For the second straight year, Google tops the list of worldwide brands in BrandChannel’s annual survey. The surprise, however, is the surging popularity of YouTube and Wikipedia, with both claiming spots in the top 5 rankings for the first time.
Google Reveals More About YouTube Plans
Back in October, Google purchased YouTube amid a frenzy of media coverage and speculation about how the search company would implement the user-generated video site into its everyday operations. In a statement today, Google shed some more light onto its long-term plans for YouTube.
YouTube Nofollows Most Outgoing Links
Here’s a shocker: Wikipedia isn’t the only major site that uses “nofollow” on outgoing user-generated links; YouTube does it too.
Fox Presses YouTube To Reveal Pirate
What’s scarier than a Rosie O’Donnell pole dance? How about Rupert Murdoch with a subpoena? Twentieth Century Fox will test Google’s privacy resolve in much the same way the federal government did this time last year by demanding a YouTube user who uploaded entire Fox TV shows be identified.
Nokia Design Has a YouTube Channel
Looks like the Nokia Design folks have a YouTube channel where they are sharing some conceptual videos exploring the (potential) future of mobile communications.
YouTube Vs. Gandhi In Death Match
A New York-based clown-turned-stand-up-comedian-slash-yoga-mime posted a video of himself on YouTube impersonating Gandhi doing a pole dance. Stop laughing. India doesn’t think it’s funny, and the government has threatened to take action against YouTube if the video isn’t removed.
Net Neutrality Bill Reaches Senate, YouTube
The Net Neutrality debate is now front and center in the US Senate (well, when their not talking about Iraq) as Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) introduce the Internet Freedom Preservation Act. Dorgan didn’t stop with the floor of the Senate, he also took his case to YouTube.
More Trouble In Brazil For YouTube
YouTube appears to be out of options in Brazil.
YouTube And The Brazilian Sex Video
YouTube cannot seem to stay away from controversy. From being sued and threatened both domestically and globally over copyright issues to the latest scandal south of the border. This new trouble involves a video of a Brazilian model and her boyfriend “befriending” one another on a beach and in the water.
YouTube Anti-Piracy Software Still Vaporware
A promise to deliver software that will detect infringing content uploaded by YouTube’s enthusiastic video sharing users has not been fulfilled.