Rent movies on YouTube

Since buying YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006, Google has tried many different ways to turn a profit from the video sharing website. Despite being one of the most visited websites on the Internet and enjoying a userbase that can spend literally hours on its website, watching a reported 10 billion videos in 2009, YouTube has still proved a drain on Google’s limitless resources.

The high bandwidth costs of YouTube are one of its main costs.

Google has now come up with another way that it hopes YouTube will begin to make money, and it’s bad news for companies such as Blockbuster. Yesterday Google launched a new service whereby Internet users in the USA could pay to rent movies from (more…)

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Filed under: Google, YouTube — Written by Matt posted on January 23, 2010 at 8:06 am

Full TV shows now available on YouTube

As if people didn’t spend enough of their daily lives navigating around YouTube, watching videos of skateboarding dogs or kids laughing, now YouTube has full length TV shows as well.

We don’t mean those awful US shows either; this news is about British TV shows written and shot in good old Blighty. Shows such as Derren Brown, Peep Show, Gordon Ramsay’s F Word and yes, sadly, Hollyoaks are now available to watch on the Google owned video sharing website.

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Google has entered into a three year agreement with Channel 4 to show full length TV programmes, which went live yesterday. There are currently 4,000 full length shows in the ‘Shows’ section on YouTube, but more shows will be added in (more…)

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Filed under: Google, YouTube — Written by Cheryl posted on November 20, 2009 at 8:00 am

YouTube Direct lets YouTube users make the news

Have you ever wanted to be a news reporter, one of those intrepid reporters on the scene with your trusty cameraman, relaying the latest news to a hungry public?

You have? Well you could be in luck, because Google has just launched YouTube Direct, which is aimed at allowing YouTube users to submit videos (not necessarily their own) to local news networks’ websites.

News and media organisations are able to use the YouTube Direct service to request users, members of the general public, to submit YouTube videos that may be of newsworthiness. These videos are then assessed for their relevance by the media organisations and, if found to be of note, are used as news.

Steve Grove, from the news and politics section of YouTube (yes, there is one) added:

People around the world are taking up cameras and covering news in ways big and small – from documenting global events, to filming local town halls in neighborhoods. YouTube Direct empowers news and media organisations to easily connect with these citizen reporters, and use the power of our platform to cover the news better than ever before.

The Huffington Post in the USA tested the service and it is now being rolled out to (more…)

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Filed under: Google, YouTube — Written by Matt posted on November 18, 2009 at 10:35 am

What are the most popular websites in the UK?

SEO is all about getting your website to rank higher in Google (and possibly other not so important search engines) so that you receive more traffic, and subsequently business.

SEO is just one small part of making your website hugely successful though. It also has to be engaging, useful, well designed, sticky (meaning that people stay on it longer and come back again) and lots of other things besides. The most successful websites in the UK all have these things in common, as you can see below in the Hitwise report for the most popular websites in the UK for the week ending (more…)

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Filed under: Facebook, Google, Research, YouTube — Written by Matt posted on November 9, 2009 at 8:15 am

Using YouTube for SEO

YouTube has been around for many years now and has become one of the most visited websites in the UK, always appearing in the top 10 list of visited websites behind Facebook and Google.

What does this mean for you, the website owner, who wants to increase your traffic and rankings?

It means that YouTube is one of the most powerful websites on the Internet, and by using YouTube effectively you can not only increase your website’s exposure but you can also increase your website’s rankings.

Since Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion it has struggled to (more…)

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Filed under: SEO Advice, YouTube — Written by Matt posted on November 5, 2009 at 10:52 am

Facebook accounts for one in seven page views in the UK

Anyone who thought Facebook was a flash in the pan and was losing ground to Twitter can think again. According to figures released by Hitwise, the firm that monitors Internet usage and trends, Facebook accounted for one in seven web pages viewed online in the UK during September. This amounted to a staggering 14.5% of page views generated in the United Kingdom falling on Facebook’s servers.

Facebook isn’t the most visited website in the UK, that honour is still Google’s, but as Google is so good at finding answers to users’ queries, Google doesn’t generate a great deal of page views per visit. Facebook on the other hand has a very high number of page views per visit, as its users spend hours checking messages, updated their status and using its myriad of applications.

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Facebook is so popular in the UK that in September it received more page views than Google.co.uk, YouTube and (more…)

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Filed under: Facebook, Research, YouTube — Written by Carl posted on October 17, 2009 at 8:29 am

Music videos available to UK YouTube users once more

The immediacy and level of access that YouTube offers people to videos is its greatest asset, but also its greatest problem, at least according to film studios and the music industry. Because YouTube offers users access to film trailers, snippets of TV shows, movies and music videos, the issue of artists being paid for their work was one that YouTube, even with Google’s powerful hand on the tiller, couldn’t resolve.

In March this year YouTube, after failing to reach any agreement over how music artists would be compensated for views of their music videos on YouTube, acted to block access to many music videos to UK audiences.

Now however Google and YouTube have reached an agreement with PRS (the songwriters’ group) to compensate artists for views of their videos. Details of exactly how much is to be paid by Google for each view have not been revealed, but the good news is that UK users of YouTube can now view videos of all music performers from Lady GaGa to the late Michael Jackson, to (more…)

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Filed under: Google, Video, YouTube — Written by Carl posted on September 4, 2009 at 4:21 pm

Lego says no to Spinal Tap YouTube video

spinal_tap_wideweb__470x4610Toymaker Lego has poured cold water on the flames of Spinal Tap, the mock rock band from the film Spinal Tap, who wanted to use a YouTube video featuring Lego versions of them playing their hit ‘Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight’.

The video was created by a 14 year old in 2007, Coleman Hickey. It was uploaded to YouTube and has become a viral success. The video also caught the attention of the band Spinal Tap, who used the video in their recent tour ‘Unwigged and Unplugged’.

The mock band are made up of Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean. Harry Shearer is probably best known for his work on the Simpsons, where he voices many different characters, including barkeeper Mo.

Now the band want to release a DVD of their tour, but permission to use the Lego video footage has been refused by Lego. The Danish company stated:

We love that our fans are so passionate and so creative with our products.

But it had some inappropriate language and the tone wasn’t appropriate for our target audience of (more…)

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Filed under: Google, YouTube — Written by Carl posted on August 31, 2009 at 7:45 am
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