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What Will YouTube Do When Paris Hilton Doesn’t Save Them?

ByNalts

TechCrunch’s Marshall Kirpatrick reports that YouTube tomorrow will unveil a number of branded commercial channels– including a Paris Hilton channel being featured on the homepage. This is a surprising and encouraging move from a video site that hasn’t shown any other interesting way to profit from its incredible appeal. Fox has paid an undisclosed sum…

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Another Ranking of Top 10 Video Sites

ByNalts

Here’s another ranking of top video sites (by LightReading.com). I’m reminded that it’s probably time for me to update my ranking of the top revenue-sharings sites. I admire LightReading’s thorough review, but I’m surprised that it overlooked the fundamental differences in business models between these sites. I suppose LightReading is an infrastructure site that is…

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Google XXX

ByNalts

Techcrunch discovers that Google Video may be moving into the adult video arena. Yipes. “People watching Google Video closely noticed a change this week in the upload area – the restrictions on uploading “pornographic or obscene” material is now just a restriction on “obscene” material. They’ve also added a “mature and adult” category to the…

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Extra, Extra: Google Video Preparing to Share Ad Revenue With Video Creators

ByNalts

Google Video is rolling out some new features, including “instant gratification” uploading, and the ability to add comments, tags and ratings. Buried quietly in the “terms and conditions” (which you default accept if you don’t opt out in 5 days) is some language that suggests Google Video is preparing to give amateurs the ability to…

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Google, Ads and Distribution! “No One’s Ever Done This Before.”

ByNalts

Another online video article by WSJ: “Google to Distribute MTV Clips: Deal for Ad-Backed Videos Could Bolster Revenue, Broaden Viacom’s Reach” by Matthew Karnitschnig. How’d you like to have that last name and have to spell it to people 4 times in a row every single day? The Highlights Google will distribute video programming from…

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Creating The Frankenstein of Online Video Sites

ByNalts

Did you ever play the game in college where you tried to imagine the perfect woman, and you’d combine parts from various people you knew? Kinda like building the Frankenstein of women? Jennifer’s nose, Cathy’s eyes, Christy’s… um… personality, etc.? That’s what we’re going to play now. I’ll start. I’m going to create the perfect…

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Making Sure Your Video Gets Found on Google

ByNalts

Most online-video sites are doing a good job of search-engine optimizing videos for Google and other search engines. If you search videos by your title or username, the link to the site should be in the first page results. There are a few things you can do to help ensure this works for you: Select…

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The Sweet 16 Online Video Sites

ByNalts

As an update on a recent report about popular online video sites, here are the latest site rankings of online video sites according to Alexa. Not all of the online video sites allow for uploading and sharing, so they’re not all packed with viral videos. * Refers to those that give you the ability to…