YouTube Goes After Higher Quality Content and Footage
YouTube has said that it will be sponsoring higher quality content and supporting ultra-high quality digital video. These two announcements come just days after the launch of the beta version of YouTube Leanback, the next phase in the company’s… Share and Enjoy: Technorati Tags: Beta Version, Digital Video, High Quality Digital, Launch, Quality Content, youtube
Can YouTube Make the Jump to Your TV With Leanback?
YouTube is not only expanding its reach on mobile devices, but it has its eye on your living room, too. Today, the company is launching the beta version of YouTube Leanback, the company’s biggest attempt yet to… Share and Enjoy: Technorati Tags: Attempt, Beta Version, Living Room, Mobile Devices, youtube
161 of the Best Videos on YouTube
We spend a lot of time here at Mashable finding the very best videos that the Internet has to offer. It’s a tough job wading though hundreds of thousands of videos, but we’re committed to finding the ones we think… Share and Enjoy: Technorati Tags: Hundreds Of Thousands, Lot, Mashable, Tough Job, Videos Internet, youtube
YouTube, HP and Guggenheim: Send Us Your Most Creative Video
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Hewlett-Packard and YouTube today launched YouTube Play, an international contest to find the world’s most creative new video. … Share and Enjoy: Technorati Tags: Creative Video, Guggenheim Foundation, Hewlett Packard, HP, International Contest, Solomon, youtube
VISA FIFA YouTube Channel Aims to Create Longest “Gooool!” Cheer
With the World Cup kick-off just about one week away, football (or soccer, as it’s known stateside) fans are already going wild in anticipation. Today Visa… Share and Enjoy: Technorati Tags: Anticipation, Cheer, Fifa, soccer, Visa, World Cup, youtube
Is Google Discriminating Against “Cougars?”
A website called CougarLife, a dating network targeted toward “women in their prime,” has called Google out for sexism because the search engine has classified CougarLife ads as not safe for families. But CougarLife’s CEO says Google doesn’t make the same distinction for “sugar daddy”-type dating sites, whose ads can be seen by anyone. A [...]
LinkedIn Launched Seven Years Ago Today
It took a tweet from LinkedIn Senior Director of Corporate Communications Kay Luo for us to find out, but it’s true: LinkedIn turns seven years old today. While LinkedIn was founded in December of 2002, the actual website didn’t launch until May 5, 2003. That makes it older than Facebook (2004), Twitter (2006), YouTube (2005), [...]
Apple Didn’t Kill Flash, HTML5 Did
The battle over Flash and its role (or lack thereof) on the iPhone really came to a head today when Apple CEO Steve Jobs published an open letter expressing why his company won’t support Flash on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen spoke with the Wall Street Journal to deliver his [...]
“Toy Story 3? Builds Online Buzz with 1980’s Inspired Commercials [VIDEO]
Pixar is taking viral movie marketing to a new level with Toy Story 3 by creating authentic looking vintage toy commercials for one of the new characters in the film. This is just the latest example of Hollywood using viral video to blur the lines between fiction and reality. YouTube user MrCrazycommercials has uploaded lots [...]
M.I.A’s “Born Free” Video Pulled by YouTube
The music video for British artist M.I.A.’s new single “Born Free” has been pulled from the U.S. and UK YouTube sites — not for any legal or copyright reason, but because the video’s content was deemed too extreme for the site. The video depicts an American police or military force storming an apartment complex, destroying [...]
20 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed
Big changes in the social media landscape this week mean there’s a lot to discuss. These posts highlight all the latest and greatest tools, tips, trends, and strategies for navigating the ever-changing social waters. Included in this week’s edition is some cautionary advice about Facebook and dating, some great mobile app lists for spring, and [...]
Explore Space with Buzz Aldrin on Your iPhone
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin [iTunes link] has his own iPhone app, and it’s packed full of information, news, images and videos related to space exploration. It’s currently the one of the most popular apps in the Apple App Store’s Education category. “Buzz Aldrin Portal to Science and Space Exploration” is divided into five sections: Space Buzz, [...]
How Companies Should Approach the New Twitter Advertising Model
Dallas Lawrence is Chair of the Social and Digital Media Practice at Levick Strategic Communications. Connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence. By now, everyone has heard about Twitter’s move into the paid advertising world. This week’s announcement that companies will be allowed to pay to have their posts lead search results on the popular social [...]
Monetize HTML5 Video with mDialog’s Ad Platform
Today mDialog debuts a new video service platform designed to support HTML5, live streaming and dynamic ad-insertion in video streams. Publishers and content providers can now not only encode and serve live stream or Video On Demand content in HTML5, but they can also insert ads or b-roll into those videos factors like geolocation, dayspotting [...]
Top 10 Funny Dog Videos on YouTube
There are plenty of funny videos on YouTube but the ones that get us spitting our tea all over our monitors and give us the best giggles are animal-themed affairs. Man’s best friend doubles as a clown on notable occasions, many of which this selection of YouTube favorites captures to great comedic effect. Keep reading [...]
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