Capitalizing on Online Video's Strengths (6)
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Online video now boasts a bigger audience than cable television, but its $1 billion in ad dollars is a tiny fraction of the billions in spending on older media. When will online video be the behemoth business everyone always crows about? Maybe when we quit treating its biggest strength as a weakness.
Following Hurricane Gustav on YouTube (3)
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The country watched as Hurricane Gustav swept through the Caribbean and into the Gulf this weekend, making landfall in Louisiana on Monday. Memories of Hurricane Katrina, the powerful storm that devastated New Orleans exactly three years ago, remain fresh in the minds of area residents. To ensure that no one relived that experience, Louisiana leaders ordered a mandatory evacuation on Saturday that has pushed more than two million people to leave their homes and seek ...
YouTube Adds Closed Captioning (42)
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YouTube has turned on the ability to add full closed captions to videos. This will not only allow videos to appeal more directly to foreign audiences, but will give YouTube excellent data for searching videos and targeting ads to them. After all, a complete set of subtitles is the same as a transcript of the video. And you can upload subtitles for as many languages as you want. It’s excellent data. From the YouTube blog: ...
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booyaa said:
and with one fell swoop all the other video sharing sites fell to the way side. finally youtube got googlified.
What The Veoh Decision Means For YouTube And Others (38)
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Attorneys representing online video sites around the country are salivating today over the Veoh summary judgment decision (I know this because I’ve spoken to a few of them). In a nutshell, here’s what we learned today: If you take reasonable precautions against copyrighted materials on your service, you may be ok. And oh yeah, if you are going to get sued, try to get sued in federal court in northern California, because the judges there ...
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Jrod said:
huzzah!
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glongman said:
So that post you shared yesterday John makes hosting video uploads easy. But, it does open another can of worms and adds another, not insignificant, burdon. The legal one!
Everything You Thought You Knew About the Business of YouTube Was Wrong (34)
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Have you turned up your nose at YouTube for being born from low quality, financially unsustainable, pirated content? If you've made that argument in conversation before (and we now many people do) - new claims from YouTube itself now indicate that you'd be wrong. The official Google Blog made a post this morning following up on a New York Times story last week where the company claimed that 90% of the owners of copyrighted content ...
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Hashim said:
yes, I agree again...this is big.
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Kevin Sablan said:
"... it's not about scarcity and silos anymore. It's about keeping your users and fans through better service and compelling value-ads."
Everything You Thought You Knew About the Business of YouTube Was Wrong (26)
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Have you turned up your nose at YouTube for being born from low quality, financially unsustainable, pirated content? If you've made that argument in conversation before (and we now many people do) - new claims from YouTube itself now indicate that you'd be wrong. The official Google Blog made a post this morning following up on a New York Times story last week where the company claimed that 90% of the owners of copyrighted content ...
Courts To Big Media: Careful With Those Takedown Notices (GOOG) (2)
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Here's a nice bit of common sense, courtesy of the U.S. legal system: A ruling (embedded below) that tells big media companies that they can't just send out blanket takedown notices when they see stuff they don't like on YouTube or other Websites. Instead, they're going to have to actually think about whether or not whoever submitted the clip (or whatever) has a right to do so. Wired: In the nation's first such ruling, a ...
