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Friday, March 28, 2008

YouTube Introduces Insight

Written by Scott Van Achte and published at 1:40 PM

Have you ever wondered exactly when and where viewers watch your YouTube videos? YouTube Insight, a new tool has been created by Google's engineering team in Zurich, to allow users to dive deeper into the statistics behind their posted videos.

Guardian.co.uk reported on the new addition Thursday morning.

"We know a lot of data about video consumption and we want to give some of that back," Jacobi said. "A lot of bands use the site, and YouTube Insight is a very easy way to work out where in the world your fans are. That's very important for planning, marketing and touring, and helps tailor their product."

Users will now be able to see statistics such as how often their videos are viewed in different geographic regions, overall popularity against related videos, the lifecycle of videos, and what happens to your videos as popularity peaks. Soon they will also be adding additional features including what time of day your videos get the most views, and how viewers discovered them in the first place.

To view statistical information about your Videos, follow these simple steps:

Log into your YouTube account

Click "account" at the top right

Near the top left, hover over "My Account" and select "Videos, Favorites, & Playlists"

Click the "About this Video" button to the right of the video you are interested in.

More information can be found in the YouTube blog.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Google, Youtube, Blocked by China

Written by Scott Van Achte and published at 2:50 PM

In order to help curb the possibility of rioting, the Chinese government has blocked all access to both YouTube and Google News to prevent the viewing of news reports and video footage documenting riots and protests in Tibet. Other web properties blocked include giants Yahoo, CNN, and the BBC.

Cnet reported on the blockage over the weekend and many others such as the New York Times have also picked up the story.

Google has before been blocked by the Chinese government. Back in 2002 searches through the internet giant were blocked to the Chinese population leading into a Communist Party congress in November of that year.

In 2002 the Chinese government reported that an estimated 45.8 million Chinese were online. In July of 2007 this number had increased to approximately 137 million. Since then the total of those online has continued to skyrocket. According to Nielsen/NetRatings, and reported at the Register, the communist country, exceeded that of the US and reached an estimated 216 million online users by the end of 2007.

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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Today's Social Media Linkforth

Written by Andrew Clough and published at 12:48 PM

When building a new site you want to create a powerful and respected reputation on the web. A company or individual can do this by having a great homepage (lots of great content and a blog), finding the appropriate communities to share their expertise, creating publicity, and building their brands image (expanding community).

A structured social media campaign can provide lots of traffic to your site. Social media can be indexed in organic listings and provide links to your site. The important point brought out in this article is to not just make a few attempts at social media but to keep on trying. A business should be encouraged to consistently provide new content to social sites because its a great way for their content to be promoted.

Social media ideally helps to find the best (current, peer reviewed) information available on the web. To be seen as "highly important information" people must be able to find it, want to link to it, and it should be so good that people want to share it with people who have similar interests. The best way to do this is to provide informed, engaging, and unique content.

More and more people who grew up with the web are using it as a trusted space to find unbiased news. Surveys have shown that people are becoming frustrated with traditional news sources because they lack quality and are out of touch with today's generation.

Youtube will be allowing live video this year. That means that people can broadcast themselves and what they are up to 24/7 and promote it to an already large user base. It should make for some interesting content and provide an exciting new venue for people to interact.

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Sunday, February 24, 2008

YouTube Offline

Written by Ross Dunn and published at 12:51 PM

It appears that YouTube is having some serious problems because it has been unreachable for over an hour now. I checked with a fellow Twitterer and there is no question this is a widespread outtage.

What I find the most odd... Is there isn't even a error page provided by Google which is highly irregular and does not bode well.

I hope you are all having a great weekend. Tomorrow I am off to Santa Clara for SMX West... I hope to see some of you there. If you want to hookup drop me a note: Ross at StepForth and that dot com thing.

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