YouTube (317 articles)

YouTube's movie rental experiment earns it $10,000

YouTube's recent foray into movie rentals was not a major money-spinner for the world's biggest video site as results of the experiment have been revealed.

The Google-owned company has said the five films, which were available for a period of 10 days, saw 2684...

Fujifilm FinePix Z70 fashion cam launches for social networkers

Fujifilm has updated the FinePix Z35 with the announcement of the coming soon FinePix Z70 that offers what's claimed to be easy web uploads.

Aimed at the "fashion conscious" after a bit of "modern day functionality"
the Z70 lets users "mark" a picture...

YouTube cleans up its video pages

YouTube has rolled out a selection of improvements to its video pages, aimed at decluttering the experience and making sure that there's fewer distractions while you're trying to watch that sneezing panda for the twelfth time.

There's a new player interface, with...

YouTube offers movie rentals

YouTube is to offer movies to rent - but it's not a move to challenge the online rental market just yet - it's a limited selection brought about as part of its sponsorship of the Sundance Film Festival.

"While YouTube has offered an easy and economical way...

YouTube to stream live sports coverage

It seems the 10-million-strong audience success of the live stream of a recent U2 concert has turned Google's head towards the possibility of offering live broadcasts. While the U2 gig was a one-off, it's been revealed there are plans in the works for YouTube to begin...

VIDEO: Google launches Nexus One YouTube channel

Google is making the most of its online video vehicle YouTube to promote its just-launched Nexus One phone.

The Android handset now has its own channel on the world's biggest video site with an intro video, getting started video guides and currently 10 how-to...

YouTube latest to offer URL shortener

Admitting the service is being introduced as it's "all the rage", YouTube has joined a host of high profile sites, such as Google and Facebook, in offering a direct link shortener option.

Designed to "ensure that those useful URLs you're sharing don't take...

YouTuber gets Hollywood contract

A video producer from Uruguay has been offered a multi-million-pound Hollywood contract on the basis of a 4-minute film that he posted on YouTube.

Fede Alvarez's short, titled "Ataque de Pánico!" features giant art deco robots blowing up Uruguay's capital, Montevideo....

YouTube mulls subscriptions for premium content

YouTube may soon offer premium content on a subscription basis as it looks at more ways to make money - and to keep on the right side of studios, record labels and broadcasters.

Although the Google-owned site has struck an accord with some major players in...

YouTube reveals most viewed vids of 2009

YouTube is offering a tidy list of the five most-viewed YouTube videos from the last 12 months, giving us a snapshot of what it is we've all been watching online.

Unsurprisingly, SuBo tops the list at a staggering 83 million views ahead of the number two slot...

Google opens caroling channel on YouTube

Google is indulging in a little of the Christmas spirit and has opened a caroling channel on YouTube that'll allow the world's finest webcammers to invade your monitor, singing jaunty songs about the most wonderful time of the year.

It's being sponsored by TJ...

Concept microwave lets you watch YouTube

Here's a nifty idea. It's a novel concept for a microwave called the Castoven that integrates a 10-inch LCD display to the front of the device, in place of the grille that normally allows you to see you food spin round like a record.

That screen is connected to...

VIDEO: Cello iViewer does iPlayer, YouTube

Cello showed off its iViewer TV today, which promises access to BBC's iPlayer service without the need for any additional boxes. You simply plug it into your network and away you go.

This brief promo video gives a quick run down of the services on offer, including...

Connected iViewer television gets iPlayer built-in

A new connected television has been announced from British co Cello Electronics that offers access to the BBC's iPlayer catch-up, on-demand service built-in.

Needing no set-top box or games console, the iViewer TV connects to the Internet via Ethernet or an...

UK's first internet-connected Freeview HD set-top box announced

3view has announced the launch of the world's first internet-connected HD set-top box with free-to-air capabilities.   

Ahead of Humax's unveiling of a similarly HD effort, the new set-top box will mean consumers can tune into the coming-soon high definition...

VIDEO: Girlfriend gets violent over PS3 gaming

Here's a warning if ever there was one that playing too much on your games console could end you in trouble.

Seems one girlfriend was a little too miffed that her boyfriend was playing on his PS3 too much so after having enough decides to talk matters in to her...

Channel Five now on YouTube

Channel Five has followed Channel 4 in signing a deal with YouTube to stream content to the video sharing site for free for UK customers.

YouTube watchers in Blighty will be able to catch up on some of Five's Australian content such as Home and Away and Neighbours...

YouTube offers stripped-down Feather interface

YouTube has heeded the calls of those who complain that the video sharing site is beginning to get a little bloated. It's offering a beta "feather" edition of the site, that strips out almost everything but the video.

A few other features remain - comments are...

VIDEO: Samsung and YouTube highlight best vids of 2009

YouTube has announced an advent-style calendar counting down some of the most memorable videos of the year on YouTube.

Sponsored by the Samsung U10, the New Years "Countdown" will reveal one new popular video each day throughout the month of December.

Sony Online Service iTunes rival announced

In Japan, Sony has outlined basic plans for a new online store that, if the plans pan out, will manage to rival iTunes, Amazon, YouTube and Flickr - at least for Sony customers.

Sony Online Service, as it's been dubbed at this early stage, will offer digital...

VIDEO: YouTube gets automatic captions

Google has used its automatic speech recognition tech, as seen in Google Talk, to offer machine-generated automatic captions across all of its YouTube videos.

"The captions will not always be perfect", says Google, "but even when they're off, they can still...

VIDEO: YouTube gets 1080p HD functionality

Google has announced that its YouTube video-sharing site is going 1080p. It's available to test right now on some videos, but will be going live for all users at some point next week. Until then, you can see some 1080p content by appending "&fmt=37" to the end of the...

Vimeo vs YouTube - which is the better video service?

It's all too easy to go to YouTube as a knee jerk reaction whenever you want to find a video on the internet. In fact, the term has passed into common parlance to refer to any user-generated internet film footage much the same as Google has come to refer to search. But...

YouTube intros skippable pre-roll adverts

YouTube has begun a "small test" of a new kind of advertising on the site, in an attempt to finally meaningfully monetise the billion videos it serves on a daily basis.

While initial testing for pre-roll adverts on the world's most popular video site did not...

Google launches data Dashboard

Google, perhaps reacting to criticism that it's keeping a whole load of your data in disparate places, has launched a "dashboard" that displays all the info that the search giant is keeping on you, and allowing you to modify that data.

The service, which can be...