Tag: YouTube
Sesame Street YouTube channel gets filthier than Oscar the Grouch following porn hack
Sesame Street's YouTube channel, a popular online destination for kids, was hacked in the afternoon of Sunday 16th October, with the entire contents of the video-hosting page replaced with hardcore pornography. Accessible for around 20 minutes before YouTube pulled the…
YouTube and Manchester City FC join forces for content partnership
Manchester City have become the first Premier League football club to sign a content deal with video streaming kings YouTube. The club, who produce around 100 youTube videos each month, get control over rights-owned or club-created videos in the…
YouTube to offer scheduled content in 2012, just like real TV…
Remember the days before VOD TV shows online, or Sky+ freed us from the tyranny of TV schedules? Remember how YouTube liberated our goggle-box sessions? Well, in something of an about turn, YouTube are now lining up a set of…
Pre-roll ads no problem for 70% of YouTube visitors
YouTube's new TrueView advertising proposition, allowing users to skip an advert once 5 seconds of it has been viewed, has been a great success according to figures revealed at the Media360 event in Manchester. 70% of YouTube viewers so far…
Royal Wedding to be streamed live on YouTube
Google have just confirmed that the Royal Wedding will be streamed live on YouTube, giving everyone with an internet connection the ability to view the regal nuptials as Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot. The coverage of…
Page as Google CEO: The changes so far
It's been a full working-week since Larry Page returned as Google CEO, taking over from Eric Schmidt after a ten-year absence from the post. Major changes are already underfoot at Google as a result, with a greater focus on…
YouTube TV network planned; $100 million investment expected
YouTube are set to join the growing ranks of online video services that are planning to start their own web-based TV networks. Google are thought to be investing some $100 million into creating a 20 channel-strong network that will create…
VIDEO: LG G-Slate teased by minor YouTube celebrity
Viral marketing – it may not be flashy, but it gets the job done. LG are choosing some rather strange ways of teasing us with details on their forthcoming G-Slate tablet. Last week they handed over the G-Slate to K-Pop…
YouTube trialling skippable ads on premium content
YouTube are to bring skippable advertisements to their premium videos in a new trial format called TrueView. The Google-owned VOD site currently features compulsory adverts at the beginning of videos, usually around 30 seconds in length before the main content…
Stop Drunken Updates With The Social Media Sobriety Test
We have all come home from a big night out and started drunkenly tweeting or updating Facebook, only to regret it in the morning. In an effort to put an end to those late night bouts of drunken social…
