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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
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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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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 Direct Forgets Payments
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Updated: Univision, YouTube Strike Video Pact
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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
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...
Video Usage Online Spiking
BNET
- 2009-06-19
According to a report released by Nielsen late last week, overall online video usage, measured as time per user, rose in May to 188.7 minutes for an annual growth rate of 48.9 percent over May 2008. That would be over three hours of online video viewing by the 133,797,000 users...
Foreign Media Banned in Iran so Twitter and YouTube Rock On
BNET
- 2009-06-16
News coverage of the situation in Tehran and other Iranian cities today has reverted back to the early stages of the rebellion last Saturday, i.e., once again we have to get most of our news from social media. The reason is that the Iranian government has today banned foreign media...
YouTube's Coming of Age
BNET
- 2009-04-17
It's hard to imagine a business able to lose ~ $500 million a year without any apparent concern, unless of course it is owned by the richest company in the world, Google. But, of course, that is exactly the case for YouTube. Here is...
YouTube and the Nine Dwarfs
BNET
- 2009-01-05
There's a gorilla in most market segments, of course, even those that rely on guerrilla marketing, and online video is no exception. Thus, despite competition from every angle, Google's YouTube continues to dominate its space to a significant degree. The most recent ComScore figures indicate that YouTube has just over...
What Do Wired, Obama, N.Y. Times, YouTube, and Sam Zell Have in Common?
BNET
- 2008-11-07
Many media executives, struggling to adapt, continue to focus too much on the tools of new media as opposed to opportunities those tools create.  I'm continuously hearing about how this company or that is going to go "multimedia." Too often, what this means to the exec in question is telling...
Online Video Ad Growth at Hulu and YouTube
BNET
- 2008-09-04
With so many trends and counter-trends sweeping the media industry it can be difficult to recognize which ones to watch. One "keeper," though, is the growth of online video. We reported earlier this week about Google's success in identifying pirated videos on its YouTube site, and then...
The Sound of YouTube's Pirated Videos? Ka-ching!
BNET
- 2008-08-28
YouTube as a money-maker? Read on. First, let's establish some context. Anyone trying to build a content business on the web is or should be aware of a set of irksome contradictions: Creating lots of truly original content is prohibitively...
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