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Maybe YouTube Isn’t The Money Pit For Google After All | Research Disputes Credit Suisse

Everyone knows YouTube is losing lots more money to run than it’s bringing in, right? Wrong. Sure, a Credit Suisse report...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Gives Users The Chance To Choose Ads | Unfortunately, No Adverts Not An Option

Google is continuing to struggle to make YouTube profitable. All those eyes watching the site should be worth a mint, but...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

BT Threatens BBC iPlayer, YouTube Etc. | Pay Up Or Else Face Bandwidth Throttling

ISPs have been showing concern for the amount of bandwidth used by online video for some time now. However, the first...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

International BBC iPlayer On Way? | BBC and Google Rumored To Be Having Discussions

Could an International version of the BBC iPlayer be on the way? Possibly, if rumors of talks happening between Google and...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube XL – Streamlined YouTube For TV

The number of people watching online video on televisions is growing rapidly. And with YouTube being the largest online video site,...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

PRS Lowers Streaming Music Video Royalty Rates | YouTube Row Should Now End

The Performing Rights Society (PRS) collects royalties for music artists, and it generally does a good job. Except when it pushed...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Boasts 20 Hours Of Video Uploaded Every Minute | But It Still Wants More UGC

To hear that YouTube is the most popular, most visited, and most content-filled online video site on the Web is hardly...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Full-Length Shows Coming To YouTube UK? | The Kings Of Short-form Look To Long-form

YouTube has, for a long time, been the king of short-form content. And despite various pretenders to its crown, this looks...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Is YouTube Really The Failure Time Describes It As Being? | Monetarily Yes, Otherwise No

YouTube is the most trafficked online video site in the world, one of the most trafficked Web sites of any kind...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YooouuuTuuube Turns Any YouTube Video Into A Mosaic Wall | Online Video Becomes Art

A hell of a lot of us use YouTube on a daily basis to watch videos, and for the most part...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Vevo Names Rio Caraeff As CEO | Universal YouTube For Music Videos Starts To Take Shape

Vevo, the joint venture between Universal and YouTube which is aiming to be a Hulu for music videos is starting to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Cracks Down On In-Video Product Placement Adverts | Wants Action For Itself

Product placement has been a mainstay of movies and television shows for years now. But with some content creators utilizing the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Online Video To Cause Internet Brownouts From 2010? | Blame YouTube & BBC iPlayer

The growth in online video, both in popularity and the number of services available, has been great to see. And it’s...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Football League’s YouTube Copyright Claim | BBC Journalist’s Self-Shot Video Clip Taken Down

Google has had to get tough on copyright violations on YouTube. Fair enough. But surely removing a video clip featuring footage...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Susan Boyle Clips Making No Revenue Due To YouTube and ITV Arguing Over Advertising

Old media and new media are often uncomfortable bedfellows. The old knows it needs the new but cannot quite give up...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Susan Boyle Shows The Power Of Viral Video | Britain’s Got Talent Singer Is An Online Star

The chances are you have heard of Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer featured on Britain’s Got Talent recently. If you’re outside...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Google Acts To Protect YouTube Commenters From South Korea’s Cyber Defamation Law

The idea of freedom, and rights to privacy and anonymity differ greatly from country to country. While those of us who...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

VEVO Music Video Site Announced | YouTube and Universal Do Deal – Other Labels Talking

Music videos have been an important part of YouTube for a good while now, being amongst the most-watched videos on the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube To Acquire Full-length Movies From Sony? | From UGC To Premium Continues

Google has got to think big if it’s to turn YouTube from the money pit it has become into something profitable...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Analysts Claim YouTube On Course For Massive Loss In 2009 | The Site Impossible To Monetize?

On the day that it’s rumored Google is looking to buy Twitter, analysts claim that the company is set to make...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Disney Comes To Hulu and YouTube

Disney has suddenly become a key member of the battle for viewers raging between Hulu and YouTube, by doing deals with...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Redesign On Way? | Google-owned Online Video Site To Get A Hulu Makeover

Google has been trying to turn YouTube into a sleeker, slicker, money-making site for nigh on a year now. Although it’s...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Violence Video | Freedom Of Expression – Not Likely

No-one living in China will be able to access YouTube for the foreseeable future after the site was mysteriously blocked in...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Rickrolling Songwriter Pete Waterman Hates YouTube | Rick Astley Tune Made £11 In 2008

Three issues have converged this week: YouTube’s inability to make revenue, the continuing fight between the PRS and YouTube, and Rickrolling....
Dave Parrack
2 min read

PRS Steps Up Row With YouTube | Billy Bragg, Radiohead, and Bono All Argue The Case

The beginning of last week saw YouTube block access to music videos from the UK. This happened because the existing deal...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

YouTube Blocks Music Videos In U.K. | PRS Accused Of Holding Video Site To Ransom

YouTube users in the U.K. are going to have trouble watching their favorite music videos on the site for the foreseeable...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

YouTube Music Video Site Edges Nearer | ‘Vevo’ Would Push Ad Revenues Skywards

Music videos are an integral part of YouTube, but the record labels which provide them want more than just a few...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

White House Drops YouTube For President’s Weekly Address Over Privacy Concerns

Google, the owner of YouTube, is a sucker for information. It lives only because of data it collects about all of...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Sony Music Videos Staying On YouTube | First Major Record Label To Agree A New Deal

YouTube is very important to the music industry, and the music industry is very important to YouTube. It’s a symbiotic relationship...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Download YouTube Videos – Now Official | Google Offering Free and Paid-for Downloads

Since its inception, YouTube has been a purely Web-based affair. You visit the site, watch a video or two and then...
Dave Parrack
1 min read