This will make YouTube even more attractive to aspiring videographers and producers: The videosharing social site’s co-founder Chad Hurley said over the weekend that YouTube would be sharing revenue with its users, the Associated Press reports. He didn’t offer details as to how much revenue or how it would work. More than 70 million videos are viewed each day on YouTube, which is now owned by … [Read more...] about YouTube, users to share revenue
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The legalization of YouTube?
Apparently being acquired for $1.65 billion is good news and bad news for YouTube. As for the latter, there's the ongoing copyright battle, apparently leading to the deletion of tens of thousands of video clips from TV shows, the next challenge being X-rated video, no doubt. But the big news at this point is YouTube's purging of video from Comedy Central, including clips from "YouTube stalwarts … [Read more...] about The legalization of YouTube?
Google + YouTube: A plus for kids
Google's planned acquisition of YouTube could be a step forward for youth online safety on the hugely popular video-sharing site. It'll probably take longer for YouTube to hire a full-time "online-safety czar," as News Corp. did not long after it acquired MySpace, because copyrights and intellectual property are the No. 1 controversy of this high-profile deal. "The purchase was announced after the … [Read more...] about Google + YouTube: A plus for kids
Popular new kid YouTube
YouTube is like the new kid at school everyone wants to meet (or compete with). This week's signs that the video-sharing site has truly arrived are: use of the site by the US government, fresh competition from Microsoft, and deals with Warner Music and ABC. The White House is using YouTube to expand its anti-drug public-service advertising, putting made-for-TV anti-drug videos on the site," the … [Read more...] about Popular new kid YouTube
Teen YouTube star quits
If you worry that young social networkers, videographers, or bloggers in your life are fixated on fame, it might help to give them the story of 18-year-old YouTube star "Emmalina" in the Sydney Morning Herald. "The chatty video blog entries recorded from her bedroom first began to appear in the 'most viewed' rankings … in June and some of her more controversial posts attracted more than 300,000 … [Read more...] about Teen YouTube star quits