After months of speculation, News Corp. and NBC’s online video partnership has surfaced to the face of the web. Simply named Hulu, the online video is preparing to face off with other online video portals, more particularly with Google’s leading video portal, YouTube. The main page of Hulu.com is now up and running with a …
A couple of weeks ago Yahoo announced that it will be integrating video content into its photo sharing site, Flickr aside from intensifying content development into its Yahoo video portal by pushing more licensed videos from its partner content providers. But this seemed to have not generated too much hype and interest from the online …
Google will begin serving advertisements on selected YouTube videos through an “overlay” method that appears on the bottom of videos during the first 20 seconds of play before disappearing 10 seconds after. YouTube users will have the option to close the ad overlay before it finishes playing or click on the ads to launch it. …
Looks like YouTube has finally met its match with the entry of french-based video production hub DailyMotion in the internet video scene. DailyMotion, a french-based internet video sharing site has signed a licensed programming deal with RDF USA, one of the world’s largest and fastest growing production company. RDF USA produces shows such as ABC’s …
The European Commission in cooperation with YouTube has launched EUTube, a video portal showcasting the works of the European Union. The EC hopes to disseminate the activities of the Commission through videos and at the same encourage its citizens to comment on the video clips being uploaded in the EUTube channel. The EUTube channel would …
I can’t stress enough how important video is becoming to online marketing campaigns. I’ve been blogging a bit on video, especially after the Future of Online Advertising conference, which showed the tools and resources which will come out to make online video a more powerful advertising tool than it is now. A report by the …
With the current localization thrust among web 2.0 applications, it was but normal that the number one video sharing and uploading site, YouTube, makes its services available on various language. The official YouTube blog announces the availability of YouTube’s portal in the local language of Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and …
Here’s the official statement from Official Google Blog about the state of YouTube’s video ID tool, an issue which received some media buzz the past couple of days. “We are beginning tests on an automated system to identify and match specific videos. The technology extracts key visual aspects of uploaded videos and compares that information …
The Official Google Blog announces the launch of CNN/YouTube Debates, a compilation of user, or better yet, “electoral-generated” videos of questions for U.S. Presidential Election candidates. Kicking-off this project is the Democratic debate happening on July 23. So from June 14-July 22, users can formulate their own questions, create videos of themselves asking those questions, …
At the Future of Online Advertising convention in New York last week, a commercial was shown to the attendees to show the power in YouTube of not only delivering traffic, but branding as well. There will be a growing number of opportunities of marketers in the online video space as the net and its technology …
