Yahoo! Video Search now improved!
Yahoo might be waiting for their search deal with Microsoft begin but they continue to work on enhancing their search services.
The company has now further enhanced their video search engine.
They have now made it easy for web users to search for albums and songs by your favorite music [...]
YouTube U2 event had around 10 million streams!
Variety Magazine claims that the U2 live event broadcast on YouTube was watched through as many as 10 million streams worldwide.
This is probably a record for an online streamed event.
YouTube had this to say about the event: “This was a big win for the YouTube [...]
Abu Dhabi Media Company invests in Vevo
Vevo has announced a new investor in the project.
Abu Dhabi Media Company has become the latest company to invest in this project which aims to launch before the end of the year.
Other investors in the company include Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group.
Vevo CEO Rio [...]
Google: YouTube to be profitable soon
Google has stated that they are closing in on the stage when YouTube would start generating money for them.
YouTube has been a loss making platform for the company. They acquired it at a very high price. And the expenses to operate it are massive.
YouTube recently announced that they [...]
YouTube logo highlights 1 billion views achievement!
Google has been changing their logo on the homepage pretty frequently now.
They have done something similar with YouTube.
Google owned video sharing service YouTube is currently displaying an updated logo highlighting its achievement of delivering more than 1 billion views per day!
Incidentally, it’s also the third [...]
Google AdSense to feature YouTube promoted videos!
Google AdSense has announced that the service would now deliver YouTube promoted videos in the media ads.
The company has now launched YouTube Promoted Videos in AdSense ad units.
This service would enable content providers on YouTube to get a much wider reach on the web.
Currently, these ads [...]
Warner Music Group confirms YouTube deal
Warner Music Group has confirmed that they have signed on a deal with YouTube to provide their content on the popular online destination.
This deal would enable YouTube to broadcast videos from the archives of Warner.
Madonna and Green Day are some of the popular musicians currently signed on [...]
Yahoo Search now plays video inline
Yahoo has announced an improved video searching capability.
The search engine result page would now let the user play the video on that page itself.
So there is no need to open up the video page to check it out.
Yahoo Search page would also show the related videos [...]
Time Warner to provide content to YouTube
Google YouTube is all set to get some fresh media content from Time Warner.
The two companies are collaborating and would share the advertising revenues.
YouTube is already hosting content from other media giants like Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM Studios and ABC.
The video content provided by Time Warner [...]
Google acquires On2 Technologies
Google might have sold their radio advertising business to WideOrbit, but they are investing more in video technologies.
The search engine giant has announced that they are taking over On2 Technologies which is primarily a video technology solutions provider.
The deal is worth around USD 106.5 million.
Google spoke about this acquisition: “Today video is [...]
