YouTube hits 2 billion views a day on fifth anniversary
YouTube has hit 2 billion views per day. From the blog: Over time, these aspirations have created a vibrant and inspiring community that helped transform a murmur of interest into something far greater than any of us ever could have imagined. Today, thanks to you, our site has crossed another milestone: YouTube exceeds [...]
New award for film makers launches
Framepool , LBB Online and the Fireflies are launching a new award for film makers. In this inaugural year the winning entry will be shown to thousands of creatives across the world. The challenge is to make a movie around the word ‘Courage’. By choosing this team the organisers want to ‘acknowledge the courage of people who overcome [...]
Footage.net upgrades site and launches directory
Footage.net, a stock, archival and news footage search engine, has made changes to is’s stock footage search platform. They include: Faster footage search Clip screening Instant connectivity with sellers “The new site will help creative professionals take control of their stock footage search projects,” said Footage.net President Domenick Propati. “Our new user interface provides researchers with [...]
Books are not dying in this Dorling Kindersley video
The UK branche of publisher Dorling Kindersley produced a video for an internal sales conference that has become a hit on YouTube. The idea is from a famous, price winning, video created by Argentinian agency, Savaglio/TBWA entitled Truth (see the second video). The video takes the forward/backwards idea and applies this to the challenges pubishers [...]
Everyone can now auto-caption YouTube video’s
With 20 hours of video uploaded every minute it would be an understatement to say YouTube has a challenge captioning all the content that is shown on the site. On top of that studies predict over 700 million people will suffer from a hearing impairment bu 2015. This is why YouTube has now opened auto-captioning to [...]
Sydney’s Fireworks on YouTube
With our eyes firmly fixed on 2010 in this first workingweek the New Years Eve celebration is probably a distant memory. Nevertheless here’s a quick reminder. The Sydney tourist board has posted the full video of their famous New Years Eve fireworks display on YouTube. Great use of YouTube to promote their country and city and [...]
Citizen journalism on YouTube
We interviewed Turi Munthe, the CEO of Demotix in December. The company is bringing street journalism to mainstream media by showing user generated photography to Global clients. On the video side any company trying the same mode; will have some fierce competiton from YouTube. The channel has been showing some of the dramatic footage of [...]
Paramount to start selling movie clips directly
Paramount Pictures has created a service that will sell clips of its movies to companies and, later, consumers. Users will be able to search hundreds of films, search each movie frame by frame, find the exact scene they want and click check-out. Similar to Stock video libraries the price will be based on the type of license required. [...]
Online video viewing reaches record levels, again
Online video is still on the up. Comscore released data showing that more than 167 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. Online video viewing continued to reach record levels in October with nearly 28 billion videos viewed during the month, as Google Sites accounted for 38 percent of videos viewed online by [...]
Vidque wants to clarify online video
VidQue is a new company that started earlier this month. The company enables users to save and share videos to their own custom pages with a single click, while helping them follow what their friends and peers are watching. The founders feel that with 20 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every hour it has become [...]
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