Video sharing website YouTube, which celebrates its sixth birthday this month, reported this week that its views per day have increased to 3 billion, a whopping 50 percent increase compared to last year.
 
The rate at which videos are uploaded to the website recorded an even more impressive 100 percent increase  over last year: 48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.  This is a 37% increase in the last six months.

YouTube thanked the YouTube community for their …

A forty second video clip showing a puppy named Dunder growing up to be an adult dog has been endearing YouTube viewers and dog lovers around the world this week.

Created by Byron Louie at Remediestudio.com

 
The video consists of series of still shots starting with young Dunder sitting on a grey cement floor next to a metal coffee table, first looking away from the camera with long floppy ears and a distracted look. Then as the still shots rapidly fly by, Dunder is usually looking …

Google’s YouTube unit is increasing ways for advertisers to reach viewers with the launch of First Watch, a program that will show preroll ads on most users’ first view of a video every day.

First Watch will also show ads when someone clicks on a link of a video a friend sent, or if they typed in a URL address beginning with youtube.com/[website name] instead of searching through www.youtube.com for videos from the website.  YouTube’s Baljeet Singh said “we started thinking about how …

YouTube has launched a memorial channel dedicated to slain journalists, reports AFP.
Project Journalists Memorial Channel  is the fruit of collaboration between Google , which owns YouTube, and the Newseum (Washington DC) Memorial, dedicated to journalism. The new channel is intended to combine all the videos on journalists who were killed in hot spots or have been killed in connection with their official duties. YouTube has invited all the users to participate in activities of the …

Jennifer Lopez claimed the number one spot in YouTube’s newly launched YouTube 100, with her single “On the Floor” featuring Latin rapper Pitbull.  YouTube introduced its first music chart to give recognition to the most popular music videos for both amateur and professionals.  The first YouTube 100 was published on Thursday.

YouTube said in its blog that it introduced the new YouTube 100 chart, which will be published every week, to “measure song traffic across official music …

Google is set to challenge Netflix’s and Apple’s dominance in the video-on-demand industry with a report saying that YouTube may soon launch a movie rental via streaming service.
According to a report from entertainment site The Wrap, Google is finalizing deals with major motion picture studios including Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal, and Warner Brothers.
According to the sites sources who were described as “knowledgeable executives”, Fox, Paramount and Walt Disney may have …

A Houston church’s easter dance has “gone viral” on the net especially on YouTube. The video, Dance Your Shoes Off, which was part of celebrations at the Second Baptist church in Houston, Texas. The church was trying to find how such a video go viral, and they sure did find out the power of the social media.

Dance Your Shoes Off – YouTube

The idea which basically started of with teaching the members to dance was later engaged with finding the right song. Josh Moore, …

Royal Wedding T-Mobile Spoof

In this age of spoofs and parodies, here’s a royal one. The Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton which is going to be conducted on April 29th of this month was spoofed in a video which turns out to be from T-Mobile.
The video was only uploaded on YouTube on April 15th, and till now, it had gathered over 7.2 million views. Yep, that is around a million or more views per day it has been online. The video was spoofed in a really funny way …

If you have not heard about a UFO event that happened one month ago in Siberia, that was because there was not enough proof to establish the occurring like any other claimed UFO event, and nobody paid any attention to it. But now, another thing, is getting real.

Dead Alien Video from Russia?

Supposedly, a dead alien’s body was found near a place in Russia’s Republic Buryatia, which is a place near to the claimed UFO citing last month.
The video that is running around the …

In a recent study conducted among college students and professors alike, a clear majority of the participants picked YouTube as the most useful and utilized social media system for educational purposes. This is in stark contrast to the expectations of major semantics agencies and also internet observers.

YouTube for Education

The discovery was in a recent survey which was conducted by the Brabson Survey Research Group and Pearson. The survey found more potential and usage in the …