YouTube Partner Program Hits the UK
January 31, 2008
YouTube announced the expansion of the YouTube Partner Program late last year, to give content creators and easy way to generate revenue from their videos. Now they are rolling it out into the UK.
Like the Internet itself, the YouTube community crosses borders and cultural boundaries. As part of our ongoing plan to reflect international user contribution to our service — we’ve already localized our service for 18 countries — we’re excited to announce that once again we are expanding the YouTube Partner Program, this time by rolling out the program internationally. First stop, the United Kingdom. Now anyone living in the UK can apply to become a partner at uk.youtube.com/partners.
The program has grown significantly since its initial launch, with millions of video views each day earning revenue for our partners. We look forward to bringing the YouTube Partner Program to more international users in the near future. To where will we expand next? Stay tuned…
A New And Improved YouTube For Mobile
January 25, 2008
YouTube has announced the official debut of YouTube for Mobile, featuring a new and improved mobile website, m.youtube.com the new improvements include…
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Millions of videos: YouTube for Mobile now features tens of millions of videos, which includes most of the videos already available on YouTube.com and your own uploaded videos.
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Community on the go: You can now access your YouTube account, your Favorites, your own uploaded Videos and your favorite Channels. You can also share, rate, and comment directly from the mobile website to other YouTube users.
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Mobile phone uploads available within moments: Now if you upload videos from your phone to YouTube via email/mms, they will appear within moments on both m.youtube.com and www.youtube.com. This means you can easily share videos you capture on your phone with your friends and family. All you need to do is create a mobile profile at www.youtube.com/mobile.
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Global: Global: YouTube for Mobile is available and localized for the UK, Italy, France, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand, Germany, and Russia.
In addition, they are also releasing a beta version of a downloadable application. It’s different from the YouTube for Mobile website (m.youtube.com) because it is a Java (J2ME) application you install on your phone, whereas m.youtube.com you access via your phone’s web browser. The app is available in US and UK English and supports the following phones:
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Sony Ericsson k800, w880
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Nokia e65, n95, n73, 6110 navigator and 6120 classic
To download the app, simply point your phone browser to m.youtube.com and if your phone’s one of the above, you should be prompted to download and install the application.
User Generated Content on TV Becomes a Reality
December 17, 2007
Oregan Networks, has today released a technology feature that makes it possible for consumers to access and control Adobe® Flash® streaming video directly on TV, thus broadening entertainment and communications options for the mass market audience of TV viewers. Oregan Media Browser now seamlessly delivers user generated content, such as YouTube and MySpace, as well as facilitating search of such media via universal and specialized search engines, including Blinkx and Google.
With its implementation, Oregan addresses the critical issues that have obstructed a larger scale uptake of Flash video on TV: video streaming latencies, and high memory and CPU power requirements. To achieve a smooth TV viewing experience during progressive streaming of Flash video content over broadband, Oregan’s media player works behind the scenes, improving the ‘Quality of Service’ by intelligently caching the stream as it arrives, thus enabling the video codecs to perform more efficiently.
Oregan’s success to date has been defined by its core offering: a slimline media streaming engine which utilizes Oregan’s advanced W3C standards-based TV browser as a user interface technology. The company’s philosophy is based on the principle that a user interface on TV is ultimately a means to locating and consuming desired audio-visual content, regardless of source. This approach has motivated the technologists at Oregan to develop an ‘intelligent’ media browser that streams and efficiently renders commercial rights-managed high-definition content and user-generated video, regardless of whether it’s part of a home video collection or is delivered in real-time from one of the social networking sites or commercial movie rental services.
TF1 to Sue Dailymotion & YouTube
December 15, 2007
French TV Network are reportedly about to sue YouTube and Dailymotion in the coming weeks for allowing copies of its shows to be uploaded online.
According to Le Point, TF1 claims, a total of 38.97 million euros to Dailymotion and demands that it withdraw the videos in question subject to a penalty of EUR 10000 per infringement from the time when justice will be done.
To calculate the damage, TF1 estimated that for 100 videos viewed free, paid services video-on-demand (VOD) lost 20 legitimate sales.
YouTube gets some updates
December 15, 2007
YouTube have been working into the small hours to push through some new features and improvements and here they are…
NEW VIDEOS TAB
We’ve merged the Categories and Video browse pages into one new, easier-to-navigate home for video search. All the old search options can be found there, along with a new “Spotlight” section that allows you to scroll through featured videos. You’ll find some design improvements on the Channels and Community tabs as well.
MOST ACTIVE & PREVIOUSLY POPULAR
The Videos tab now includes two new viewing options. Click “Most Active Today” and you’ll see the current day’s most buzz-worthy titles, which can then be filtered by category. Click “Previously Popular” to find the most-viewed videos from one week ago or one month ago.
CHANNEL RESULTS IN SEARCH
YouTube search results now include videos and channels, making it easier for you to access the content you’re looking for. When you enter a search term, highly relevant channels may be displayed at the top of the results page.
MUSIC SUBCATEGORIES
Our Music section is now broken down into genres such as Rock, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop, Classical, and more. This will make it easier to find and promote all sorts of music videos on the site.
RSS LINKS ON VIDEO BROWSE PAGES
To stay up to date on the searches you check frequently, subscribe to our video browse pages by clicking the RSS link located beneath the categories list.
PROFILE PICTURE
You can choose any image you want to represent your channel, instead of a video still. Just click the “Upload an image” option on your Account page.
SUBSCRIPTIONS UPDATE
Closed and suspended accounts will now be automatically removed from your subscriptions. If you were subscribed to several closed/suspended accounts, you will notice a one-time large drop in numbers as your list is updated.
COMMENTS VOTING OPTIONAL
Now you can choose whether or not you want to allow users to vote on comments made on your videos (thumbs-up/thumbs-down feature). You can select this under a new “Comment Voting” section for both Upload and Edit Video and sharing options.
Your local correspondent now presents another installment of YouTube News! Take it away pzottolo…
YouTube Expands Partner Program
December 10, 2007
YouTube have released plans to expand the Partner Program
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Recognizing YouTube users for their creativity and their role in building YouTube is of the utmost importance to our team. That’s why earlier this year we launched a pilot of the YouTube Partner Program, our way of enabling some of the most popular and prolific original content creators within the YouTube community to earn money from their videos. These partners decide which of their videos they would like to generate revenue on YouTube, and in turn, they receive a portion of the revenue generated from ads that run next to those videos. Even in this limited release, the program has been an amazing success – already, millions of video views each week are earning revenue for our partners.
But we’re just getting warmed up. Today we’re announcing that we are expanding the YouTube Partner Program. Now, anyone living in the United States or Canada can apply to become a partner at www.youtube.com/partners. (We’re looking forward to rolling out the program to additional international markets soon.)
We feel it’s important to reward our most dedicated community members: those who are regularly uploading original content to YouTube. In evaluating applications, we will focus on the users who have built a significant audience on YouTube (as measured by video views, subscribers, etc.) and who consistently comply with the YouTube Terms of Use.
We previewed this new application process to a select group of users who previously expressed interest in becoming partners — over 100 of these users have already been added to the program, such as tayzonday, hotforwords, apauledtv, and peteandbrian.
As always, our goal is to provide a forum for people to connect, inform and inspire others across the globe. We hope that by expanding the YouTube Partner Program, more content creators will reap rewards from their work and be able to produce even more of the original videos that have made YouTube so successful.
