Users are now spending more time on YouTube as the site seems to have successfully transformed into a web television service. According to Comscore statistics, there has been an increase of 60 per cent in users’ time spent on the YouTube, compared to one year ago.
Comscore data shows the average time spent by users on YouTube watching videos is now 418.2 minutes per user per month.
YouTube was revamped by Google in December 2011, and since then subscriptions to the ‘Channels’ have …

YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar, speaking at the D:Dive Into Media conference sponsored by tech news website AllThingsD this week, said the company may offer a subscription based video service on YouTube.
 
Kamangar said YouTube has until now focused its efforts on generating revenue through advertizing and to a lesser extent, video on demand sales, but is now turning its attention to a new subscription service that has great potential for monetization, with the website enjoying 800 million …

YouTube has announced that it has reached the mark of four billion views per day.
According to a YouTube blog post, the number of uploaded videos has also increased by a staggering amount, with a 6-hour worth of videos uploaded every minute in 2007, 24 hours in 2010 and this year it has reached 60 hours per minute, which is equivalent to an hour of video for every tick of the clock’s second hand.
“In other words, you’re uploading one hour of video to YouTube every second. Tick, …

Video sharing website YouTube has partnered with Ridley Scott, Scott Free London, the Venice Film Festival and Emirates to launch Your Film Festival, a short film competition in which stories must be 15 minutes long.
 
YouTube was founded in 2005 by three former PayPal employees and acquired by search engine giant Google in 2006.  Ridley Scott is a prolific British film director perhaps best known for his work on Alien, Thelma and Louise, and Gladiator. Mr. Scott expressed enthusiasm …

Video sharing website YouTube announced this week it has launched a major redesign that aims to keep surfers longer by presenting them with channels they can subscribe to.
 

YouTube announces major site redesign

The redesigned website, unveiled on Thursday, displays channels in the wide middle category, which change when a different channel is selected from the left hand pane, and recommended videos on the right. The site makeover follows a series of partnerships with content providers …

YouTube announced on Sunday its offering for artists to sell products directly from the world’s most visited video streaming website.
In a post on the The Official YouTube Blog, senior technical account manager Christian Weitenberner said, “With 800 million people per month coming to YouTube, you have a pretty big stage to share your music, and now we’re adding features to also make YouTube your box office, merchandise table and music store.”
Dubbed as the Merch Store, the new …

YouTube, the video sharing website owned by search engine giant Google, is getting ready to launch over 12 T.V. like channels that will feature regularly scheduled content on subjects like sports, fashion, and entertainment.
 

YouTube preparing to launch regularly scheduled channels.

According to sources familiar with the new offering, YouTube has asked for content to be ready to go within the next 60 days, because it is getting ready to launch the new channels in early 2012.  Google …

Mafia movie classic “The Godfather” was available on YouTube, all two hours and 57 minutes of it, for a short while, until Sony Pictures worked together with the video sharing website to have the account that uploaded it disabled.
 

The Godfather available on YouTube for short time.

Movie junkies around the world have become spoiled by the easy availability of good feature length movies on the internet for free or very little cost.  But it was still quite unusual to find a …

Allen Samuels – A. Samuels to his hip hop fans, is a 55 year old father and casino executive, and he is enjoying newfound success, and attention from a rap video called “Living de Life” on YouTube.
 

Fifty-five year old casino executive and father rap video has attracted over half a million views.

The video features Mr. Samuels, who hails from Newark, New Jersey, showcasing his musical and poetic talents as he raps away about YoYo.. “Living De Life” and he sure does seem …

A new promotional, interactive video created by Coca-Cola Germany’s Interactive Marketing team lets viewers control the trips of an expert skateboarder as he flies through the air, using keys 4 through 9 on the keyboard.
 

Interactive YouTube video from Coca-Cola Germany debuts this week

Viewers can quickly skip through the one minute, ten second video to see the segments they want by using the skip function.  The number keys let the viewer create amusing musical video shorts while …