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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'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 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.
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 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 "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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maker Is Creating Video Destination Site, Doesn't Plan on Killing YouTube
Pepsi Shows Us The Wrong Way To Fake A Viral Video
Vine Catching Up to YouTube In Social Media Engagement
Free Skype Video Messages Now Available On All Platforms
List of Video Search Engines and Video Search Web Sites
H.265 Video Codec Approved, Will it Revolutionize Video?
How to Link YouTube and Google+ Pages, Multi-Admin Management Now Possible
