With YouTube accounting for 99% of its video views, Google ( ) was able to rake in more than 10 billion video views in total for the month of August in the US — an increase of more than a billion views in just one month. comScore also credits the internet giant with nearly 40% of the total market share for all online video views.
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| YouTube is expanding that program to the creator of any video that somehow climbs the YouTube popularity charts. “Now, when you upload a video to YouTube that accumulates lots of views, we may invite you to monetize that video and start earning revenue from it,” Shenaz Zack, a product manager, wrote on a YouTube blog. |
Users whose videos YouTube deems eligible will receive an e-mail asking whether they want their video to be monetized. If they agree, YouTube will begin showing ads alongside those videos. Users will get their share of the revenue paid out monthly. Read more at bits.blogs.nytimes.com |
Mike Hudack, the founder of Blip.tv , just landed a major set of deals to expand the distribution of his Web video network. The biggest deal is with YouTube, which for the first time will allow Blip.tv to place its own ads in the YouTube player on behalf of the Web video creators who use Blip. Hudack is also announcing distribution deals with NBC Local Media for regular TV starting in New York City, Vimeo, and Roku set-top boxes. It is also expanding existing deals to show Blip videos on Verizon FIOS, Tivos, and Sony TVs with Ethernet jacks. |
Now, YouTube is embracing smaller partners like Blip through a trial with a video ad network founded by ex-Googlers called FreeWheel, which allows Blip and others to serve their own ads inside YouTube. Blip still has to approve individual members before they can tap into those YouTube dollars, but once they pass muster they can use FreeWheel to set up their ads once to play on YouTube, Vimeo, Blip, iTunes, or wherever. FreeWheel takes care of the accounting and rev-shares, which gets complicated when teh money gets split so many ways. Blip deos a 50/50 rev share with video creators after payments to third parties like YouTube and FreeWheel. |
Along with the new distribution partnerships, Blip has completely redesigned its video management dashboard from the ground up. (See screen shots below). Web video auteurs can now see in one place how many views and dollars each episode of their videos is attracting. (TubeMogul is powering the analytics). The dashboard lets them batch edit and distribute their videos. They can drag and drop teh videos in teh episode list to reorder them, and the new order is automatically propagated to their RSS feed and all point so distribution. The embeddable Blip video player itself is also now much more customizable. . |
This is VideoBay, a YouTube-like service without the worries and hassles of those annoying copyright takedown notices. |
And if you haven’t guessed by now, behind the service is The Pirate Bay. The new site, according to its operators, is in “beta extreme.” |
Notwithstanding the convictions and likely appeals, The Pirate Bay site continues to operate with more than 20 million users. Instead of licking their wounds, the operators instead are flipping a bird of sorts to prosecutors and the content industry. |
Two weeks ago, they launched a VPN service promising to make file sharers and other internet users more anonymous online. About 180,000 people have signed up for the $7 monthly service. |
 Over the weekend, YouTube launched a new channel dubbed Reporters’ Center, which it hopes will prove to be a good way to educate existing and aspiring citizen journalists on how to report news in ‘the digital age’. The new resource will feature a host of top journalists and media experts sharing instructional videos with tips and advice for better reporting.
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