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China's Baidu is purchasing video portal PPS and merging it with their iQiyi platform to create the largest video company according to mobile users and watch time. The merger takes place not so long after Youku and Tudou merged to become an online video behemoth.
The long-rumored YouTube paid subscription channels may be coming as early as this week, according to various reports. We've been hearing about the possible paid channels for several months now, so this is as good a time as any.
YouTube is making minor improvements to uploading. You will now get an e-mail notification when your video has finished uploading. Also, YouTube is going to play the waiting game with public videos and only publish when you're ready so you can put in all your SEO before it goes live.
It's been a very busy week for NewFronts, with AOL, Yahoo, Crackle and Hulu all announcing new and original online video content for the coming year. Meanwhile, YouTube told us why they were better than TV and Red Bull Stratos took home a clutch of Webby Awards.
Vimeo Demand will be getting their first feature film on June 28, called Some Girls. Written by Neil LaBute and directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer, the movie stars Kristen Bell, Adam Brody, Jennifer Morrison, Mia Maestro, and Emily Watson.
Really? 6 billion hours a month? How do we have time to do anything at that rate? Anyway, YouTube is announcing in the middle of NewFront Week that the amount of hours we spend on YouTube has increased by 50 percent from 4 billion to 6 billion hours a month, and that's crazy.
PepsiCo are the latest company forced to pull their advertising campaign after complaints about the promotion of racial stereotyping and the lighthearted depiction of violence against women. The ad has been taken down but PepsiCo but has created a huge amount of controversy for the brand.
LinkedIn, the professional connection site, is now adding rich media into the mix, which includes video. When it comes to professional connections, appearances can be important. And what better way to introduce yourself to a potential employer or someone you'd like to know in the professional world than through video?
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.
Major League Baseball has always been stubborn when it comes to finding classic clips and baseball highlights on YouTube. They take down everything someone tries to upload of its sport, and weren't too keen in allowing anyone to see them legally. Now, they're embracing YouTube...but there are still some issues.
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.
The IAB has a study that shows that 45 million unique visitors from the USA watch Online Professional Online Video. This is video that is produced solely for online and is never meant to be watched on TV. The numbers come out as the NewFronts take place this week in New York.
Ray William Johnson left Maker Studios back in October 2012, and then...things got ugly. Johnson is claiming that Maker Studios is holding his AdSense account and won't give it back. And now that the original contract has expired, he says he still hasn't gotten it. RWJ to Maker: Lawyer up.
There were some eyebrows raised when the Tribeca Film Festival announced a new category for content produced by Vine, but the winning videos show just how innovative and creative filmmakers can be, even when asked to work with such tight restrictions. Let's take a look at the winning entries.
In our round up of the weekly news stories in online video we learn that Netflix now has more U.S. subscribers than HBO and how their new package aims for more family friendly subscription service. We are excited about the first Google Glass apps to be announced as well as wondering what took a hacker so long to jailbreak the device.
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