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Report: YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

ReadWriteWeb/Hitwise sez: Report: YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today indicating that while online video sites as a category have seen a 7% drop in traffic year over year since March 2007 – YouTube has seen a remarkable 32% growth in visits during that period. YouTube’s market [...]

Magibon is fake, TINA is fake, Internet video a hoax

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Hot on the tail of suspicion about Tinaecmusic come accusations against gang-sign-waving, eyelash-batting mystery azn Magibon. There’s no real proof, of course — this is the internet. The controversy heated up when an obsessed fan created magibon.com, which suggested it was all a viral marketing campaign for a new Japanese horror film. Now debunked, and [...]

There’s no money in Internet video

Monday, April 14th, 2008

YouTube series Break A Leg weighs in on trying to make a living in the world of straight-to-YouTube: With over 2 million views on YouTube, we’ve received roughly $1,600 from their Partner Program. We also over half a million views at YouTube competitor Blip.tv, worth a whopping $100. Finally another competitor MetaCafe featured us on [...]

Tinaec: the essay will be about me

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Tina’s back, and gunning for more hits than ever using… her sexuality. -So the rules of my contest are…. -you write a minimum of 500 words essay. -the essay will be about me, Tina, and how much you love me, my beauty and my singing voice and my videos. etc etc … -NO NEGATIVE ENTRies!!! [...]

A peek inside YouTube’s copyright identification system

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

yawn2000 posted a rickroll vid… —— Forwarded Message From: Copyright Notice Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 01:10:52 -0700 (PDT) To: [redacted] Subject: New Video Identification Match Dear Member: This is to notify you that your video sisters kissing (twins) has been as containing content that may be owned by someone else. The material identified in [...]

YouTube look ‘n feel upgrades

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

* More clicks to get at the stats. Don’t they know that’s all we care about?! * Recommended for you and “Friend Activity” which includes their favorites. +1 for data mining * “Most active videos” (?) * Redesigned homepage. Cleaner, customizable, nice. * “playlists” now “quicklist”, with actual instructions (finally!!) * “Advanced search” Throw in [...]

How to Buy YouTube Views

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Evan Roth ran an experiment during class last semester: how many hits will $150 buy you? The rough data’s in: about 57k uniques on the page =~ about 44k views on the embedded YouTube video. The video in question being a screencast of the purchase, of course. More info: This was an experiment we did [...]

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