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YouTube is rolling out six new educational channels focusing on math, science, history, art/culture, and astronomy. The new offerings are a part of their 100 original content initiative, but recently YouTube has made a lot of strides in being a go-to source for education, with Space Lab and YouTube For Schools being announced in the ...
This past January was a good one for Hollywood, although it goes to show that year-over-year comparisons for specific months is a pretty short-sighted way of looking at this particular business, which entirely relies on product. Subjective product. And whenever Hollywood has a comparatively bad month compared to the previous year, it is always the ...
The Wall Street Journal announced it will launch a YouTube channel today that features “soft news” instead of “hard news.” The channel will showcase “Off Duty,” a daily lifestyle show based on the eponymous section of WSJ Weekend, the Journal's Saturday paper. Hosted by Wall Street Journal reporter Wendy Bounds, “Off Duty” will offer on-demand ...
Last week, Philip DeFranco's original YouTube channel, SourceFed, made its debut. Because the guy has over 2 million subscribers, he was able to get quite a few recruits for the new channel, which is opinionated entertainment news, gossip, and current events. This new channel fits DeFranco like a glove, since this is exactly the type ...
This week on The Reel Web we share with you guys several updates that have happened on YouTube that were overlooked, as well as a complete overhaul that's coming to Vimeo's website sometime soon. We also discuss YouTube's new announcement of having 60 hours of video uploaded to their site every minute and we go ...
President Obama seems like a pretty regular guy... someone you could hang out with, even. Most of us never get to meet a sitting U.S. President, let along hang out with one. But today, in just a handful of hours, you can do just that on the White House YouTube Channel, as President Obama hosts ...
Lately it seems like I'm always finding a great example of branded content. If you're an advertiser looking to make a splash, destroying things to make a point seems to be a good thing to try. With Blendtec, they've blasted off with branded content showing their blenders destroy things you don't put into blenders, like ...
20th Century Fox has teamed with Big Frame, a YouTube talent company, to produce videos promoting their new movie Chronicle opening on February 3. And Chronicle is the perfect type of movie to get some YouTube promotion, as it is one of the latest films to use this-is-really-happening video, "found footage," very much like Cloverfield ...
Do you like to browse YouTube videos? I use the Browse page at YouTube an awful lot--it's one of the ways I'm able to stay on top of what's happening in online video. And I've had some personal issues with the layout and design for some time. Today, YouTube updates the browse page design, and ...
We've posted a lot of great infographics over the years. The format, which typically combines statistical information in a fun animated layout, is very popular. People enjoy learning important statistics, but no one wants to feel like their in school. Infographics are a way for the reader to feel like they're learning while also feeding ...
It's that time of year again, when two teams square off for the ultimate crown in professional football. At the same time, advertisers will be squaring off for their own annual Super Bowl competition. Like last year, YouTube is partnering with the network broadcasting the game--in this case, NBC--to bring you the YouTube Ad Blitz, ...
This week I dug through the channels of over 3,000 YouTube subscribers to ReelSEO and identified a few common mistakes that being made that could help you all improve your videos and presence on YouTube. I also picked out a few of my favorite channels and am highlighting them for you guys today. MICROPHONES MENTIONED ...
This week on the Reel Web we cover a lot of new stories surrounding SOPA, PIPA, and especially Vimeo's stance on them. We also talk about the importance of having original content and why Hulu, Netflix, and others are pushing so hard to feature original content on their networks. From this we can learn a few ...
Alexei Oreskovic of Reuters reports that “roughly 60 hours of video is now uploaded to YouTube every minute.” The company also told him that YouTube is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months. There was one other news nugget in Oreskovic’s “exclusive” story: Three billion YouTube ...
Reuters, one of the oldest and most respected news organizations in the world, has joined YouTube and will have a channel dedicated to all the world's news, including finance, politics, and technology. Reuters, much like many of the original channels announced, already has a channel on YouTube and their own website with video. But now, ...
