Those tiring of the growing restrictions put by rightsholders on video on You Tube and elsewhere may eventually find a home at The Video Bay. Currently in "beta extreme", the site is the latest brainchild of the folks behind the Pirate Bay; and if their mounting problems in Swedish courts weren't already enough, this is sure to add to their legal bills.
"Both Live And Drunk Coding"
"Don't expect anything to work at all". reads the simple front page, and a test drive shows that almost nothing does. But the plans are ambitious.
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YouTube is reporting that in the last six month uploads from mobile phones have jump 1700%; and since the iPhone 3GS with video came out last Friday uploads have increased by 400% every day.
YouTube reports that the growth is being driven by three overlapping developments:
- new video-enabled phones
- improvements in upload flow when posting from a phone
- a new feature that allows videos to be easily shared on social networks.
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Rather then a big splashy make-over, YouTube has been rolling out an ongoing series of changes and improvements that marketers and uses should pay attention to.
- Download MP4 Files of Your Own Videos: You no longer have to panic when your computer crashes and you lose the original files of videos. Find the video you want in YouTube's "My Videos" and hit the "Download MP4" button to save the MP4 file of the video back to your new computer.
- A More TV-Like Experience: One new feature hides the player control bar when viewers are in full screen for a more TV-like experience. You can also "pop out" any video by clicking on a button and it will open in a new window, without any of the surrounding features or videos. This feature won't work when embedding has been disabled.
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April 2009 data from the comScore
Video Metrix showed that U.S. net users viewed 16.8

billion online videos during the month, a 16% increase over March. A significant increase at YouTube contributed to the gains
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YouTube Accounts for 40%In April, Google sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with 6.8 billion videos viewed (40.7% market share), a 15% increase over March. YouTube accounted for more than 99% of all Google videos. Fox Interactive ranked a distant second with 513 million videos (3.1%), followed by Hulu with 397 million (2.4%) and Yahoo! Sites with 355 million (2.1%).
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Sony Music Entertainment (SME) has signed on to VEVO, the Universal Music Group (UMG) led and YouTube powered premium music video and entertainment service. The announcement was made today by Doug Morris, Chairman & CEO of UMG, and Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, SEO of SME. Terms were not disclosed.
VEVO is designed, in part, to give partner labels more control and revenue than YouTube does currently. Content will be available on YouTube through a newly created VEVO channel, on VEVO.com and through a VEVO embedded player. The service will also serve as a syndication platform for other sites.
In addition to SME and UMG, VEVO is exploring additional strategic participation by third-party investors to join this innovative entertainment platform as equity partners.
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Microsoft announced that it will open its Zune video service to the Xbox LIVE this Fall. Microsoft also unvieled its newest portable media player, the Zune HD. Designed to compete with the popular iPod Touch, the Zune HD combines built-in an mp3 and video players, an HD radio receiver, HD video output, an OLED touch screen, Wi-Fi and an internet browser.
More details:
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I doubt that my father ever got his music recommendations from Walter Cronkite, but that's exactly what NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams hopes to provide with
BriTunes, a new web only feature which he announced recently on the TV broadcast.
"Okay, so I didn't name this thing, but I did come up with the idea," says Williams. "I have always loved identifying good music and good groups - discovering them early (bar bands are best) and following them...
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Who are all those people watching your videos?
Why do they seem to love one video and not another?
YouTube Insight launched a year ago offering useful analytics. Whether you want to know how old your audience is, how many times your most viewed video was rated last week, or which minute of your clip is most engaging, YouTube Insight provides the answer.It's reached via a small link on your YouTube Account page and from there the interface is very intuitive. A feature launched this week enables export of your data.
Where to start? Try comparing the view count for different videos side by side, mapping out where your viewers are coming from over time, or comparing discovery sources by country.
Watch a video overview after the jump.
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