Featured comment by Aevolve:
"Interpolation can only do so much, its great for recovering simple data streams but the error probability is far too high for quality video." More »
For YouTube's comedy week, Dane Boe created this music video 'We Didn't Star the Viral' (riffing off Billy Joel's We Didn't Star the Fire) that recaps pretty much all the viral videos that became infamous on YouTube over the last 8 years. You know the usual suspects: Keyboard cat, Star Wars kid, evolution of dance, Charlie bit my finger and oh so much more. Can you recognise them all? Did you watch them all? [Dane Boe via Neatorama] Read More >>
Featured comment by Aevolve:
"As far as possible I attempted to avoid them, the vast majority of 'viral videos' are usually faked stunts, boring people doing boring things, or mind..." More »
The youtube.com domain name was activated on February 14, 2005, and the first public preview of the site went live eight years ago today. So...birthday! Read More >>
Featured comment by FRISH:
"I used to allow ads for Giz, but some of the ads were inconveniencing (especially when I leave many, many taps open) so I decided to block them again ..." More »
Pay-to-view YouTube channels have been rumoured in some form or another for a while, and payments themselves certainly aren't new to Google's video service. You've been able to pay for video rentals and season subscriptions since last year. Read More >>
Charity group Come4, which is looking to launch a non-profit porn site for disabled users, had its advert pulled from YouTube due to the nudity involved and the advocacy of prostitution breaching its terms of service. Read More >>
Featured comment by DoghouseReilly:
"I disagree; Advocacy of slavery (sexual or otherwise) is just wrong. But a consensual sex-for-money transaction? I don't see the problem." More »
Here we go again. After Robin Thicke's Blurred Linesvideo was pulled from YouTube last month, David Bowie's latest video from his new album "The Next Day" has been pulled from YouTube for violating the site's Terms of Service as pointed out by Billboard. But it's unclear why for a number of reasons. Read More >>
Featured comment by FRISH:
"People should get over it. Society has told us that it's wrong to show nudity but really there isn't anything wrong with it." More »
After making do with an "app" that was little more than a hyperlink to YouTube's mobile web version, Windows Phone users finally get a fully supported (though still Microsoft-designed) YouTube app to call their very own. Read More >>
Do not adjust your computer screens. There's no problem with YouTube, other than the fact that it's getting a little misty eyed — by choosing to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the VCR with a little added analogue character on its digital videos. Read More >>
Featured comment by Astronaut_Mike:
"Am I the only one whose parents didn't buy a cheapo VCR...bought one that actually worked and didn't look anything like this...?" More »
If you had the chance to decree that everyone—everyone—would have to watch one YouTube video all the way through and pay attention the entire time, what would it be? It could be something important, historic, funny, dumb, or just something that no one else seems to like nearly as much as you do and you desperately want to force everyone else to see it in the hope that somebody, anybody, gets it the way you do. Read More >>
Last weekend, YouTube yanked a popular music video from Robin Thicke, which featured a number of topless models prancing to the rather upbeat track. The video for "Blurred Lines" had garnered more than one million views before it was found to be in violation of the video sharing service's community guidelines regarding Sex and Nudity. A few days later, the VEVO upload of the same uncensored music video was pulled down about 30 minutes after we first noticed that it was still available on YouTube. Read More >>
Featured comment by 16vmini:
"im more worried about all the F'ing and Geoffing my kids listen on on youtube .. maybe i am old ... lol ..
its mainly those minecraft videos .... m..." More »
Until last week, I'd never actually listened to anything that Robin Thicke had released. Then someone dropped Blurred Lines into our group chat. And, well, I liked it. Because, well, nekkid. Rather than disappear into a cloud of censorship, the YouTube left the video up for six days. Read More >>
It's no secret that the likes of China and Iran censor the internet to within an inch of its life, but now there's a new Big Brother blocking content: Russia. Read More >>
Featured comment by L1ma:
"Blocking the internet is very easy, the entire WWW needs only to be accessable through government owned nodes which access non native state websites a..." More »
Reports from both Fortune and The Guardian indicate that Google is planning to start a subscription music service like Spotify soon. But the craziest little nugget buried in the reports is that YouTube might be getting an ad-free option. Imagine no more Vevo ads. Hello, holy grail. Read More >>
If you somehow haven't had quite enough of the Harlem Shake yet, you might be inclined to surf on over to YouTube and type in "Do The Harlem Shake." And if you were to do that, YouTube'll interpret it as a direct order, and unleash a meta-jig of its own. Can this be the final, referential nail in the viral coffin? Please? Read More >>
Featured comment by Wezley:
"i dont have a clue what it is either ! all i know/guessed is its some kind of dance?! HA! however ive heard its not a specific dance (for examply Gang..." More »
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