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 [...]
Inception Park is a wonderful edited video showing Roller Coasters flying through Buenos Aires in Argentina. The video was made by Fim Director Fernando Livschitz. This is an excellent way to auto-promote himself : hoping he will be contacted by a major hollywood studio for next Big One on US Box Office.
Netflix has taken a lot of hits lately, first changing their pricing structure which resulted in a loss of hundreds of thousands of customers. Then, in a further damaging move they separated the streaming capabilities from disc rentals resulting in even more customers canceling their services. During this time, Redbox proved to be a worthy [...]
Here is a nice infographic brought by Dacast legal streaming service. As you can see by the numbers, this is a Huge Industry : [via]
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 rolled out two updates on Google + Hangouts (=video-chat). First, a new updated application for iOS (iphone/ipad/ipod touch) is now available on iTunes. Second update : screensharing and bigger video player. “- Screensharing: share what’s on your computer screen with everyone in the hangout. This is the first of many extras we’re graduating [...]
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 [...]
For a year, the Quebecer Dominic Boudreault photographed cities the night, from of his Quebec City to Toronto via Montreal, and then Chicago and Manhattan. All together put in this Time Lapse video. The photographer has done an absolutely amazing video, with inspiring music from Hans Zimmer. Equipment used: Camera Canon 5D Mark II.
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]
CamBall is a small video camera for secret agent or for those who want to shoot from their cars or while doing sports. It is the size of a table-tennis (ping pong) ball. The battery lasts 2.5 hours and the video format is 320 x 240 at 25 frames per second. Micro and MP3 player [...]
Our friend Steve Jobs has announced Wednesday the arrival of FaceTime for Mac. FaceTime enables video calls between iPhone 4, iPod touch, and now Mac computers. Plus: www.apple.com/mac/facetime/
How to rig your videos easily? Movie Reshape tool allows you to look like Brad Pitt or Arnold Schwarzenegger running on the beach .. It’s gonna be hard to separate reality if they use this software in movies in the future …
