ditch YouTube
Tech Daily Dose — The blogosphere was abuzz Monday over President Barack Obama's weekly video address -- not because of the content (an explanation of the budget outline he sent to Congress) -- but because footage of the four-minute speech was not embedded on the White House Web site from YouTube. The video was instead presented on a generic video player leading some to believe that the administration was distancing itself from the popular Google-owned video sharing site, which has been under pressure lately for how it tracks users' Web ...