Google, possibly eying subscription music streamer Spotify's 6 million paying users, may be introducing a music streaming service of its own.
According to new data, everything that you do on every website besides Netflix and YouTube combined generates about the same amount of peak web traffic as those two sites alone. Netflix itself is bigger in every metric than HBO.
For the cord-cutters and cable-company haters out there eagerly awaiting the next era of television, in which you no longer have to pay your provider for a bundled package of junk you never watch, YouTube officially launched 14 of its rumored pay-to-subscribe channels on Friday. It's not top-shelf, but it's a start. Just ask Washington.
The Financial Times reports that the long-rumored paid subscription model is coming to YouTube as early as this week. The strategy will help YouTube compete not only with other online outlets but also with major networks like CBS.
The streaming music service Spotify is giving ones of its biggest competitors $400,000 per day to advertise on its homepage.
YouTube made a big announcement on Wednesday night — ten digits big to be exact. The video-sharing startup that spent its early days operating out of an apartment above a pizzeria now boasts one billion users.
During the aftermath of yesterday's scary NASCAR crash, a video emerged on Youtube taken mere feet away from where one of the car's tires landed in the grandstand. It was an amazing, fan shot video of what happened. And then Youtube and NASCAR pulled it on copyright grounds.
Billboard is folding YouTube into their algorithms, making the Hot 100 a better reflection of popular songs as pop music — and making "Harlem Shake" the new No. 1 single. But many musicians are worried that this shift toward streaming will slash their paychecks even more.
YouTube's parent is reaffirming its support of the music video as a viable Internet commodity with a new investment in its big-media cousin Vevo, one of YouTube's most visible partners.
As content providers continue to intimidate tech companies with a couch-potato conundrum, the latest innovation in the war to win your living room is not some new gadget from Apple or Netflix — it's a protocol that helps our screens talk to each other.
After another year of big ups, a few downs, and the same old viral hits, YouTube is still the undisputed king of Internet video. Can Google keep you surfing long enough to transform YouTube without breaking it?
Youtube released its view counts earlier this week for its biggest channels, and people who watch these things noticed that some major record companies had their numbers drop by a whopping 2 billion views. So, where the heck did they all go?
The "We the People" section of the administration web site has been flooded with 32 separate petitions since the Newtown shootings, and early Friday the president released a video response as another vehicle for pushing new legislation.
So, you thought you had a traumatic childhood. Were you ever abducted by one of the world's deadliest birds of prey? This tiny toddler from Montréal just was.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
A court in Moscow ruled today that the anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot are "extremists" and that any website that continues to host video clips shot by and of them should be blocked.
YouTube will cancel at least 60 percent of its current programming for next season, which means 96 of the 160 channels it created over the last year will no longer get funding from the site.
Harry and Charlie Davies-Car, stars of their hit amateur Charlie Bit My Finger video, will appear in new “original programming” in a deal between viral video management firm Viral Spiral and online video distributor Rightster.
Digital music streams could harm the environment even more than compact discs – so green-minded operators should introduce caching, or even ship their entire catalogues on a single chip.
Everyone gets freaked about technology sometimes, screaming "Skynet is coming! Skynet is coming!" even though we know that's not true. Facial recognition software freaks people out ("The machines can recognize us!" they say), and today Facebook sparred with congress over their new software.
Politico caught Senate candidate Richard Mourdock accidentally uploading three pre-recorded YouTube videos in which he responds to all possible outcomes on the Supreme Court's ruling on the validity of health care reform.
Here is a video posted on YouTube yesterday of two young British people singing a cover of the Faith Hill song "This Kiss." Just some random thing, two kids having a laugh, right? Well, except look: This video already has over 80,000 views after only a day. How is that?
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Image-sharing site Pinterest has been in negotiations for months with photo service Getty. A breakthrough could dispel some of the copyright questions hanging over the hot startup — but one expert says not to hold your breath.
A video of South Carolina AFL-CIO President Donna Dewitt smashing a piñata with the face of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is going viral Tuesday, and though she tells The National Review's Katrina Trinko she doesn't regret the game, she probably should.
Uploading Beastie Boys' never-before-seen live performance on Chappelle's Show to YouTube seemed like such a fitting tribute to the late Adam Yaunch (a.k.a. MCA). That is, until Viacom took down the video for copyright infringement.
As they look to take a huge bite out of traditional TV’s nearly $50 billion in annual advertising spending over the next two years, big digital video companies Yahoo and YouTube are taking particular aim at the women’s lifestyle programming segment.
Following its predicted path as the MTV of the Internet, YouTube has started something called The Next Vlogger initiative, which sounds a lot like MTV's Wanna Be a VJ contests.
We're heartbroken to report that the viral video of a Dutch inventor flying through the sky on a pair of handmade wings is a complete fake.
Now that we know way too much about Bashar al-Assad's personal life, we need to extend a warning so that his regime doesn't end up knowing too much about yours.
Internet companies look to old television formulas as they create original content for the Web.
You can tweak the settings; you can educate yourself about the settings; but you cannot opt out of Google's data collection. That is, unless you stop using Google altogether. Let us show you how.
It took Lana Del Rey a month to go from a "wack-a-doodle chick" to the "perfect antidote" to other pop stars according to a profile in T: The New York Times Style Magazine by Jacob Brown, which described the singer as "a skinnier Adele, a more stable Amy Winehouse."
Like most YouTube watchers, you probably stopped thinking about Charlie and Harry, stars of the 2007 "Charlie Bit my Finger" video, as soon as the 56-second clip ended, but they actually have lives outside YouTube.
People wondered Monday whether Obama has found in Google+ "hangouts" his "fireside chat" -- a new medium through which he, like President Roosevelt with the radio, can uniquely connect with citizens.
An optimistic-sounding press release "authorized by Julian Assange" announced that the WikiLeaks founder "will be hosting a series of in-depth conversations with key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries from around the world."
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention, but today in honor of the holiday, it's all Christmas and puppies. Merry Xmas!
Even as YouTube has focused on making itself a high-quality programming hub, YouTube's top 10 most viewed videos of 2011 proves that good old viral video still rules the Internet.
Wow. In a video clip being passed around today, TV personality Pat Robertson reveals that he has never heard of macaroni and cheese, and asks, "Is that a black thing?"
Everybody wins in Disney's new partnership with Google's YouTube to produce original content — everybody except the cable companies, of course.
Say you found a great article on the Internet. Which network should you share it on?
The labels believe TubeFire has violated copyright laws
A new study yet again shows that Internet procrastination has its benefits
Porn has always been a problem for user-generated websites
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Everybody's excited about Obama's Twitter town hall. But what's the real deal?
A new Google ad tracks Bieber's rise to stardom on YouTube, a Google product
NMATV tries to make a viral video out of Obama's recent, adorable viral videos
If a new YouTube channel isn't part of the re-election campaign, it should be
A third of all bandwidth in North America and growing is now devoted to the site
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