http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5BF9E09ECEC8F88F YouTube today announced support for videos shot in 4K (4096 x 3072 pixels) – a mega HD format designed for screens up to 25 feet wide. This level of resolution may seem like overkill – but devices like the iPhone are demonstrating that more pixels per inch is better, and TV screens are likely […]

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 […]

When Steve Jobs introduced the new iPhone 4, one of the most interesting announcements was that iMovie was coming to the iPhone. As popular as the iPhone platform is, adding HD video capture and iMovie to it could create a new vlogging & video podcasting explosion. Now new details are starting to come out on […]

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 […]

Variety reports that YouTube wunderkind Lucas Cruikshank is making the jump to television, taking his “Fred” character to Nickelodeon via a series of TV movies: Fred: The Movie is based on the YouTube character Fred Figglehorn, created and played by Lucas Cruikshank. “Fred” centers on a socially awkward and emotionally immature kid with a wild […]

YouTube released a mind-boggling statistic today – users are now uploading 24 hours worth of video every minute. This is up 20% from May of last year, when YouTube announced they were getting 20 hours of video uploaded every minute.

The number of unique viewers of online video increased 10.5% year-over-year, according to The Nielsen Company. While still impressive numbers, the explosive growth of a few years ago appears to be gone, replaced by slower, but still respectable organic growth. Other highlights of Nielsen’s stats: People are watching more video – the number of streams […]

YouTube has introduced a new feature – automatic Closed Captioning – and it’s starting to look like they may have brought All Your Base Are Belong To Us into a new decade. Automatic Closed-Captioning uses speech recognition technology to translated audio from videos into text. It’s a great idea – but it often has unintentionally […]