If you've been a fan of Youtube show, FPS Russia for a while now, you will already be aware that the reason no videos have been posted recently is because one of the show's producers, Keith Ratliff, was found dead on the 3rd January with a single bullet wound in …
Read More »Pakistan temporarily ended Youtube blockade
Since September 2012, Pakistan has had a block in place, preventing its citizens from accessing Youtube. However on 29th December, the country's higher ups lifted it temporarily in an effort to set up an in-house filter that would simply prevent people from seeing content it deemed inappropriate or blasphemous. Unfortunately, …
Read More »Breaking The Taboo uses Youtube as political launch platform
For a site that began with a man talking about his trip to the Zoo, Youtube has evolved into something much bigger in the past half a decade – in terms of viewer numbers and in what it's used for. We've seen everything from drugged up kids after the dentist, …
Read More »Vevo débuts in EU
Vevo, the music video website and promoter of hideously censored Youtube tracks, is now set to launch across mainland Europe, beginning in France, Spain and Italy first. The service that has been available in the UK for just over a year now, is opening up country specific versions of its …
Read More »Youtube adds more original programming channels
Google has added 60 new channels to Youtube, expanding its push of original programming within the UK, German and French markets. The idea of Youtube's channels is to make the site more TV like, thereby making adverts and product placement seem more natural on the site – which is traditionally …
Read More »Youtube restore ‘copyright breaking’ Obama music videos
Four Youtube videos were removed earlier this week, apparently due to copyright claims for the music involved. They featured US president Obama singing the opening line of Al Green's ‘Lets Stay Together'. One of the videos was used by the Mitt Romney Campaign to show the president as ‘too friendly …
Read More »YouTube introduces auto face blurring
YouTube has announced new privacy pro feature that allows video uploaders to blur the faces of everyone in a video with just a simple click. According to the blog post detailing the feature, the idea is to allow anonymity for those that need or deserve it. Examples given include children …
Read More »YouTube loses landmark case in Germany
It does not take a genius to know that if you mule drugs within your body and get caught, then you can expect a stiff prison sentence. So far, most of the data carriers around the world have managed to avoid being done by authorities – even when they are …
Read More »Avoid being hit by a train and other weekend fun
While the majority of YouTube is full of stuff that wasn't worth the upload bandwidth that carried it to the great server farm in the sky, other clips put a smile on your face. Here's a handful of short vids to give you a soft Saturday smile. One might even …
Read More »YouTube purchase new networks to help video editors
YouTube have purchases Next New Networks to assist contributors in editing and creating video content for publication. Next New Networks is a new laboratory idea to help Youtube users have more creative freedom and the team will be working with a wide variety of content partners and emerging talent to …
Read More »Youtube mobile views triple – causing issues for providers
Google, owner of YouTube has announced statistics which show that mobile viewers tripled by headcount in 2010. Today, they are receiving over 200 million video views a day from mobile devices, with the highest percentage from smartphones. This is a healthy indication of just how many people are using smartphone …
Read More »Youtube Employs Trained Monkeys
KitGuru is an old fart who likes nothing better than watching old Metallica videos while munching breakfast and preparing for a day under the radar of the world's leading technology companies. Who knew ? Imagine our surprise this morning when tried to go from Enter Sandman at the Freddie Mercury …
Read More »YouTube: 2 billion downloads daily
YouTube made a public announcement stating that they get over two billion hits each day which works out at over twice as many people who watch all three of the biggest US TV networks combined. “I see this great growth opportunity in the online video market and we are positioning …
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