YouTube has just announced they will now have a “YouTube News” video to keep users abreast of the latest news from the site. The vlog is hosted by Peter Zottolo. And while it’s a step in the right direction, it lacks some key essentials that would really make it useful.
There are some interesting numbers about the increasing numbers of “how to” searches and “how to” videos in a recent article at TVWeek.
Political vlogs (a la YouTube’s “You Choose”) are going European. The “You Choose ’08″ platform from YouTube will take on different accents and different languages when it moves its concept across the pond to the U.K. and Spain.
YouTube has come out recently with a slew of improvements. You can see some in the video above.
Revver has just announced that they have now paid out $1 million in revenue to its video creators and sharers. The site has also just hit its one-year anniversary. Says Steven Starr, founder of the video sharing site: The time and place to be an independent creator is right now, online. Smart advertisers are financing an online economy that supports these creators, and the top talent will build fortunes. This is historic: It is the birth of a sustainable art form, and it’s happening before [...]
Yahoo’s biggest move in this strategy to catch up to YouTube is allowing users to add videos on Flickr – the ultra popular photo-sharing site which they now own.
Vimeo has just released a very nice new “widget” that they call “Projector.” It’s an embed tool for a blog or MySpace. It allows the viewer to page through videos that you have selected to be seen in the Projector (be they your own videos or your “subscription” to others’ videos). You can also watch your subscriptions on places like your Netvibes page.
When YouTube announced the other day that they would begin using overlay ads on some of their videos, many in the online video world decided that throwing a bucket of gasoline on this small, burning match would be a good way to put it out.
YouTube went down for nearly two hours recently due to the Pakistani government’s move to block the video sharing site from its citizens. But the outage extended far beyond Pakistan’s borders to the U.S., Germany, China, Russia, Australia, and the U.K.
It looks like electronics retailer Best Buy is jumping into the video hosting game with the help of the UK-based firm Mydeo.