Today on the Net: YouTube adds a vuvuzela button for World Cup fans who miss the horns while watching online videos, KickApps adds an application development suite for Facebook and licensing firm Rumblefish is pitching cheap music licenses for non-commercial use in YouTube videos. Read More »
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Online video viewing numbers continue to climb with the passing of time, according to data released today by comScore. Users watched nearly 34 billion videos in May 2010, with both Vevo and Facebook climbing in the ranks. Read More »
Day Three of YouTuber Week focuses on self-taught filmmaker Julian Smith, whose acting talents are almost overshadowed by his incredible production values. However, the 23-year-old creator puts his comedy first, and himself second, for a varied assortment of sketches, music videos, and random video experiments. Read More »
YouTube’s win in the lawsuit brought against it by Viacom could not only help clear it of the copyright infringement stigma it has held since the early days, but it could pave the way for the video share site to sign up more premium content partners. Read More »
YouTube has scored a victory in the copyright infringement lawsuit waged against it by Viacom, but the biggest winner of the day may be the DMCA — the 1998 law that was at the core of Google’s defense and that has been called outdated by some. Read More »
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has just granted YouTube’s motion for summary judgment against Viacom, meaning that the site is off the hook in Viacom’s billion-dollar copyright infringement case. Read More »
YouTuber Week continues with a look at artist and vlogger Kat Sketch. Having joined YouTube in September 2008, Sketch’s viewcounts rarely break the six figure mark, but her art pieces using unconventional materials are just one part of her online success. Read More »
Google is reaching out to local bloggers in San Francisco as part of a new trial of its YouTube Direct citizen journalism offering. The initiative would serve as a showcase of how other news organizations could leverage YouTube’s citizen journalists to augment their own coverage. Read More »
In the past, if YouTube users wanted their clips to be perfect, they had to use offline video editing tools. But now, the video share site has rolled out cloud-based video editing tools, giving users a whole new way to remix their existing video assets online. Read More »
Since launching a month ago, YouTube’s unlisted videos feature has experienced exponential growth since launching in May. But just because a video is unlisted doesn’t mean it can’t rack up views — Nike’s World Cup viral ad being the prime example. Read More »
YouTube has never been particularly well known for high-brow content, but it’s looking to change that through a new initiative in conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum and HP called YouTube Play that will seek creative, artistic and experimental videos from its users. Read More »
Are you a hardcore gamer that wasn’t able to make it out to Los Angeles for this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo? Well have no fear, because IGN has teamed up with YouTube to stream live coverage of all the major happenings at the show. Read More »
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