YouTube’s worst idea to promote its 6 s video format with classic books

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YouTube thinks (correctly) that a six seconds video format will be more efficient for advertising than the 30 seconds commercials. But the way to promote this new format was unfortunate, at least: to adapt the essence of the most known … Read More

Why to post videos on YouTube

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Type of business: Subsidiary Type of site{ Video hosting service Founded: February 14, 2005; 12 years ago Headquarters: 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, California, United States Coordinates: 37.628101°N 122.426424°W Area served: Worldwide (except blocked countries) Owner: Alphabet Inc. Founders: Steve Chen, Chad … Read More

YouTube paid $1 billion for royalties in 2016

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YouTube has announced that it paid $1 billion in royalties over the year 2016. The platform tries to renegotiate its agreements with the record companies. The artists consider the remuneration too low considering the total earnings accumulated by YouTube. The … Read More

Google and Yahoo! top search keywords for 2007

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Big differences between the two statistics for top search keywords for the last year. It seems that Yahoo! search was used mainly for entertainment, while US people searched with Google for a more diversified terms, especially social networks. As specified … Read More

Recognizing text in images, patent by Google

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Time for patents. After Microsoft with the “Wish list”, now it’s time for Google to have published its patent, “Recognizing text in images”. The patent was filed by Google with the World Intellectual Property Organization in June 2007 and published … Read More

New Google tools for webmasters: Video Sitemaps

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Google Video team joined the Sitemaps to introduce Video Sitemaps, allowing an XML submission of video assets for your site. This new tool will ease your self-hosted videos to compete with the big sites, like YouTube, when someone use Google … Read More

To ban the Spirit

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More and more countries, governmental departments and companies start banning the most influential social networks. It starts with YouTube (Beijing, Thailand, Morocco, Australia, US governmental departments, etc.), MySpace, Facebook, and some days ago, in accordance with Mashable, Twitter, banned by … Read More