In this week’s edition of our weekly viral videos: the Taiwanese are at it again, what the Tron Holiday Special might have looked like, and the reason many of you are stuck in the Northeast right now.
China is sending a warning to VoIP sites by labeling Skype illegal, saying only companies native to the country can offer the service.
In this week’s videos: the Christmas edition!
A group of fans have made a real-life parody of Call of Duty: Black Ops, complete with knifing, kill cams, teabagging, and pwnage.
In this week’s edition of our weekly videos: creepy laughter, the Metrodome rejects Brett Favre, and legos have no pity!
We really have no clue how this happened, but Antoine Dodson is pushing past his 15 minutes of fame, into the annals of history. He’s racked up yet another randomly ridiculous award. YouTube released its list of the most-watched videos of the year, and unsurprisingly, Antoine Dodson and The Gregory Brothers’ “Bed Intruder Song” was [...]
Former hit maker turned radio personality Keith Washington is under scrutiny for conducting an unauthorized interview with ailing Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin. In a video posted on You Tube, Washington is seen on the phone asking Franklin for an exclusive interview to “tell fans that she is ok.” At that point Franklin declines and [...]
Around YouTube headquarters, there’s a stat that management likes to throw around to make it clear that the company isn’t resting on its laurels. No, it isn’t the fact the site is the world’s second largest search engine or that its users upload 35 hours of content per minute. It’s that the average user spends around 15 minutes per day on YouTube. That would be an impressive amount of engagement for just about anything else, but it pales in comparison to the five hours that people spend sitting in front of their TV sets watching cable (yes, seriously). And make no mistake: YouTube wants to take some of that time for itself.
Today, the site is taking an important step toward that goal as it improves its Leanback product with a key new feature: personalized channels. LeanBack, which launched in July and is integrated into Google TV, lets users hit ‘play’ and then sit back and watch an endless stream of YouTube content with no input required. In short, it’s YouTube TV. And now it’s personalized TV — something that no cable network out there can match.
Yep, you read that right. Today, YouTube is officially launching TrueView, a new ad format that lets users skip over ads they aren’t interested in — and advertisers are actually okay with it.
It’s a new format that YouTube has been testing for a while now, and it’s a bit different than what you’re probably used to. When a TrueView ad unit begins playing, you’ll notice a five second countdown timer — as soon as that’s up, you’ll see an arrow that will let you skip the remainder of the ad and get back to the content you wanted to see, or you can choose to keep on watching the ad. No kidding.
Directed by Zia Mohajerjasbi.
Since it snowed, the Seattle duo decided to shoot another video. Seems like a good enough excuse to me.
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