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YouTube Is Slashing Prices to Attract Advertisers for NewFront Money

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In the effort to attract more advertisers at this year's NewFronts, YouTube is learning from the mistakes it made last year and being more flexible. While YouTube thought they had all they needed with the Original Channels Initiative last year, the focus will be more on content that is doing well rather than what simply has promise.

YouTube Finally Lets Go of the '301' View Count...Sort Of

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YouTube's view counter stops at 301 when a video gets a ton of views. It has been like that forever, and many curious types wondered why a video had 301 views and way more likes/dislikes than it should. Well, now, YouTube has added a little something to alleviate the confusion...sort of.

Vimeo Redesigns On Demand Page for Better Monetized Video Discovery

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Vimeo has changed their On Demand page to make it easier to find works that are monetized. They are sorted by a curation process called "Vimeo Selects," and also by genre, including spotlights and other fun categories.

March 2013 Comscore Ranking: A Record 13.2 Billion Ads Viewed

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The March 2013 comScore shows a lot more of the same, with a record amount of ads being watched last month...actually a bonkers amount of ads, blowing away all previous months by a wide margin. And that's likely to continue if the projections for video ads this year are to be believed.

YouTube to Have Star-Studded 'Comedy Week' in May

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YouTube is going to have a good ol' fashioned Comedy Week starting May 19. There will be all kinds of celebrities, Hollywood and YouTube alike, doing live performances, stand-up, pranks, collaborations, musical performances, and more.

Psy's 'Gentleman:' Sophomore Effort Soars, Breaks Records

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PSY's "Gangnam Style" is at 1.5 billion views an counting. Really, his next effort, "Gentleman," had nowhere to go but up based on all the goodwill generated by his first song. The second video mirrors the success we see from a lot from sequels in the movie industry.

8 Years Ago Today, This Boring Video Upload Started a Revolution

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YouTube's first video played 8 years ago today. Founded by Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley, and Steve Chen to share videos with people far away, it obviously kind of caught on. And it continues to grow and change and has become life itself for many.

Vimeo Launches Brand Creator Fund to Join Brands and Filmmakers Creatively

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Vimeo is introducing the Brand Creator Fund, a new feature where they will partner with brands to find filmmakers in their community to shoot long-form content. It looks like Vimeo is getting in the crowdsourcing game to generate content for brands.

YouTube Mix Suggestion Attempts to Get You Hooked Even More on YouTube

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YouTube Mix is a new experimental video discovery option on YouTube that shows up on the right-side suggestion box column. Now, YouTube is generating playlists of all those videos you click through one-by-one and streamlining the process.

Will You Be Winking Google Glass Into Operation?

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Google Glass developers have found an interesting piece of code to look at and wonder about: winking. Apparently, the new Google Glass will have some sort of "winking" option that will likely give users the ability to wink photos. But we all know that's probably not all it will be if it's true and it takes off.

Annoying Orange Will Get 2nd Season on Cartoon Network May 16

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Despite a nearly universal professional loathing of Annoying Orange, the show has proved to be a huge hit on Cartoon Network and is getting a second season starting on May 16. Why is that, you ask? Well, there's the matter of boys aged 6-14. That's why.

Rising Second Screen Engagement For iPlayer, UK TV Ads

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Second screen engagement in the UK continues to have a positive impact on the viewing public as they turn to their mobile and tablet devices, not only to watch on demand TV but to interact with brands that are pushing their social media presence via TV advertising.

Video Sharing Data Shows We Are All Bostonians Now

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The Boston Bombings was an awful incident, and as usual, video was there. In fact, it played a key role in the eventual nabbing of the suspects. The videos on YouTube were shared all over the place and truly made people feel "one" with Boston.

The Week In Video: The Internet Is a Bad Mad Thing. Also, Psy

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In our weekly look back at the news in online video we cover the plans to go HTML5 from Netflix, how the American Family Association is up in arms over Kmart and how Psy has done something that we are all going to watch eventually, you know it.

Viacom Comes Up Short Against Google/YouTube In Court Once More

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YouTube-Viacom: Round II went to YouTube thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Because YouTube has policies in place that take down copyrighted material when they are told about it, a Federal Court has denied Viacom's appeal.

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