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Even Rocky Had A Montage: Social Star Awards Release Epic Montage Video

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The Starcount Social Star Awards are on May 23 and they're getting serious: YouTube stars help Jesse Heiman become a YouTube great through the "most epic montage ever montaged." You know it's on when the montage happens. Don't think for one moment it isn't on with a montage.

YouTube Live Stream Opens for Even More Creators

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You got an account in good standing? 1,000 subscribers? You're set up with SMS verification? You too can start Live Streaming YouTube in a few weeks. Right now, many creators should be able to see an "Enable" button that gets them closer to live nirvana (the state of being, obviously not the band).

ABC Makes Live TV Possible on Any iOS Device

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ABC is making their live broadcasts available through their "Watch ABC" app, which is being regarded as a move to combat embattled live-streaming service Aereo. ABC becomes the first major network to make an app available to broadcast all their shows live.

Netflix Loses A Chunk of Content As Studios Switch Alliances

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Netflix just lost Warner Bros., MGM, and Universal from its streaming archive, as those studios have now decided to move to Warner Archive Instant. The move illustrates the difficulty a rental service has (not to mention the difficulties consumers have) when it comes to all the different choices created by exclusivity.

Congress Gets YouTube Live Stream

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The highly-coveted YouTube Live Stream is being made available to Congress. How will politicians use this new tool to their advantage? Will they use it at all? Who will want to watch politicians talk about anything for an extended period of time? We shall soon see.

Coachella 2013 Continues YouTube Live Streaming Train

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Coachella 2013 will be hitting YouTube again, and continues a tradition I hope never ends: live events being able to be found from the comfort of your own home. This year's festival takes place starting Friday, April 12-Sunday April 14 and streaming live from Indio, CA.

The YouTube Live Stream Tease: Game Developers Conference Causes Rumors

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There are some whispers about the availability of YouTube Live Stream for everyone. No, no...we must settle down. Only people who already have it can use it, and it's merely improvements to the service as-is. Still, we'll discuss why this rumor took shape.

YouTube Working on Adaptive Streaming for Mobile and TV

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YouTube is working on adaptive bitrate streaming for mobile and TV, because buffering is awful. Buffering and other kinds of interruption caused $2.16 billion in lost revenue last year for the online video industry, and people tend to leave after a couple of seconds of bad video.

YouTube to Launch Music Subscription Site Soon?

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Lots of talk about subscription channels lately in YouTube Land. Today, Fortune is reporting that YouTube plans to launch a Spotify-style service on their huge video destination site soon, like perhaps by the end of the year. It's no surprise they're thinking about it, since YouTube is, of course, a large music discovery site.

Low Quality Video Caused $2.16 Billion in Damages to the Bottom Line in 2012

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It's something that we all should know at this point: low quality video will turn your viewers off in a heartbeat.  And we're not talking just poor production values, we're talking buffering, slow startup time, and low resolution due to bitrate issues.  According to a ...

Record 3 Million People Streamed Super Bowl XLVII

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The continuing smart move to allow people to stream the Super Bowl was once again justified this past Sunday as 3 million people watched the Super Bowl online, while the big game featuring the 49ers and Ravens took no ratings hit whatsoever and was the ...

2012 Video Metrix Shows Viewing Stagnant, Exploding Video Advertising

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Since I went through all the trouble of making a set of cool charts and graphs to track the whole year of comScore's Video Metrix for 2012, I thought I would also take the time to do a bit of post-year analysis. While there were ...

Online Video Weekly News Round Up - CES 2013 Edition

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It's CES week and the press releases already started pouring forth on Monday. Since I won't be at CES this week I'll just compile all the interesting ones into this news round up for you. Some interesting things in terms of integration and TV everywhere ...

The New Digital Video Landscape - Streamed Netflix as a Cable Service?

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Netflix and Cablevision announced a deal at CES this week that could have far-reaching repercussions for online video giants. Basically, Cablevision has signed on with Netflix's Open Connect program and that could mark a drastic change in the relationship between MSO's and the streaming video ...

WeVideo's New Cloud-Based Editor is So Simple, Even a Marketer Can Edit Video

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While we were at Streaming Media West last month, we took some time to catch up with WeVideo, the amazingly cool cloud-based video editing people, and found out details about some very neat new features that they've just recently launched as part of their new ...

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