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Youtube is supposedly the second largest search engine. It only makes sense that the video site’s search capabilities should be expanded. that is just what YouTube has been working on. This week, they have added some new ways to customize your search experience, and hopefully better find the videos you are looking for.
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Back in April, Credit Suisse issued a report stating that YouTube stood to lose $470M this year. But now it looks like the financial services company was overly pessimistic (and, really, they’re probably just used to that, with the economy the way it is). New estimates from research company RampRate puts the losses for the most popular video website in the world far more conservatively:
A little less than three months ago, Credit Suisse predicted that YouTube’s 2009 losses would be in the neighborhood of $470 million. Which is, of course, quite bad. But a new report from RampRate – together with info out of Microsoft – makes it look like Google’s video-sharing site is doing somewhat better.
Americans viewed a record 16.8 billion videos online in April, a 16 percent increase over March, according to new data from comScore.
A surge in video viewing at YouTube during April contributed to the month’s significant gains.
Google sites were once again the most popular property with 6.8 billion videos viewed (40.7 percent online video market share), a 15 percent increase over March. YouTube accounted for more than 99 percent of all videos viewed at the property.
A certain search giant might as well get it over with and release some sort of product mashup called Google Election. In the meantime, though, YouTube and Google Moderator have come back into the spotlight as important tools in a series of political interviews.
YouTube is set to premiere Luc Besson’s new movie, the first time a film debuts both online and in theaters.
The move by YouTube is part of its strategy to boost ad sales and reach profitability. The Google owned property will premiere "Home" tomorrow, a movie about the environment produced by Besson, who has previously directed "The Fifth Element," "Nikita" and "Leon."
YouTube is finally preparing to take on Hulu with premium content and better quality video from YouTube XL—preparing for a real big screen interface. You know, such as a television. Hulu is rather adamant about not going to television, so this could get to be a bit of a big deal.
Yesterday YouTube unveiled the newest way to view the sites content, simply called YouTube XL.
Basically YouTube XL is a redesigned version of the YouTube website, optimized for televisions and large computer monitors.
According to Nielsen, almost 99 percent of the video watched in the US is on a television. That leaves 1.1 percent for the Internet, and 0.1 percent on mobile devices.
In fact, though video viewing online and on mobile is increasing dramatically, neither medium is taking away from TV. Americans are actually watching more TV than ever and just adding online viewing to their schedules.
That’s bad news for gyms, eh?
YouTube has introduced the new US Government Portal today, though the channel says it’s been a member since 2007. The portal connects you to 25 federal agencies.
