Yahoo Video: The $6 Billion Black Hole Implodes
A source at Google tells us YouTube has seen a rush of résumés from engineers at Yahoo's rival video site, after a wave of layoffs last week that devastated the team. Is Yahoo Video done?
The Shot That Sparked the YouTube Riots
A transit cop shooting a New Year's Eve rowdy, face down, in Oakland, Calif. turned into a national story thanks to YouTube, long before local newspapers and TV stations caught up to it.
The Flimsiness of YouTube Celebrity
YouTube promises a chance at instant viral fame. But what's that worth in the real world? Ask the guy with 109 million views who can't get recognized at a nerdfest.
Laid-off eBayers get goodbye video all wrong
When a tipster told me that workers at eBay France had created a lip-dub video, my hopes were high. But I should never have expected great things from eBay.
The Internet's funny business tunes out
Superdeluxe, Turner Broadcasting's ha-ha video site, has finally shut down. Is anyone going to miss it — or the rest of the Web's other humor-clips startups?
Why Pamela Anderson can't beat Google
Remember AltaVista? The search engine, long swallowed up by Yahoo, once hired professional trashy babe Pamela Anderson to win our affections. What that terrible TV ad tells us: TV ads don't build Web brands.
Parry Gripp, the Weird Al Yankovic of YouTube
Could Parry Gripp be the best thing that ever happened to YouTube? The man behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer's theme song is turning Internet-video disaster into visual punk rock.
Report: Sarah Palin destroying Web video
We've uncovered what's really killing the online-advertising business: Sarah Palin! Or rather, the lack thereof. Traffic at Hulu, NBC's YouTube wannabe, tumbled in November without the Web's favorite hot lady governor and VP candidate.
Making money on YouTube? Not so fast
There's gold in them thar YouTubes! People are making literally thousands of dollars a month! What a fluttery Times trend piece doesn't say: Most of YouTube is a creative desert with zero moneymaking potential.
Why Disney's funding Chinese pirates
If Chinese viewers want to watch Disney's
Hannah Montana — no accounting for global tastes — they can do so on 56.com, an online-video site akin to YouTube. The show is pirated. But does Disney really mind? Its startup-investment arm, Steamboat Ventures, .Eric Garland, CEO of an online piracy research firm, told the …
GM's scare tactics fail to win over YouTube users
General Motors has posted its call for an auto-industry bailout
directly to the Net, with predictably disastrous results. GM marketers have clearly fallen for the myth of Internet PR — that taking a company's message directly to the people through social media will give it a much friendlier reception than if it is…
Hulu wants me to tell you they're catching up with YouTube
You've never heard of media analyst company
Screen Digest. Keep that in mind when you stumble upon a few dozen news reports today that claim "Hulu ... a smaller upstart backed by News Corporation and NBC Universal ... with Google’s YouTube in US advertising revenues next year." Any reporter who reads that sentence in…
President Change dumps radio for YouTube
This week's Democratic Party weekly address by our audaciously hopeful President-elect will not be on boring old NPR.
Barack Obama's going to upload to YouTube, reports the . The WaPo says the Obama administration will also make "online Q&As and video interviews" part of its communications strategy. Think this is…
YouTube ads must be big in Japan
YouTube has never been this exciting. And I don't mean the puppy videos. The video-sharing site is frenetically experimenting with every imaginable form of advertising, from prerolls to rollovers to overlays. There's even that staple of late-night television — headache pills! For this, we can thank Ben Ling, the…
Vudu CEO to spend more time with his lovely wife
Vudu, which makes a nifty little set-top box that no one is buying, beat the rush by . Today, an alert tipster notes that CEO Mark Jung has disappeared from the company's management page. Jung's has also been updated, putting Vudu in past tense. San Francisco's scored this shot of Jung with Mrs. Jung at a fundraiser…
Viacom turns MySpace bootlegs into an advertunity
A year ago, Viacom sued YouTube for one billion dollars, claiming YouTube was not blocking uploads of copyrighted Viacom material from Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1 and others. Today, MySpace will join YouTube in running
ads targeted to Viacom-owned clips, instead of deleting them. , a Palo Alto startup,…
Hulu's surprising lesson
Jason Kilar, the CEO of online-video site Hulu, has
rediscovered a truism: less is more. Hulu, which is mostly owned by NBC and News Corp., runs fewer ads on the TV clips it licenses from its TV-network parents than they air when they broadcast the same shows. And yet the ads are more effective. This could simply be a…
No poking your television
"Some of the tools that allow people to build communities and socialize on Internet sites like MySpace and Facebook are making their way to the living room,"
reports the . Awesome! That means we'll be able to throw a sheep at Tina Fey while watching , right? Wrong. The article actually talks about using Xbox Live as a…
Veoh lays off 15, still lacks reason for being
An online-video industry insider emails us to tell us that Veoh has laid off 40 percent of its staff. On Monday afternoon, LinkedIn had
94 people listed as Veoh employees. PaidContent says that the company laid off 15 employees from its Russian office in St. Petersburg, and is hiring stateside. Veoh has raised almost…
