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Dubbed the “Super Bowl Social Media Command Center” by Raidious CEO Taulbee Jackson, the Indianapolis digital marketing firm will be handling all communication regarding the Super Bowl with 16 full-time employees and 30 volunteers, mostly journalism students from Butler University, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Ball State University. Jackson moved Raidious employees into a brand new office for the event and… Read More

A day after news emerged that video streaming website YouTube now gets a colossal four billion video views a day, rival Vimeo announced it has undergone a major overhaul of its site and will begin rolling out the changes to users over the next few weeks. The website posted news of the changes on its staff blog on Tuesday. “Today is a big day — one of the biggest in the short-ish history of our small-ish company,” Vimeo’s Andrew Pile wrote in the… Read More

Announced on the Official Google Blog earlier today, Google will be simplifying how the privacy policy is structured across more than 60 different Google products on March 1, 2012. Users will definitely benefit from the simplicity of a single document regarding privacy instead of sixty policies, but may not like the company direction stated within the blog post. As outlined in the revised privacy policy and terms of service, any user action on… Read More

Google's ubiquitous video-sharing service YouTube currently serves more than 4 billion video views every day, the company told Reuters. This is a 25 percent increase over the past eight months, according to Google. Google attributes the boost to an increase in distribution avenues, like smartphones and tablets. Approximately 60 hours of video is now being uploaded to YouTube every minute, a jump from the 48 hours of video that users… Read More

Announced on the official TiVo blog earlier this week, the DVR service company is rolling out a new user interface for owners of the TiVo Premiere, TiVo Premiere XL, and TiVo Premiere Elite. Called version 20.2, the new update overhauls the previously translucent high definition grid guide and live guide as well as introduces a mini-guide, info banners, speed improvements, a revision to the discover bar, improvements to the search algorythm and… Read More

If you fancy yourself as a bit of a storyteller, then you might be interested to know about YouTube’s latest project. And by storyteller, we don't mean people who can read bedtime stories to their little ones in an impressive range of voices and accents – we mean original, engaging tales that could captivate an audience of movie goers. YouTube announced details of the Your Film Festival on Thursday, and here’s the deal: you submit a… Read More

News agency Reuters launched a new YouTube channel on Tuesday, boosting its presence on the Google-owned video streaming website. ReutersTV forms part of YouTube’s plans, announced last October, to boost its current channel line-up with lots of new, originally produced content. The news provider says content on its YouTube channel aims to showcase “Reuters’ 3,000 award-winning journalists [while delivering] investigative journalism, concise… Read More

With services like Netflix and Hulu convincing web surfers to settle in for streaming video programming, the Wild West of cute cat and “dude gets hit in the crotch” videos that is YouTube is being forced to adapt. A new profile of the video portal and one of its top figures, Google's Robert Kyncl, in The New Yorker explores the history of the service and looks at how a coming change will take shape in 2012 and beyond. In… Read More

Likely announced during CES week, Warner Bros Advanced Digital Services is prepping a photo sharing service called Out My Window according to a report from Fusible. Users can visit www.outmywindow.com and enter an email address to be notified when the photo sharing network launches. Using the tag line “Share your view at the speed of life,” the one-page site also tries to market the concept with “A perfect picture. The urge to… Read More

Netflix may be down, but it's not out. The streaming and DVD rental company announced today that its more than 20 million members worldwide watched a combined total of more than 2 billion hours of television and movies during the last three months of 2011. This equals out to an average of about 33 hours of video watching per month for each user — which isn't hard to imagine considering the increasingly popular practice of watching… Read More

Announced within an official blog post earlier today, Google rolled out a method of comparing two videos called YouTube Slam. Designed by a team of developers within Google Research, the video discovery tool places videos into five different categories including dance, music, bizarre, cuteness and comedy. The user clicks a category and launches a new page with two competing YouTube videos. After the user watches both videos, they click the blue… Read More

Racking up over one million YouTube views in approximately 24 hours, a YouTube user named Goobie55 posted a video (shown below) recording a FedEx employee chucking a Samsung computer monitor over a fence in order to deliver the package. The camera was mounted next to the front gate and pointed at the doorbell buzzer designed to view anyone visiting the residence. The video captures the FedEx employee removing the Samsung monitor from the back… Read More

A lot has happened this year, but if Internet analytics are any indication, none was as important as 14-year-old Rebecca Black's hilariously terrible song, “Friday.” Not only was “Rebecca Black” the “fastest rising” Google search term globally in 2011, but her music video for “Friday” was, not surprisingly, watched more times this year than any other video on YouTube. According to the… Read More

Kids today need their visual stimuli, and Google just made it easier for teachers to play videos in the classroom. YouTube has launched a network setting that slims down the streaming video service and still gives school administrators access to a community of educational videos free of distractions. Public schools typically block websites such as Facebook and YouTube, in a way cloistering students and at the same time impairing teachers'… Read More

Apple's iTunes might be the 800-pound gorilla of the digital music industry, but upstart CD Baby has long been a favorite of independent artists, enabling them to sell their CDs online and get their tracks into iTunes (and Amazon, and Spotify, and more) without having to land a record deal or pact with a major distributor. CD Baby recently expanded into Facebook, enabling artists to create storefronts and pages there, and now the company… Read More