Google’s video-sharing giant YouTube has marked its eighth birthday by revealing that 100 hours of content is now uploaded every minute. The YouTube blog says “When YouTube’s site first launched in May 2005, we never could have imagined the endless ways in which you would inspire, inform and entertain us every day. Today, more than 100 hours of video are [...]
Insights taken from the Experian Hitwise online competitive intelligence tool reveal that visits to online video sites now account for five per cent of all online usage compared to four per cent in 2011. UK Internet users are now making over a billion visits a month to video sites, an increase of 16 per cent year on year. In February [...]
UK subscription-free satellite TV service Freesat has revealed that it has sold its 3 millionth product, taking gross retail sales to well over £1 billion, four years after the service first launched in 2008. It also confirmed that YouTube will soon be available on the platform, claimed as a first for free British TV. Freesat added 55,000 new households in [...]
Google’s YouTube is set to start asking users to pay subscriptions to access some of its content starting in the spring. The first such channels could be available around Easter according to reports, with YouTube expected to charge between 60p (€0.74) and £3 a month. The company has held talks with several video producers, asking them to submit applications to [...]
Dailymotion, the world’s second largest video streaming site, is breaking new ground by allowing creative people and organisations to distribute live content for free. This will allow users with valuable material, such as press conferences, concerts, sports events, or fashion shows, to stream their footage live to Dailymotion’s 106 million users. This tool has previously only been available for “Premium [...]
comScore, a specialist in measuring the digital world, has released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 182 million US Internet users watched 38.7 billion online videos in December, while video ad views totaled 11.3 billion. Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing on YouTube, ranked as the top online video content property in December with 153 million [...]
ITN, ITV and C4′s news provider, has launched TruthLoader — a YouTube channel that will carry amateur coverage of hotspots around the world and whose investigations will be led by discussion a dedicated discussion group on the Reddit community. TruthLoader is funded by YouTube’s originals programme (which gives UK producers up to £500,000) and brings ‘professionalised’ video to citizen journalism. [...]
Rightster, the video distribution and monetisation specialist, delivered more than 100 million worldwide views and 100,000 social media shares in the month of September. The company jumped to 11th position in the most recent comScore YouTube Partner Channels rankings (August 2012), up from 16th position three months earlier. The Rightster multi-channel network has grown to encompass 224 channels across many [...]
In a keynote at The Next TV Summit, Alex Carloss, head of entertainment at YouTube/Google, stressed that the company is looking to partner with traditional content providers as well as fund new source of online content as part of its YouTube channel initiative. He argued results have been very promising, with around “20 channels now averaging one million views a [...]
To help protect dissidents using YouTube it has made available a new tool allowing people to obscure faces within videos uploaded onto its platform. “Visual anonymity in video allows people to share personal footage more widely and to speak out when they otherwise may not,” Amanda Conway, a YouTube policy associate, wrote in a statement about the new tool. She [...]
