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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