The next time you click on a YouTube video, you might be asked to pony up some cash before it plays. The Google-owned online video site is getting ready to enter the subscription business, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The Internet’s dominant source for online videos will allow content creators to charge [...]
‘Gangnam’ Rapper Charts Another YouTube Hit With ‘Gentleman’
April 16, 2013 | Posted by
TOKYO - South Korean rapper Psy’s new video, “Gentleman,” rocketed up the YouTube heights with more than 82 million views on Tuesday, chasing the success of his megahit “Gangnam Style” after smashing the previous record for first-day views for songs. “Gangnam Style,” which holds the YouTube record for most views ever with more than 1.5 billion, made the corpulent [...]
YouTube Shutting Down Operations?
April 1, 2013 | Posted by
It turns out that YouTube was just a big contest. According to the YouTube blog, the site, which was launched in 2005, was just a way to find the best video in the world. And today, eight years later, it is closing the competition. The site will stop taking submissions on Tuesday, April 2 at midnight [...]
Harlem Shake Video Lands Wells Fargo Employees in Trouble
March 26, 2013 | Posted by
A Wells Fargo spokesperson says the bank does not approve of a Harlem Shake video shot inside an Atlanta branch that has gone viral on the internet. More than 140,000 people have viewed the video on YouTube. It features a man in a ski mask dancing in the lobby of a Buckhead Wells Fargo branch. [...]
Signing Day Was Big For Unheralded Prep Footballers, Too
February 12, 2013 | Posted by
All the attention and adulation for last week’s National Signing Day went to the country’s top players, like Robert Nkemdiche of Georgia, who chose Mississippi. But for Kris Smith of Flowery Branch High School near Atlanta, who has signed with Indiana University, the occasion was just as important and exciting, despite there being no ESPN [...]
Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ Video 1st to Surpass 1 Billion Views on YouTube
December 22, 2012 | Posted by
Psy’s “Gangnam Style” has just become the first video in the history of the Internet to reach and surpass one billion views. This morning (Dec. 21), Psy’s mega-hit reached this unprecedented milestone just 27 days after surpassing Justin Bieber’s “Baby” as the most watched video on YouTube. In the days after its breaking of the [...]
Alicia Keys to Give Fans Preview of New Album ‘Girl On Fire’
November 19, 2012 | Posted by
Alicia Keys will be giving her fans a preview of her new album “Girl on Fire” via a collaboration with YouTube and Google. Keys announced the event in a video on her personal YouTube channel. According to the video, viewers will “hear all the songs on the record [and] I’ll be able to share my creative process and also [...]
YouTube Will Likely Drop 60% of Channels It Backed Last Year
November 12, 2012 | Posted by
Just like programming in the traditional TV world, many YouTube-backed channels providing original programming won’t be back for another season. About a year after the video-sharing site launched an ambitious program to challenge the cable industry by investing $100 million into the development of dozens of new YouTube channels, many of those channels will not [...]
Eminem Releases Caps That Reveal He’s Working On An Album
October 29, 2012 | Posted by
Eminem has been keeping a low profile lately, but he hasn’t been resting on his laurels. Em recently released limited edition snapback Detroit Tigers baseball caps. The caps have the years each of his albums were released—including 2013 which means the “Lose Yourself” rapper will probably release some new music next year. Outside of the [...]
‘Django Unchained’ International Trailer – Video
October 23, 2012 | Posted by
The trailers just keep coming for Django Unchained, and this makes us all extremely happy. There’s plenty of new bits mixed in with the footage we’ve already seen here. The trailer is the latest international version, and comes courtesy of Sony Pictures Philippines’s YouTube channel. Source: Who Got The Role
