YouTube – The Social Media Guru.
Have you even read my online internet blog? It’s mega-awesome.

You’ve probably already seen this, even though it was published just a week ago.

It’s had nearly two million views in the last week, over 6,000 comments on YouTube itself, and been plugged into 826 blog posts. Among its honours, it’s the #2 – Top Favourited (All Time) – Sport. If it weren’t for Susan Boyle, it would be top video …read the rest of this article

Just watched Be Kind Rewind on PirateCity. In the interests of research, I tested an illegal video service that streams movies for free. The quality is fairly poor – somewhere between YouTube and Vimeo. And not ideally, I watched this widescreen movie in 4:3. Jack Black seems a lot slimmer nowadays.
As I am sure you know, the plot is that …read the rest of this article

I was totally taken by surprise by this one.
(A little further research has revealed that it was created by WCRS, and that there is some controversy over the originality of the idea. What a shame.)

Remember last week, when CBS announced that its YouTube presence had lifted its audience figures? Letterman was up five percent in the month since they’d started posting excerpts on the service.
Well, today, the BBC publishes research that suggests the contrary:

Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said …read the rest of this article

The new Wired has a great feature about the lonelygirl15 story. Lonelygirl15, you will remember, was a hit YouTube vlog about a teenage girl, her family and her ambiguous relationship with her friend Daniel. You’ll also recall that the central character, Bree, turned out to be an actress called Jessica Rose, working with a guy called Mesh Flinders and a …read the rest of this article

It’s always been obvious that watching 5-minute segments of TV programmes on YouTube is likely to increase people’s desire to watch the real thing. Pete Cashmore reports that yesterday, some proof has emerged. US TV network CBS has announced that viewer figures have risen considerably since striking a deal to create their own channel on the video-sharing service. The release …read the rest of this article

YouTube was the 26th most popular site on the Internet in September 2006. Ending my recent responses to the Hitwise Consumer Generated Media report (social networks and photos previously), this is what’s happening in the Web 2.0 video sharing space. Recently acquired by Google, YouTube remains firmly at the top of the video-sharing space, the report says.
Many have attributed the …read the rest of this article