All Posts Tagged With: "youtube"

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Google Releases YouTube Video URL Shortener

URL shorteners are all the rage these days…they allow you to take a really long URL and shorten it to just a few, cryptic, characters. They are must haves if you are posting long URL’s to Twitter or sending them in emails.
And now Google/YouTube has joined the game with their own URL shortener for [...]

December 23rd, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
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YouTube To Offer Full HD Videos

Google (YouTube) announced last week, that starting this week, YouTube will begin displaying videos in full 1080p HD.  Up to this point, YouTube only offered 720p HD video.  YouTube will encode new video uploads at their full resolution and will re-encode previous uploads to their full resolution too (assuming the videos are/were uploaded at 1080).
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November 16th, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
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TubeRadio Turns YouTube Into An iTunes Clone

In one of the more innovative twists on web video, a new site called TubeRadio is taking the huge library of music available on YouTube and making it as easy to find and organize as iTunes.
TubeRadio is 100% free and web based…there is nothing to download or install.  Just go to the site, type in [...]

October 9th, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
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Woman Gets Bank To Slash Credit Card Rate After Posting Video On YouTube

One of the major benefits of web video is that it levels the playing field…it gives the “little person” the power to achieve what could not have been achieved otherwise.
A while back I did a post about how a guy fought back by using web video after his guitar was damaged by an airline.  And [...]

September 30th, 2009 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
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Coming Up Next On YouTube, Your Local News

This spring YouTube quietly started a new offering called News Near You.  With it, YouTube intelligently senses what region you’re accessing their site from and serves up news stories from your local area.
Up to this point, it has been met with some fear by major news organizations, as YouTube’s parent company, Google, has played an [...]

August 3rd, 2009 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
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When Social Media Is More Powerful Than SEO, Pay-Per-Click and All Other Forms of Marketing Combined

I’ve long been a proponent of social media over traditional Internet marketing methods like SEO, AdWords and the rest of the usual suspects.  That’s because, I believe, what others say about you can be far more powerful than what you say about yourself.
In fact, Eric Clemons, a professor at the famed Wharton Business School, touched [...]

July 10th, 2009 | Dave | 6 comments | Continued
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Mobile Video Uploads Soar 400% With Release of iPhone 3GS

One week ago today, Apple released the newest incarnation of their iPhone, the iPhone 3GS, which records video. In the first 3 days it was available, Apple reported selling over 1 million of these new iPhones.
And in the 7 days since it’s release, uploads from mobile phones to YouTube have increased 400%…padding the 1,700% increase [...]

June 26th, 2009 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
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YouTube Announces Site Redesign To Feature Studio Content

It seems I’ve been on a video sharing site kick lately, but that’s where the news has been coming from.  And YouTube is featured once again as yesterday they announced that some changes are in the works.
First, they’ve inked deals to feature content from major studios like Sony Pictures, Starz, Lionsgate, MGM, CBS and the [...]

April 17th, 2009 | Dave | 2 comments | Continued
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YouTube Expected To Lose $470 Million In 2009

As a follow-up to my post last Friday, where I covered news of video sharing site Veoh slashing their workforce by 36%, comes news about YouTube, the 800 pound gorilla in the market (Google owned YouTube is responsible for approximately 41% of all video streams on the Internet).
While Google has admitted that YouTube has never [...]

April 6th, 2009 | Dave | 2 comments | Continued
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Who Were The New Media Guru’s Behind Obama’s Election?

I can remember a former U.S. President, back when he was the active President, commenting in amazement about how supermarkets use scanners at the checkout line (a practice that had been in use for over a decade at the time).
Today there is a U.S. President who does weekly video addresses via YouTube.  Times have changed.
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February 20th, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued