YouTube’s Partner Program has, as a general rule, allowed in only content creators who produce original and heavily viewed clips on a consistent basis. This was a smart and safe approach. But it’s an approach that also excluded a lot of very popular one-off videos, and YouTube’s now seeking to correct the problem.
Online Video Viewing Reaches Record Audience
More than 157 million U.S. Internet users viewed online video during the month of June, the largest audience recorded for a single month, according to a new report from comScore.
The rise in video viewing is mainly due to important news stories during June, including Michael Jackson’s death and the Iranian elections, which generated significant gains particularly at major media properties such as Viacom Digital (includes MTV), Microsoft sites (includes MSNBC) and Turner Network (includes CNN).
Opera Mini Mobile Browser Reaches Milestone
Mobile web browser Opera Mini has reached a significant milestone. Opera announced that Opera Mini users viewed more than 10 billion pages in one month.
The company released its "State of the Mobile Web" report(pdf) this week, and it reveals some other interesting findings as well:
YouTube Upload Rate Reaches 20 Hours/Minute
This has been true for some time, but now more than ever, it’s impossible for any one person (or even a team of reasonable size) to keep up with all the clips uploaded to YouTube. According to an official blog post, about 20 hours of video are introduced to the site in every minute of real time.
Ashton Reaches A Million Followers
About 2 a.m. East Coast time, Ashton Kutcher declared victory in attracting one million followers on Twitter. For what it’s worth—is it worth something?—CNN piggyback publicity team conceded victory, but would reach a million itself sometime in the wee morning hours.
About 7:30 last night, just about the time the Twitter-battle was being hyped on entertainment news, bookies reached out to my inbox to inform me the odds favored CNN. Odds were even on Kutcher, long on Britney.
YouTube Symphony Orchestra Reaches Final Stages
The YouTube Symphony Orchestra project represented a neat idea: use the Internet to have musicians from all over the world perform a single piece of music. And now it’s reaching the final and most interesting stages of development as a mashup’s been compiled and everyone’s set to perform at Carnegie Hall.
Facebook Reaches 200 Million Users
Today, according to the Facebook blog, Facebook’s 200 millionth active user joined the most popular social network in the world.
Netflix Reaches Big Milestone
Popular Internet movie rental company Netflix has reached a milestone. It has shipped its 2 billionth movie. Perhaps more interesting is how much more quickly it shipped its second billion than its first.
Google Reaches Ad Deal With European News Agencies
Google and the European Pressphoto Agency (epa) have struck a deal under which the search engine will host epa content on Google News.
Under the agreement Google News users will be able to find original text stories and photos from the online services of a number of epa’s eleven agencies.
Netflix Reaches More Than 10 Million Subscribers
Netflix said today its online movie rental service has reached over 10 million subscribers, reflecting its widespread and growing popularity among movie fans.
The company says it has added more than 600,000 net subscribers since January 1. It surpassed nine million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2008 and ended the year with 9.4 million subscribers.