Google is well known for celebrating both high-profile and obscure anniversaries (Bernardo Alberto Houssay’s 126th Birthday, anyone?) and it seems that its YouTube division is no different. The 57th anniversary of the first video cassette recorder is being celebrated today with a VHS tape icon in the bottom-right corner ...
Google’s ‘Playbook Guides’ Help YouTube Content Creators
on 4.10.13
Google has just announced the release of Playbook Guides, a new resource for YouTube creators making content in common categories like music, sports, education, media companies and non-profits. Augmenting its Creator Playbook, the original resource for YouTube best practices, Google says Playbook Guides offer “tailored ...
YouTube Signs Music Licensing Deal with Universal
on 4.4.13
YouTube's takeover of the pop music landscape appears to be going global. Music Weekly reported Wednesday that France's Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM) and worldwide publishing powerhouse Universal Music Publishing have both reached international agreements with YouTube, the newest power player ...
YouTube Hits One Billion Monthly Users
on 3.21.13
On Thursday, YouTube announced that it has hit a billion monthly users, which is an extremely insane metric. We know that YouTube is the go-to place for silly, interesting and important videos, but these numbers are something that even TV networks dream of. The great part for YouTube is that this means that online video ad ...
Reddit Launches ‘Explain Like I’m Five’ YouTube Video Series
on 3.19.13
Move over cat videos, YouTube has a new series that’ll satisfy our need for midday adorableness and make us smarter. “Explain Like I’m Five” is a new web series from the wildly popular content aggregator, Reddit, that explains topics, such as existentialism and the Syrian war, through giggly conversations with five ...
Ridley Scott and Machinima to Create 12 Original Sci-Fi Short Films
on 3.12.13
Ridley Scott, the acclaimed director behind Blade Runner and Alien, is partnering with top YouTube channel Machinima to produce a series of science fiction short films. The future is here. Not the dark, gritty one that Scott himself has envisioned, but rather one where the film industry takes seriously the potential of ...
YouTube Co-Founder to Launch Rival Video Site Soon
on 3.11.13
YouTube already has its fair share of rivals on all sides, from Vimeo to Hulu. Now, though, one of YouTube's co-founders, Chris Hurley, is planning to create a rival of his own. Hurley left YouTube, by then a part of Google, in 2010. Seems he's planning to try and pull at least part of the rug from under the video site's ...
Sesame Street Hits 1 Billion Views on YouTube
on 3.6.13
If you know anything about Sesame Street's Count von Count, it's that he loves to count. In Sesame Street's latest YouTube upload, the number-loving Muppet is counting the TV show's YouTube channel views. And for a good reason: Sesame Street has just become the first non-profit YouTube channel to hit 1 billion views. The ...
Report: YouTube to Launch Music Streaming Platform This Year
on 3.5.13
We've been hearing rumblings about Google's plans for a Spotify-killer for what seems like forever now. More recently, there's been word that the company's YouTube brand is also getting set set to enter the space, albeit with some overlap from a Google-branded effort. Fortune spoke to some anonymous-type folks in the record ...
YouTube iOS App Gets AirPlay-like ‘Beaming’ Feature
on 2.28.13
Google has updated the YouTube app for iOS with its ‘send to TV’ functionality. This enables the app to send video out on an automatic connectionto TVs that support the open protocol. This update also allows you to send YouTube videos to Xbox and PS3 consoles, but they have to be manually paired. YouTube for iOS also ...
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