YouTube is removing about 1 in 12 of its popular videos, according to stats collected by YouTomb. YouTomb is tracking the videos because of concerns that YouTube may be pulling videos that may incorporate copyrighted material under fair use. Currently: 223,187 YouTube videos are being monitored by YouTomb; 4,395 of these videos have been taken […]

YouTube’s newly-minted News Manager Olivia M. has announced the launch of a citizen journalism channel on the site, called Citizen News. Explains Olivia, the proliferation of inexpensive and easy-to-use media tools (blog engines, video cameras, multi-function mobile phones, etc.) has sparked a boom in user-generated news coverage. “[T]here’s an amazing amount of news being reported […]

Senator Joe Lieberman Monday called on Google to remove Internet videos produced by terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda from YouTube. “Islamist terrorist organizations use YouTube to disseminate their propaganda, enlist followers, and provide weapons training,” said the Senator said in his letter. “YouTube also, unwittingly, permits Islamist terrorist groups to maintain an active, pervasive, and […]

YouTube has updated YouTube Insight, a free tool that lets anyone with a YouTube account view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload to the site. Included in the update: One is a new demographics tab that displays view count information broken down by age group (such as ages 18-24), gender, or a combination […]

U.S. Internet users viewed 11.5 billion online videos in March 2008, a 13-percent gain versus February and a 64-percent gain versus March 2007, according to figures from ComScore. All Your Views Are Belong To YouTube In March, Google Sites ranked as the top U.S. video property, with more than 4.3 billion videos viewed (38 percent […]

Google has released a new free Mac OS X app, Vidnik, that’s designed to make it easy for users to record video, add a Title, Tags & Description and upload it to YouTube: You can use Vidnik to create a video diary, or just to quickly record a video comment to attach to an existing […]

TimeTube is a mashup that puts YouTube videos on an interactive timeline. Search for any phrase, and TimeTube presents the results on a timeline. You can scale the timeline to show more time or more detail. Timetube also lets you view the results as a list, in Flip Book mode or on a map.

HP today announced that it is making the video content of YouTube available through its MediaSmart “smart television” products, including the upcoming MediaSmart Connect digital media receiver and the high-definition MediaSmart TV. HP joins Apple and others in a growing field of companies trying to make viewing Internet media on your television as easy as […]

Family media firm Entertainment Rights has announced deals that will bring a variety of classic cartoons to the Web via YouTube, Joost and Babelgum. The launches will see Entertainment Rights provide all three platforms with a selection of retro programming, including: He-Man She-Ra Trapdoor Felix the Cat Rocky & Bullwinkle The Archies Fat Albert Casper […]

CNBC has published a great interview by Maria Bartiromo with Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt. In the interview, Schmidt says that figuring out how to make money off YouTube has become the company’s top priority: Bartiromo: Let me ask you about YouTube and MySpace. YouTube has these phenomenal growth rates. What do you think is […]