Clips from programs like South Park and The Daily Show vanished from YouTube when Viacom demanded their removal. You wouldn’t know anything has changed based on YouTube’s rising traffic.
Google To Outsource YouTube Filtering
Much has been made of YouTube’s inability to keep pirated content off of its servers, a sticking point that has made the popular video-sharing site a very large target for media companies, especially since its highly publicized acquisition by Google in October of last year.
Microsoft To Go After YouTube With Revver?
Some people would assert that Google launched an assault on Microsoft earlier today; others would just say that the search engine giant launched a paid version of Google Apps. Either way, Microsoft may have a ready response: reports indicate that the company could take aim at YouTube by acquiring Revver, another video-sharing site.
Google To Improve YouTube Copyright Protection
When Google bought YouTube last year, most throughout the blogosphere saw the move as a natural fit for the search company and lauded the acquisition as an monumental success.
Nearly six months later, however, YouTube’s sparkle is beginning to fade amid the copyright complaints that are plaguing Google’s legal department.
JetBlue CEO Hits YouTube
In another display reinforcing the idea that JetBlue understands how to communicate in a crisis, CEO David Neeleman has produced a video and had it uploaded to YouTube. Neeleman doesn’t read-in fact, he comes across as very human with a lot of "umms" as he speaks off-the-cuff, probably from a simple outline of things he wanted to cover.
The New Frontier: YouTube Optimization
Search engines have been around long enough for traffic-minded marketers to whittle down SEO and SEM to a near science – okay, an exact science sans the key algorithm variable. But what is known about optimizing video content on YouTube? Next to nothing, that’s what.
That doesn’t stop the especially enterprising from trying to figure it out before the traditional advertising companies do, though. As far as the SEM community goes, they may soon claim YouTube optimization (or video optimization if you prefer) as their inherent turf.
Joost Takes On YouTube in Viacom Deal
According to a story in the Wall Street Journal this morning (reg. required), entertainment colossus Viacom has signed a distribution deal with Joost, the peer-to-peer streaming television service that Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom started up with the billions they made selling Skype.
EFF Goes YouTube Ambulance Chasing
If a YouTube user feels one of their videos was an unfair casualty of Viacom’s recent war on copyright infringement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to know about it. The nonprofit organization has posted its call to the user-generated disenfranchised on their home YouTube turf.
ShoZu Adds Geotagging for Flickr, YouTube…
Oh man… while away I almost missed out in this announcement. It involves some of my favorite web services and one of the coolest, free mobile apps around.
What do you get when you combine Shozu mobile uploading app with YouTube, Flickr, and then throw in Geotagging too??
Well, you get a kick-ass application that any smartphone would be an idiot to ndo without! Shozu has recently added all this capability to their latest and its amazing.
Site Wants To Be The “YouTube” Of Real Estate
Internet broadcast company ROO and the Real Estate Channel have partnered to launch a video on demand broadband network that offers builders, developers and agents an alternative to traditional TV, radio and print advertising. The hope is to create a less expensive way to advertise while still reaching their target audience.
The network provides real estate companies an IPTV channel through which they can attract new customers for real estate projects, communities and products, while building awareness of service offerings.