YouTube redesigns video pages to reduce clutter
Google has redesigned YouTube’s video page interface because it has become “cluttered and a little overwhelming” by Google’s own admission.
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Cannes Lions and YouTube announce viral award winners
Two young creatives from Malaysia and Israel have won a viral ad competition organized by the Cannes Lions and YouTube to promote Oxfam's climate change campaign.
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YouTube UK music videos to vanish over licensing fees?
Google is set to pull all music videos from its UK version of YouTube after failed negotiations over licensing fees with the Performing Rights Society (PRS).
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YouTube redesigns for HD video
Google's YouTube has rolled out a high-definition option for video and created new landing pages to make it easier to find popular video categories.
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YouTube to host full-length MGM movies
YouTube is expected to announce Monday that it will host full-length films and television shows from MGM, including classic Western "The Magnificent Seven," The New York Times reported Monday.
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Google rolls out audio search for YouTube videos
Google has launched an audio search indexing experiment that allows users to find spoken words inside videos and jump to the portion of the video where the words are spoken.
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YouTube to carry Olympic videos in some countries
The International Olympic Committee is launching its own video channel for the games in cooperation with YouTube, to territories in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the IOC said Monday.
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Italian media company sues YouTube
Italian media conglomerate Mediaset Group has sued YouTube for €500 million (around £394million), alleging the Google video-sharing site illegally hosts thousands of video clips that belong to Mediaset.
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YouTube accounts for one-third of all videos viewed online
It may come as no surprise to many who spend a lot of time on Google's popular video Web site YouTube, but the service accounts for one out of every three videos viewed online. Market research form comScore said that YouTube accounted for over three billion of the over nine billion videos viewed in January 2008.
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YouTube will allow other sites to morph into YouTubes
YouTube Wednesday unveiled new tools aimed at allowing third party Web sites to build their own YouTube capabilities by providing developers with access to the YouTube video library and underlying video hosting and streaming infrastructure. As a result, Web site operators can now allow their users to upload video and access their YouTube accounts without leaving their sites.
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YouTube rival Hulu debuts with TV shows, movies, sports
Hulu, a joint online video project of NBC Universal and News Corp , is set to go live Wednesday with programming from Time Warner's television group, Lions Gate Entertainment and sports groups. A beta version of the site was launched in October.
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YouTube remains dominant video streamer, says Nielsen
Google's YouTube continues as the preferred online video site of U.S. users, with a popularity that dwarfs its closest competitors, according to Nielsen Online.
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YouTube gets more social with personalization experiment
YouTube has unveiled an experimental page that will allow a small group of randomly chosen users to receive personalized video recommendations, lists of videos added to friends' pages and other exclusive social features.
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YouTube blames Pakistani ISP for global site outage
Many users around the world could not access the YouTube site for about two hours on Sunday. The company blamed the outage on erroneous routing information introduced by a Pakistani Internet service provider. Pakistani authorities ordered ISPs there to block the site on Friday.
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YouTube update offers millions of videos to mobile devices
YouTube Thursday announced an expansion of its mobile applications that significantly expands the number of supported cell phone technologies that can support the viewing of its tens of millions of videos.
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Google testing YouTube antipiracy system
Google has unveiled a test version of a much-awaited antipiracy system for its wildly popular yet controversial YouTube video-sharing site.
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YouTube lands on Google Earth
If you've ever wanted to travel to Paris, but just never got around to it, you can now use the Google Earth software tool and watch a sunset filmed from the top floor of the Eiffel Tower, or view video clips of other popular spots in the City of Lights.
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Internet pipes can't keep up in YouTube age
The Internet needs a massive investment to keep up with the demands of YouTube fans, billions of e-mails and wireless access, a university study states.
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YouTube to add ads to videos
YouTube is set to launch a new way to advertise on videos hosted at its popular Web site, and they hope people like what they see.
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Google adds YouTube clips to News site
Google has started to provide video clips in Google News, a feature it had been widely expected to add to its article search and aggregation site and which Yahoo and AOL already offer in their news sites.