President-elect Barack Obama is embracing the Internet to the fullest. Here is his weekly address about the current economic crisis. It was released through a web video in YouTube.
Originally posted on November 16, 2008 @ 10:50 pm
YouTube, PBS is asking you to “Video Your Vote”
YouTube has partnered with PBS to empower American voters to upload their Election Day voting experiences to YouTube.
Starting today, registered United States voters can share their voting experiences via the Video Your Vote YouTube Channel. On November 4, the Channel will serve as the premier online destination for up-to-the-minute coverage from voters contributing videos straight from thousands of precincts across the country.
The initiative educates voters on the entire process and a wide array of issues associated with voting in America, while enabling the world to watch pivotal moments as they unfold. In the first presidential election since YouTube’s inception, this program aims to gather massive amounts of polling place video, with the Channel serving as an online library for Election Day footage.
Some of the best videos will be showcased on PBS television, as part of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer’s Election Day broadcast. They may also be used throughout PBS’ election coverage, both on-air and online. YouTube users are asked to tag all of their Election Day videos “videoyourvote”. Events, for instance, that hinder the voting process should be tagged, “pollproblem”. These videos, as well as those documenting the spectrum of the entire voting process, will be easy to find on the Channel and analysts from PBS’ political team will then review some of them and offer commentary on how the election played out.
Originally posted on October 15, 2008 @ 10:49 am
YouTube gets 5 billion online views from US alone
comScore released its July 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, reporting that Americans viewed more than 11.4 billion videos for a total duration of 558 million hours during the month.
In July, Google Sites once again ranked as the top US video property with more than 5 billion videos viewed (representing a 44 percent share of the online video market), with YouTube.com accounting for more than 98 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 446 million videos (3.9 percent), followed by Microsoft Sites with 282 million (2.5 percent) and Yahoo! Sites with 269 million (2.4 percent). Hulu, the supposedly YouTube killer, ranked eighth with 119 million videos, representing 1 percent of all videos viewed.
More than 142 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 80 videos per viewer in July. Google Sites also attracted the most viewers (92.1 million), who watched an average of 55 videos per person. Fox Interactive attracted the second most viewers (54.9 million), followed by Yahoo! Sites (37.6 million) and Microsoft Sites (32.6 million).
Originally posted on September 10, 2008 @ 12:41 pm
Lance Armstrong dares you to share your story
Livestrong.com, the online destination for health, fitness and lifestyle, announced the launch of its video contest on YouTube entitled, “Dare To Share Your Story.” Contestants must upload an original video describing how they dared to make a healthy or positive change in their life or the life of someone else and post it as a video response to Lance Armstrong’s call out video on YouTube.
The purpose of the contest is to share stories of bravery in daring to overcome challenges to make a change in one’s life and serve as inspiration to others who are looking to do the same.
The challenge will be open for video submissions until 11:59 p.m. PT on September 8th, 2008. Additional rules can be found on the LIVESTRONG.COM channel on YouTube.
Originally posted on August 20, 2008 @ 1:23 pm
U.S. watches 11 billion online videos in April 2008
comScore has released the April 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, revealing that U.S. Internet users viewed 11 billion online videos during the month, with YouTube.com accounting for more than 4 billion of that total. Not surprising at all.
In April, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with more than 4.1 billion videos viewed (38 percent share of all videos), as YouTube.com accounted for 98 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 558 million videos (5.1 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 352 million (3.2 percent) and Microsoft Sites with 268 million (2.4 percent).
Nearly 135 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 82 videos per viewer in April. Google Sites also attracted the most viewers (83.7 million), where they watched an average of 50 videos per person. Fox Interactive attracted the second most viewers (52 million), followed by Yahoo! Sites (37.3 million) and Microsoft Sites (29.9 million).
Originally posted on June 17, 2008 @ 11:22 am
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