Archive for 'YouTube'

YouTube Launches In Video Ads – See Example

Google has formally announced that it will begin trying ads on select YouTube videos. The way this will work, according to the announcement, is by having a short ad rise up from the bottom 20% of the video. The ad will have an X for you to close it out if you wish, and if [...]

Google Video Downloads…They Tried, Failed, Tried, Messed Up and now Try Again

In case you missed it, Google officially ended its DTO/DTR (download to own, download to rent) video service last week. Google let folks who had previously purchased a video know (like me!) that:
…we will no longer offer the ability to buy or rent videos for download from Google Video, ending the DTO/DTR (download-to-own/rent) program. This [...]

YouTube Copyright Filtering by September

A Google lawyer announced on Friday that they will apply video fingerprinting technology to YouTube by September.
This comes as great news to countless of video content producers, that are now seeing their copyright videos on YouTube without their permission.
The video screening technology will consist of a computer system which will automatically scan all videos uploaded [...]

Apple iPhone will play YouTube videos…sort of

So we’re only about a week away from Apple rolling out its iPhone everywhere (if, by “everywhere,” you mean only from AT&T stores) and today a nifty announcement that the phone will come equipped with a pre-loaded player to showcase YouTube videos. It won’t be complete access to all videos within YouTube, but a selected [...]