YouTube has officially announced their online video editor, and they spared no expense on the introduction. The YouTube Video Editor lets you: Combine multiple videos you’ve uploaded to create a new longer video; Trim the beginning and/or ending of your videos; Add soundtracks from our AudioSwap library of tens of thousands of songs, including hits […]

YouTube has added a new cloud-based Video Editor that brings basic video editing everyone. The YouTube Video Editor lets you do basic clip editing and also lets you swap the audio for a selection of music tracks. Unfortunately, it’s also painfully limited and slow – to the point that it’s hard to imagine doing much […]

Internet video – content stored and distributed over an IP architecture — will eclipse the consumption of broadcast TV by 2020, according to research from The Diffusion Group (TDG). According to TDG data, while the amount of time spent viewing TV has remained relatively stable, the amount of time consumers spent watching online video increased […]

The first episode of Universal Dead – a web series about the undead – is up and it looks like it’s going to be chock-full of hungry zombie goodness. Here’s the synopsis: Earth is ravaged by a strange disease that turns people into mindless murderers. As civilization struggles to survive, a small team of US […]

YouTube has announced that it has reached a new milestone, serving over 2 billion views per day: Today, thanks to you, our site has crossed another milestone: YouTube exceeds over two billion views a day. That’s nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major U.S. television networks combined. What started as a site for […]

Web video distribution and analytics TubeMogul today introduced PlayTime, a new Internet video ad platform that they call “the advertising industry’s first 100 percent transparent video ad network.” According to TubeMogul, PlayTime delivers unprecedented transparency, by letting advertisers compare performance metrics across placements in real-time. “PlayTime is essentially AdSense for brand advertisers, bringing the performance […]

Adobe is going to war with Apple’s iPad, as this Adobe + HP demo video shows. Apple has demonstrated that lack of Flash support isn’t going to keep people from buying iPhones by the millions. It’s betting that the same will hold true with the iPad. The HP Slate demo is pretty slick – and […]

NBC has put out a press release hyping its coverage of the 2010 Olympics. Some of the highlights: They’ve delivered 8.1 million video streams to date; They’ve had 13.6 million unique visitors; and Traffic to NBCOlympics.com is up 200% over 4 years ago. That sounds pretty impressive – until you consider that this Fred video, […]

Dan Rayburn has published an interesting, but savage, critique of YouTube over at Business of Video. In it, he argues that YouTube is stifling innovation and couldn’t survive without Google’s deep pockets: YouTube didn’t contribute to the technology of the industry at all. They haven’t created any codecs, new delivery protocols, created any industry standards […]

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley marked the 5th birthday of the Internet video site today with an official statement at the YouTube blog: When we registered the YouTube domain on February 14, 2005, we set out to create a place where anyone with a video camera and an Internet connection could share a story with the […]