New Delhi: Celebrating its eight birthday, Google's YouTube has divulged an interesting fact. According to YouTube, today, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. This means, users upload a humongous 1,44,000 hours of video every day.
Recently, YouTube announced that the number of unique users visiting the video-sharing website every month has reached 1 billion. That's almost one out of every two people on the Internet.
Millions of partners are creating content for YouTube and more than 1,000 companies worldwide have mandated a one-hour mid-day break to watch nothing but funny YouTube videos, claims the company.
Founded in February 2005, YouTube was first launched in May 2005. Later, Google acquired it in October 2006 for $1.65 billion....
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01:16 PM, May 20, 2013
London: The website and Twitter feed of British newspaper the Financial Times were hacked on Friday, apparently by the "Syrian Electronic Army", a group of online activists who say they support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The group posted links on the newspaper's Twitter feed to a YouTube video, uploaded on Wednesday, which purports to show members of the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front Syrian rebel group executing blindfolded and kneeling members...
08:29 PM, May 17, 2013
San Francisco: Google's YouTube video service is dipping its toe into pay television by starting on Thursday a subscription service with 30 content creators, including children's programmers Sesame Street and Muppet creator The Jim Henson Co, and the Ultimate Fighting Championship. YouTube, the world's largest video website, allows creators to set subscription fees and accept advertisements, at their discretion, for the channels they create. For $4.99 a month, subscribers can...
12:36 PM, May 10, 2013
Los Angeles: YouTube is set to announce within a few weeks a series of channels that will require payment, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. The content on the new pay channels will be in addition to the millions of videos viewers watch for free on YouTube. It's not clear whether the paid videos will come with advertising. The person was not authorised to speak publicly and spoke...
10:03 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs told a Delhi court that the US authorities are unable to "execute" the request for assistance in serving summons to 11 US-based websites, including Facebook and Google, accused of promoting class enmity and undermining national integrity. The MHA told Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja that they have received a communication dated March 20, 2013 from the US Department of Justice according to which they...
07:29 PM, May 03, 2013
New York: YouTube vs TV? YouTube says the battle - if there ever was one - is over. In a flashy presentation to advertisers Wednesday night, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt declined to forecast that Internet video will displace television watching. Instead he declared: "That's already happened." Schmidt said "the future is now" for YouTube, which recently passed the milestone of 1 billion unique visitors every month. But, he added...
11:57 AM, May 02, 2013
New York: For a week in May, YouTube will turn into the biggest open mic on the planet. On Thursday, the Google Inc.-owned site will announce the YouTube Comedy Week, a seven-day cyber extravaganza designed to showcase some of the best comedy across its expansive video platform. From May 19-25, YouTube will be overrun with punch lines, sketches, stand-up routines and - hopefully - a lot of laughs. It's the...
07:03 PM, Apr 25, 2013
New York: For the second time in three years, a US federal judge has dismissed Viacom's $1 billion copyright lawsuit against YouTube, saying the online video site doesn't have to police itself as long as it removes infringing videos when copyright owners give notice. US District Court Judge Louis Stanton in New York ruled on Thursday that Viacom never proved YouTube was aware of thousands of videos Viacom said were...
01:56 PM, Apr 20, 2013
London: Korean pop star Psy's latest single 'Gentleman' has made him a global star, but in his native South Korea the video has been banned by the officials. The Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), a major broadcaster in the country, has reportedly banned the new music video as the rapper is shown abusing public property, reports contactmusic.com. KBS said that the scene doesn't meet its standards as a public broadcaster. It...
10:19 AM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: South Korean rapper Psy's new video, 'Gentleman' has crossed the 100 million views mark. The singer is chasing the success of his own megahit 'Gangnam Style'. 'Gangnam Style', which holds the YouTube record for most views ever with more than 1.5 billion, made the corpulent Korean a global star and one of the best-known faces to come out of the growing K-pop music scene. The 35-year-old's new single...
12:41 PM, Apr 17, 2013
London: Korean pop star Psy's latest single 'Gentleman' has hit 53 million views on YouTube within just two days, owing to the popularity of his hit number 'Gangnam style'. However, "Gentleman", the video of which went online April 13, has a long way to go to catch up with the 1.5 billion views of 'Gangnam style', reports thesun.co.uk. 'Gentleman' witnessed 18 million views just after 24 hours of its release,...
07:25 PM, Apr 15, 2013
A video running viral on Youtube which reportedly shows a woman speaking on a wireless device in a 1938 film could be the proof of the world's first mobile phone. ...
07:55 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Quite like on April 1 every year, Google has lined up a series of April Fool's Day hoaxes. Google released a YouTube clip declaring that the world's most popular video website will shut down till 2023 and also announced its olfactory new feature Google Nose. Google has introduced another video announcing the all new Gmail Blue e-mail client. ...
01:30 PM, Apr 01, 2013
YouTube says it will also select one definitive video as the winner and the result will be announced in 2023. ...
12:05 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Movies available on rent on YouTube are available at prices starting from Rs 50. ...
02:01 PM, Mar 28, 2013
An Oxford University librarian has been sacked and a number of students fined after a recording of dance track - the Harlem Shake - filmed in the university premises, went viral on YouTube. ...
11:16 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Google Inc's YouTube said on Thursday the number of unique users visiting the video-sharing website every month has reached 1 billion, about six months after social media company Facebook Inc also said it had the same amount of users. ...
10:02 AM, Mar 21, 2013
To carve a niche for itself on the social media, the All India Radio (AIR) has launched live streaming of its Urdu service, FM Gold on Youtube and an android based mobile phone application of for its news service. The services were launched by Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari. ...
10:40 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Ashvin Kumar's 'Inshallah, Kashmir' has won the award for Best Investigative Film at the 60th National Film Awards. ...
04:16 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Composer Shekhar Ravjiani was also present at the event and felt that Sinha's effort will help non-film music. ...
04:09 PM, Mar 13, 2013
