informationweek.com - 12/21/2008
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In a move likely to pique the interest of video news organizations, YouTube also added three new video landing pages.
news.cnet.com - 12/19/2008
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news.cnet.com —
YouTube's traffic machine may finally be turning into
a cash machine. For the first time, there are
signs that YouTube is driving significant revenue for itself and some of the video site's partners. In an interview with CNET News this week, Rio ...
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Universal Music seeing 'tens of millions' from YouTube
techcrunch.com - 12/19/2008
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techcrunch.com —
Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter
of all Google search queries in the U.S., according
to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which was released on Thursday night, breaks out the number of ...
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ComScore: YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google Searches
youtube.com - 12/20/2008
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youtube.com —
Every day we work with the music community
to license your favorite music for you to use
on YouTube. But music licensing is very complicated. The right to use a single song often requires permission from multiple owners, particularly when it comes to ...
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The Ups and Downs of Music Licensing for YouTube
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YouTube adds more HD vids and three new landing pages
Boy Genius Report —
Most of you have noticed by now that YouTube has made some dramatic changes to its site. The video screen now accommodates widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio for HD) and the “Watch in high quality” links will also include “Watch in HD.” This is pretty good news in terms of the direction the site is heading in since competing video sites like Hulu are also showing videos in high definition. YouTube says upcoming filtering options will include the ability to search HD videos so users don’t have to rummage through search results for them. In addition to HD videos and the ability to filter them, YouTube will be adding three new landing pages: youtube.com/music, ...
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readwriteweb.com 11/23/2008 — Anything that can be a video will be a video
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 ...
Paid Downloads are Coming to YouTube
readwriteweb.com 2/13/2009 — Alex Chitu spotted a new 'purchases' section in his YouTube account today and YouTube just made it official : YouTube's partners can now offer their videos for paid downloads. While Google has always given its partners the option to offer downloads ...
YouTube: A Money-Maker For Music Labels, But What About Google?
paidcontent.org 12/19/2008 — YouTube is driving more than traffic to music labels like Universal Music Group. Rio Caraeff, EVP of UMG's eLabs, told CNET that YouTube is adding " tens of millions of dollars " to the recording company's bottom line: "(YouTube) is not like radio, ...
White House Says No to YouTube
mashable.com 3/3/2009 — 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 ...
Google Puts Tunes From YouTube a Click Away
nytimes.com 10/8/2008 — SAN FRANCISCO In its continuing effort to find a way to make money from its YouTube unit, Google introduced on Tuesday a type of e-commerce ad that YouTube users can click to buy digital goods from Apple ’s iTunes or Amazon.com . Under the new ...
YouTube Tests HD Videos
readwriteweb.com 11/20/2008 — According to a report by Wired's Meghan Keane , YouTube is testing stereo sound as a default option for videos and is also offering very high quality HD versions of a small selection of clips. We weren't able to find a lot of videos that were encoded ...
First Look at YouTube on the Google Phone
newteevee.com 10/16/2008 — Craig Rubens and I had a chance to play with YouTube on the new Google Android-powered T-Mobile G1 today. Here’s a little video we made of our walkthrough, for which we also brought along an iPhone 3G.
Our takeaways:
- The Android ...
YouTube Making Universal Music Money–What about Google?
marketingpilgrim.com 12/22/2008 — Well, it looks like the most popular video site on the Internet is making somebody money—but it might not be Google. Universal Music Group reports that YouTube is making them “tens of millions of dollars.”
Rio Caraeff, executive ...
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