Topic - Online Video & international
Youku to Recruit 200 Amatuer Filmmakers to Generate Exclusive, Unique Content
Chinese online video sharing site Youku.com plans to recruit 200 amateur video makers from across the country to generate exclusive content for the site, a senior official with Youku.com told Interfax on Dec. 17.
Youku and Mozilla Partner to Enrich Online Video Viewing
Youku, the leading Chinese Internet video website, today announced it has become the sole online video provider embedded in the China Edition of Mozilla Firefox, a highly popular web browser with a 20% worldwide market share.
Youtube Videos Become More Accessible – Auto-Translate Captions in Multiple Languages
One strategy in making your videos more accessible to a wider audience may be to include captions and subtitles in multiple languages with your video. Adding captions and subtitles to your videos not only make your video accessible to those with hearing impairments, but adding them in multiple languages can help to drive additional traffic from non-English speakers and international audiences.
Internet Video Consumption in Germany – New Research from ComScore
comScore released data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that 25.9 million German Internet users viewed more than 3 billion videos online in August 2008. comScore Video Metrix, which was the first video tracking service introduced in the U.S. more than two years ago, has become a leading service for online video measurement and is the only service of its kind in Germany.
Online Video Advertising Market in India Doubles Each Year
Online video media advertising is on an upward rise across the globe including India.
Zoom business head MK Anand said, “Potential online video advertising market in India is estimated at Rs 600 million. Video streams originating from India is doubling year-on-year.”
Online Video Advertising in Russia to Total $3.5M This Year
For the first half of this year, online video ad spending in Russia totaled more than 30 million rubles, roughly equal to $1.2 million USD in revenue according to the Aegis Group’s AdWatch.
Online Video in Spanish Equals Opportunity – A Niche Market of Over 125 Million Users
According to a study conducted by eMarketer, 23 million Hispanics who live in the US (52% of the entire Latino population) are Internet users and their numbers will grow to almost 30 million by the year 2012. On the other hand there are over 125 million Spanish-speaking Internet users based in 21 countries in the Americas and Europe. At the same time the number of broadband access points in Latin America will reach 30 million in the next 4 years: if we add the Spanish-speaking broadband users residing in Latin America, the US and Spain, the number will exceed 60 million by the year 2012.
CCTV Reaches 100M Uniques With Olympic Video Coverage
The 2008 Olympics was full of big news: The most gold medals ever won by a single person, and, for China, an astounding number of gold medals. However, the news doesn’t stop there! According to WebTrends Analytics, more than 6 million visitors a day were hitting Chinese largest broadcaster site, CCTV.com during the Beijing Olympic Games ushering in what Alex Yoder, CEO of WebTrends calls, “… the coming of age for the Internet in China.” What’s more is that the traffic surpassed that of the leading US Broadcaster, NBC and online channel, Yahoo!.
Online Video Usage in Europe Doubles – Now Most Popular Online Activity
28 percent of Europeans now regularly watch online video, more than double the rate in 2006, according to a new report from JupiterResearch, a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on business. The report, ‘Online Video in Europe: Managing TV Audience Fragmentation’ finds that online video is now the most popular online media activity.
Google AdSense Video – Global Expansion Begins
Google AdSense for Video is now available in more countries and languages around the globe. Apparently Google has heard the feedback from AdSense users and has decided to expand Video Units in YouTube for more languages & countries. Initially, the program was available only for the United States, Canada & United Kingdom.
China Invites Web Video Providers To Join Alliance
China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has released an announcement on its official website, welcoming online audio and video service providers from both home and abroad to join China’s Internet Audio & Video Program Service Alliance.
