YouTube
Top social media users getting paid; is the balance shifting?
Jason Calacanis says in an AOL memo he’s posted that his model for Netscape has been vindicated by the recent conflagration at Digg and rapid growth of page views at…
YouTube pulls a Facebook move, circa 2004
YouTube has opened a new section of its site called Colleges on YouTube. Students, staff and alumni of 30 universities can access video from their school community by using a…
Can Paris Hilton boost YouTube?
YouTube will unveil a number of custom branded commercial channels tomorrow in its latest move to monetize the site. The bizarre cultural icon Paris Hilton is already highlighted on the…
YouTube and Google seek to monetize music
Music was the impetus for the MySpace explosion and now YouTube and Google are both getting ready to leverage music as well. YouTube says it’s aiming to put every music…
YouTube goes down for the first time
On the same day that new Comscore numbers came out indicating new traffic highs for YouTube, the site went down for six hours this morning in the first unplanned outage…
Comscore: MySpace Video traffic doubled in July
Web traffic analyst firm Comscore has released their numbers for July and the most striking finding was that traffic to MySpace Video has doubled since June. Prime competitor YouTube saw…
YouTube serves 100m videos each day
The big news of the morning is that YouTube has announced it’s hit 100 million videos served per day. Founded in early 2005, the company has raised at least $11.5…
YouTube Mobile Uploading
YouTube announced a new feature today that allows uploading of videos from a mobile device that supports Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). Users need to create a moblie profile before uploading…
Did YouTube Just Raise another $25 million?
I’ve heard from three independent sources that YouTube may have very quietly raised another $25 million in venture capital after raising two rounds totalling $11.5 million from Sequoia Capital. YouTube’s…
YouTube Acquisition Rumors
UPDATE: (Jan. 19) I am now 95% sure this rumor is innacurate after receiving yet more information. UPDATE: (Jan. 18) This rumor is highly speculative at this point after reading…
Comparing The Flickrs of Video
I’ve been tracking a number of sites that offer flickr-like services for video. I’ve taken a look at as many of these services that I could find. The most well…
Profile – YouTube
Company: YouTube Launched: early 2005 Location: Palo Alto, California Overview: YouTube is very much like flickr (profile), but for videos. You can upload videos in a number of different formats…