If you happen to come across some silent YouTube videos today, there’s no need to start investigating your speaker settings and browser defaults. It seems that the "problem" is on YouTube’s end; the site’s owners have chosen to mute certain clips as a way of dealing with copyright violations.
Members Of Congress Embrace YouTube
It looks like some politicians are starting to get the hang of this Internet thing. Two new YouTube channels have been established, and certain members of the House and Senate intend to use them as communications and outreach tools.
Israeli Military Putting Gaza Clips On YouTube
Israel is well known for both developing and buying some of the most advanced military tech in existence. Now, arms of the nation’s government have begun using two of the tech community’s favorite social media sites in order to explain and defend its recent actions.
UMG Reports YouTube Making Them Millions
Well, it looks like the most popular video site on the Internet is making somebody money—but it might not be Google. Universal Music Group reports that YouTube is making them “tens of millions of dollars.” Rio Caraeff, executive vice president of Universal Music Group’s eLabs and head of their digital group, told CNET:
Man Posts Baby Food Threat on YouTube, Pleads Guilty
In one of those stories that makes you question humanity, some guy in New York pleaded guilty to posting a video on YouTube in which he claimed responsibility for seeing that millions of jars of Gerber baby food were poisoned. This is one of those stories from the dark side of social media and online video.
YouTube Channels Charitable for the Holidays
YouTube is pointing to a number of its channels that are getting charitable this holiday season. Well, some are always charitable, but the holiday season tends to bring out the best in many organizations, and the YouTube team thought it would be nice to highlight some of them.
Making Six Figures with YouTube
Everybody talks about YouTube monetizing itself, but what about users monetizing their own YouTube accounts?
YouTube Greeting Cards Return
Traditional holiday cards are a bit of a nuisance. You’re supposed to buy stationary, write a bunch of lengthy, personal notes, and sacrifice however many stamps. So, although what’s offered there might not be perfect for Great Aunt Susie, the YouTube Greeting Cards site at least provides an alternative.
YouTube Grabs 100 Million Video Viewers
U.S. Internet users watched 13.5 billion online videos during October, marking a 45 percent increase compared to a year ago, according to comScore Video Metrix.In October, Google sites once again dominated, ranking as the top U.S. video property with 5.3 billion videos viewed (representing a 40 percent share of all video viewed) with YouTube accounting for more than 98 percent of all videos viewed at the property.
YouTube Enhances Embedded Search and Audio Library
YouTube has a couple of new things going on worth noting. First off, if you nave not noticed by now, embedded YouTube videos now carry a search box at the top. This only appears when you mouseover the top portion of the video, and disappears when you move away.