YouTube is bringing back silent movies – by censoring at least some videos that make use of unauthorized copyrighted music. Here’s an example: More examples here and here.  YouTube displays this message under the videos: These videos cry out for remixing with some alternate music, don’t they? via Mashable

YouTube announced today a new project, in collaboration with the US Congress, to bring government videos to the video sharing site: Two new channels were announced: The Senate Hub The House Hub “These YouTube channels have the potential to make Congress more transparent and accessible than ever before,” sccording to YouTube’s Steve Grove, “but only […]

Would you like to know a simple way to make your Internet videos rank higher than 80% of all the videos published? Research firm Forrester has taken a look at the state of search engine optimization of Internet videos, and have found that less than 20% of marketers insert keywords into the filenames of the […]

Eye-Fi has announced that it is developing a way to let users wirelessly upload videos from a digital camera to YouTube and/or to a home computer.

“We’re aiming to do for video what we’ve already done for photos: provide the easiest, simplest way to save and share your digital memories,” says Jef Holove, CEO for Eye-Fi.

Google got some more bad news today about YouTube.  Not only is Warner Music Group pulling all its videos off YouTube – it’s in talks to create an alternate to YouTube for music videos.  According to a report at Silicon Alley Insider: A source familiar with the negotiations tells us that Warner and the three […]

The Associated Press has picked Hulu as its Website of the Year: In the Wild West that is online video, Hulu.com has proven to be a trailblazing answer to how professional content can thrive on the Web. “This is period of great experimentation in regard to media, in regard to online video,” said Hulu chief […]

YouTube has announced two developments: the expansion of their HD player and a test of three new landing pages. Here are the details of the announcement: HD on YouTube Starting today, if you click the “watch in HD” option below any HD-enabled video, the video will automatically play in widescreen – so you can find out […]

The New York Times takes a look today at some of the people that are making real money on YouTube: Cory Williams, 27, a YouTube producer in California, agrees. Mr. Williams, known as smpfilms on YouTube, has been dreaming up online videos since 2005, and he said his big break came in September 2007 with a music […]

comScore released its latest stats today on online media use. Here are comScore’s top ten video destinations, ranked by numbers (in thousand) of videos viewed: Google Sites – 5,373,783 Fox Interactive Media - 519,926 Yahoo! Sites - 363,426 Viacom Digital - 305,258 Microsoft Sites - 286,464 Hulu - 235,096 Turner Network - 228,024 Disney Online - 126,611 AOL LLC - 122,580 ESPN - 104,724 […]

TechVideoBlog has measured the HD qualities of the various video services now offering HD video sharing, and it looks like YouTube and Facebook are now the leaders.  Here are the specs they measured, along with links to example videos: Youtube HD: 1280×720 – 2mbit/s H264 – full framerate – 44hz stereo 254kbit/s AAC audio Facebook […]