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 …

Today, TED, the organization behind the inspiring and world-changing TED Talks has officially launched its TED Ed YouTube channel featuring 12 videos. TED Ed is an initiative dubbed “Lessons Worth Sharing” that seeks to transfer the same phenomenal success that the TED Talks have had so far to the educational arm of the organization.
The initiative will see lessons ranging from symbiosis to aliens to aviation compressed into ten or less minute/s animated clips. The lessons …

Smartphone apps like Facebook, Flickr, and  YouTube are accessing and reading personal text messages on users’ mobile phones, and other personal data even when the phone is not being used, according to a report in The Sunday Times this weekend.
 
Some in the industry are calling The Sunday Times report sensationalistic, inaccurate,  bad reporting, applying a broad brush FUD label to underscore their disdain for their view that the paper is praying on people’s privacy fears – FUD …

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 …

Google quarter results are out and they are not as rosy as expected. Coming on the back of major acquisitions such as those of AdMob and Motorola Mobility as well as the economic crisis in the Eurozone, Google ended up fetching fewer dollars per click although the overall number of clicks increased over the same period. Google investors will be concerned because the decline in ad revenues signifies that Google, always seen as an invincible money-making juggernaut, is after all not so invincible …

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 …

Global news organization Reuters has launched a new YouTube channel called ReutersTV boosting is footprint on the popular video streaming site owned by internet titan Google.
ReutersTV was launched by Reuters on Tuesday and offers 10 shows to be featured on the YouTube channel.
ReutersTV is but a part of the overall plans of Reuters for YouTube.
Meanwhile, the news organization describes its ReutersTV channel as: “Hard-edged reporting, insight and analysis – Reuters TV creates …

Online video sharing is big and Yowie know this. This is why the online video chat provider has jumped into the online video sharing and recommendation space with the release of its Facebook live chat app. The service will allow users to talk to each other as they watch videos. Yowie sees this as an opportunity to tie in its video chat service with social media dynamics that more or less rule the Internet these days.
This launch comes behind the launch of similar services such as Google Hangout …

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 …

The account Microsoft uses exclusively to post Microsoft videos on YouTube was hacked on Sunday, various reports note.

Microsoft’s YouTube channel was hacked on Sunday. Image: Roel Van Gils / Flickr (CC)

According to Mashable, after the hacking was noticed on Sunday morning, all of the videos on the Microsoft YouTube channel have been wiped out.
Furthermore, even recent ad campaigns by the Windows OS maker have been removed, the site says.
What replaced them were short videos soliciting …