A few weeks back, I mentioned that YouTube and Google were indexing YouTube’s closed captions and subtitles. In fact, YES – both Google and YouTube ARE indexing videos for text that is contained within closed captions and subtitles. In this post, I would like show you why you should be taking advantage of YouTube’s closed …
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for: ‘July, 2010’
YouTube Launches Leanback – A Mouse-Free Interface For Internet-Ready Television
I wrote back in May about YouTube’s announced Leanback interface—designed to help you seamlessly shift to watching YouTube content on your television. It was a relatively detail-free announcement, as I recall, but on the heels of the Google TV notice, it was definitely intriguing. Well, today the intrigue ends. YouTube has officially launched Leanback, and …
May 2010 Online Video Advertising Insights & Viewing Breakdown – ScanScout
Another month has come and gone and ScanScout has put out its report on the state of online video for May 2010. The report continues to provide some valuable information for those serving up videos as well as video advertising.In the US California topped the locations for most videos watch followed by (in no real …
Online Video Pushes Microsoft Xbox LIVE Sales Over $1Billion
What do you get when you take the most popular online gaming console network and marry it to online video? Massive piles of cash apparently! Microsoft has announced that Xbox LIVE, the online network for the Xbox 360 console, has topped sales of One Billion dollars! Sure, they sell a lot of things on that …
YouTube Updates Mobile Site To Be Faster, Feature-Rich, & HTML5 Friendly
YouTube has unveiled a new version of their mobile site, and the changes are pretty significant. The new mobile site is faster, more touch-friendly, more HTML5-friendly, and it has a lot of new features. YouTube claims to serve 100 million video playbacks per day to mobile devices, which is an alarmingly high number. I can’t …
