You may recall that YouTube started rolling out a new player and site design not so long ago. The redesign, announced about a month ago, made several changes to the video hosting website. Probably the change with the biggest impact was the switch from a light themed played to a dark themed player. Back then [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google Video Closing Down, What You Need To Know
Before Youtube, Google tried to conquer the video hosting niche with a service that they called Google Video. When they discovered that they could not compete with Youtube, they bought that service and made people forget all about Google Video. There are actually many similarities to Google’s attempt in past years to get a foothold [...]
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Youtube Ups Video Limit to 15 Minutes, So What?
The news was just posted over at the official Youtube blog that the video length limitation on Youtube has been increased for “normal” Youtube users. The limit has been raised from 10 to 15 minutes. We want YouTube to be the best place to upload video. Without question, the number one requested feature by our [...]
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Tudou.com Online Video Hosting Site
Tudou.com is the first entry in our new site review series that takes a look at very popular sites that you may have never heard about before. Tudou is the most popular online video hosting site in China with more than 100 million video views and 40,000 new videos per day. While that does not [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Upload Videos To Multiple Video Hosting Services
Many video content creators want to make sure that they videos reach the largest audience possible. To achieve this they upload their videos to multiple video hosting services such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook or MSN Video. Doing that manually can take quite some time. It would involve accessing the service’s website, logging in, selecting the [...]
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Spammers Flood Youtube With Junk
It seems that spammers have finally found a new target for their campaigns: Youtube. If you have lately performed a search on the video hosting platform and decided to sort the results by upload data you might have been in for a shock depending on your search query. Searches for popular games or applications for [...]