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YouTube Talks Up Social Side
YouTube wants you to know that it's not just a place for individuals to watch videos. This afternoon, the site released some…
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Holiday Shoppers Turning To Social Media And Internet
Digital technologies continue to drive a new approach to shopping, with social media and mobile phones becoming key influencers this holiday season, according to a new survey of holiday retail spending and trends by Deloitte. Social media is gaining traction with 17 percent of consumers planning to use social media during their holiday shopping, and 60 percent plan to use it to find discounts, coupons…
Google Okay With Blocking News Corp.
In a recent interview we wrote about this morning, Rupert Murdoch indicated that News Corp. may block search engines from indexing its sites. Now, it doesn't exactly look like Google's going to offer money to him (or throw a fit) in response, as the search giant's more or less replied by saying "fine."
MySpace Losing $1 Million Per Month On Empty Offices
Don't be shocked if ads for 420,000 square feet of office space start popping up all over MySpace. It seems that the social networking company no longer intends to use a particular facility, but until it can unload the space, has gotten stuck paying over $1 million per month.
Google Gives Users a Way to Lock SafeSearch
Google has launched a new way to lock SafeSearch. What this accomplishes is, users will have to enter their password to change the setting, and Google Search results will be visibly different than when SafeSearch is not locked. Google demonstrates how to to lock SafeSearch with the following short clip:
Has YouTube Found the Right Ad Solution?
YouTube has begun testing a new kind of ad format on some of its videos - skippable pre-rolls. These ads let users choose whether or not they want to watch the ad as it appears at the beginning of a video. YouTube says that when it first began testing in-stream ads a couple years ago, abandonment rates on videos were as high as 70%. They…
