Google-owned YouTube is broadening its offerings to publishers and regular users alike, through its latest monetization option – the pay-per-view. For the longest time YouTube has operated through a free video-sharing service, backed up by ads on its site; but lately plans for adding paid options to its slew of services have started to materialize. [...]
Many people each year look for ways to supplement their income, especially in a global economy that seems to be slow to recovery. However, people do not want to take on additional jobs outside the house if they can supplement their income by working at home. One such way to make money at home that [...]
January 15, 2007, Pattie Mallett created an account on Youtube (“Kidrauhl”, son of “Lordrauhl”). January 19, 2007 she uploaded a first video of her son singing. It was for family and friends. A low quality video… Ok you understand now… canadian singer Justin Bieber who is today an international mega star can thank his mother [...]
YouTube has now 4 billion videos viewed every day and 60 hours of video uploaded each minute. This exactly a 25 percent increase in the last 8 months (in May 2011, this was 3 billion views/day and 48 hours of uploads/min). Revenues & Money : “YouTube, which Google acquired for $1.65 billion in 2006, represents [...]
Google just launched Youtube Slam, a fun video-game where you can vote for the best videos in 4 categories and earn points to become the master of Slam. You have nothing to win except the fact that your account will be highly visible in the 4 main pages in users rankings. (not so bad for [...]
Youtube just published the Rewind 2011 : the most popular videos of the year. “Today, we rewind through the videos and channels that absorbed our collective global attention this year. To compile these lists, we looked at global view counts of popular videos uploaded throughout this year, and, in some instances, we aggregated views across [...]
Google is launching Youtube for Schools, Educational Content without distracting music videos or LOL Cats vids. “We’ve been hearing from teachers that they want to use the vast array of educational videos on YouTube in their classrooms, but are concerned that students will be distracted by the latest music video or a video of a [...]
Google has just announced the replacement of Insights by Youtube Analytics, an online analytic tool that’s very useful for video publishers. “You’ve been able to discover who is watching your videos and where they’re coming from for awhile now on YouTube, through Insight. Now we want to make it even easier to learn about your [...]
Google has just updated the new design of Youtube with a layer of Social. The default home page shows subscriptions (center). In the right column are recommended videos. In the left column you have access to all Youtube Channels including Google+ account with videos of your circles that appear in the center of the page. [...]
Youtube has now 2 online video editors : this one (not new) and a new feature that allows to edit videos directly on each video you have uploaded. You can add special effects (background style : sepia, cartoon, black and white, pixelised,…), modify the image (color, light, saturation, contrast), rotate right or left, trim start [...]
YouTube has just launched a ranking of the top 100 most viewed music videos on its video platform. The top videos will be visible on the page youtube.com/music (vertical, right sidebar) and should be updated once a week. All music videos will be ranked including official videos from top singers like Jennifer Lopez or Lady [...]
The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be broadcasted live on YouTube on April 29 for 4 hours, on special youtube page The Royal Channel. There will be also a specific official blog with live comment. We will see the ceremony at Westminster Abbey and the procession to Buckingham Palace. The royal [...]
There are lots of programs and gadgets out there that offer to create MP3 from YouTube videos, and many of them cost money. However, there is a simple, straight-forward, and free way to record YouTube videos on your computer and save them as an MP3 file. Here we’re going to take a look at the [...]
Do you think you have all it takes to become the new Youtube Star that will be viewed by millions of internet users ? [youtube blog]
YouTube was the brainchild of Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The site started out with hundreds of videos that fell into no particular category. In many forms of business there is a negative impact that comes with having no target market in mind. Somehow Hurley and Chen made this work to their advantage. People that [...]
Youtube has launched its online video editor. The concept: you upload your raw videos directly on the Google sharing platform and then work on editing and tuning your masterpiece. It is a very handy tool for those who are not professionals at video editing. For the time being, it is not as powerful as any [...]
Remember young 22 years old korean singer, singing Lady Gaga song with 4 iPhones ? AppleGirl, real name Kim Yeo-hee, just released her first videoclip on Youtube. Apple Girl has now a contract with DreamHigh Entertainment. She is not only cute, she is also so talented, with an extraordinary voice. Good luck Kim, online or [...]
