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Founded in February 2005, acquired by Google Inc. in 2006, YouTube is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. People can see first-hand accounts of current events, find videos about their hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky and unusual. As more people capture special moments on video, YouTube is empowering them to become the broadcasters of tomorrow.
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NAICS Code Other Motion Picture and Video Industries: 512199
Recent Events
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YouTube Launches Automatic Captions; Great for Accessibility and Search
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Analysis: Hulu, Vevo And The Rise Of Streaming Video
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VoltaicHD? Cuts High Definition Movie Editing Times by Up to 80%
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YouTube Direct: YouTube uploads inside your own site
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YouTube partners with local TV stations
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YouTube Direct lets news organizations publish citizen videos
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Univision Strikes Deal with YouTubeÂ
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YouTube Launches YouTube Direct Tool - Quick Facts
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YouTube Launches Virtual Assignment Desk, Connects News Organizations and Citizen Reporters With "YouTube Direct"
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YouTube Launches Virtual Assignment Desk, Connects News Organizations and Citizen Reporters With "Yo
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YouTube Direct Forgets Payments
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Univision, Google YouTube Say 'Si' To Partnership
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Updated: Univision, YouTube Strike Video Pact
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Turkey to face European Court on YouTube ban
Financial Times
- 2009-11-30
Turkey's controversial censorship of the internet video sharing site YouTube is to be challenged in the European Court of Human Rights, a Turkish internet users group announced on Monday.According to Mustafa Akgul, head of Turkey's Society for Internet Technology, the society has taken the step having exhausted all legal...
How Will Chrome OS Make Money? The Secret Is YouTube
BNET
- 2009-11-20
Yesterday Google showed off its forthcoming Chrome OS, leaving many to wonder how exactly the company will monetize it. The answer: it won't. Since Google derives 97% of its revenue from online ads, it simply wants you using a computer that is always online. Specifically, it wants you on a...
NPR Adds Video Clips and Citizen Reporters Via YouTube Deal
BNET
- 2009-11-18
In a new deal announced this week with YouTube, National Public Radio will now select user-generated videos and embed them on its website. This is the latest in a series of moves to establish NPR as a multimedia company. by David Weir
YouTube Tries To Win Over News Sites With A Video Upload Tool
PaidContent
- 2009-11-17
Google’s YouTube is making another pitch to media organizations, this time with YouTube Direct—a tool that makes it easy for news websites to solicit videos from their visitors. YouTube Direct lets visitors to a news website upload YouTube videos right from that site; news orgs can then vet the...
Warner sells own ads on branded YouTube videos
Strategy Eye
- 2009-11-12
Warner Music videos are returning to YouTube with extensive branding after YouTube owner Google signed a deal with the record label. Warner’s agreement allows it to sell its own advertising against the videos and take the majority of revenues. Warner...
YouTube Praises Itself On Its Google Birthday
PaidContent
- 2009-10-09
Google’s attempts to turn around negative perceptions of its $1.6 billion purchase of YouTube continue: In a post marking the three year anniversary of the deal, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley praises the site’s “tenets” and announces it now gets “well over a billion views a day.” The post is...
Warner Music Hands Over Video Ad Sales To Outrigger
PaidContent
- 2009-10-08
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) has a vision for how it’s going to make money with digital content this time around—and it includes a few key tech platforms and sales partners. On the sales end in the U.S., the company is giving the reins to Outrigger Media, a New...
The Sound of "Ka-Ching!" is Finally Coming to YouTube
BNET
- 2009-10-07
The conventional wisdom among those following the media industry has long been that YouTube is a long-term losing proposition for its owner, Google, and that the video-sharing unit does not have any viable business model. Fourteen months ago, in challenging those assumptions, I suggested that Google was...
Report: YouTube Beefing Up Video Rights Detection
PaidContent
- 2009-10-07
YouTube is reportedly looking to please broadcasters by enhancing its Content ID database through deals with three video transcoding companies.NYT says the site will on Wednesday announce deals with Harmonic, Telestream and Digital Rapids: “YouTube said it would be able to identify clips almost immediately after a program or...
Google Paid $1 Billion More For YouTube Than It Thought The Site Was Worth
PaidContent
- 2009-10-06
So, how much of a premium was Google (NSDQ: GOOG) willing to pay for YouTube back in 2006 to make sure that none of its competitors got control of the company? In a deposition, cited by CNET, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that while he believed that YouTube was...
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