A collection of the day’s news coverage of YouTube.
Items of note: YouTube served 5.8 billion videos in December 2009, up 81 percent over 2007; Americans watched an average of 151 hours of TV per month in 2008; young adults (age 18-24) watch video on the Internet about 5 hours per month of online video.
- Don’t Count Out Cable Online (New York Times)
“Comcast and Time Warner are preparing a way to let their customers watch their cable programs on the Internet”
- Cable Firms Look to Offer TV Programs Online (Wall Street Journal, subscription)
“Top cable-television providers and TV networks are exploring a sweeping solution to the threat of online video: putting large numbers of cable shows online, but accessible only to cable subscribers.”
- Tooth movement: David DeVore, the dentist and a video revolution (Times, London)
“Mr DeVore’s decision to put his son up on YouTube for all the world to see marks him as one of the new generation of people who see online video as a routine part of their existence and, increasingly, a way for them to share their lives with others and to express themselves.”
- YouTube Fight Prompts Extra Security at School (NBC-26)
“Students noticed extra security Friday when they got to Franklin Middle School in Green Bay. It’s all in response to a fight that was posted on YouTube. At least six citations have been given out to students for disorderly conduct.”
- Why the collapse of Kangaroo is a ‘huge opportunity’ for Microsoft, (The Independent)
“Ashley Highfield was the king of new media at the BBC. Now, in his first interview since joining Microsoft, he tells Ian Burrell of his plans to make MSN the home of online television.”
- Internet taking piece of cable TV business. (San Francisco Chronicle)
“Jeffrey Lindsay, an analyst with Sanford Bernstein & Co., said though hard figures are not available, he guesses anywhere from 2 to 5 percent of all TV viewers might have cut their video cord or downgraded their pay TV packages because of increased online viewing.”
- Report: Americans Are Watching More TV than Ever, Including Online. (TMC.net)
“According to Neilsen’s “A2/M2 Three Screen Report,” Americans who watch video over the Internet consume another 3 hours of online video per month and those who use mobile video watch nearly 4 hours per month on mobile phones and other devices . . . the number U.S. households who use the Web to watch TV broadcasts increased 100 percent from 2006 to 2008.“
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