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Following its recent deals for full-length content with Sony Pictures, CBS, MGM, Lionsgate, Starz and the BBC, YouTube has made new deals that will add longer content to the popular video sharing site.
The agreements will bring the 90-minute environmental film Home to the site in English, French, German and Spanish and [...]

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According to the official YouTube blog, the site has expanded their high definition player, making it official after weeks of testing new HD capabilities.
Says the blog:
“Starting today, if you click the “watch in HD” option below any HD-enabled video, the video will automatically play in widescreen – so you can find out [...]

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So says a report from News.com, and it seems a no brainer on the face of it: YouTube, owned by Google (NSDQ: GOOG), has tried to get full length movies and TV shows from major networks and studios for a while now, but has failed to make major headway due to queasiness [...]

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YouTube has turned down the McCain campaign’s request to personally evaluate the presidential candidates’ clips before removing them for alleged copyright infringement.
In a letter dated Oct. 14, YouTube Chief Counsel Zahavah Levine said the site removes clips once it receives takedown notices because the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires it to do [...]

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YouTube has moved to put full-length television shows on its site for the first time. Historically, YouTube has hosted a bewildering and attractive variety of video clips, the vast majority of which have been under ten minutes in length. YouTube has announced that it had finalized a deal with CBS to offer [...]

The majority of people who buy insurance do online research first — but that doesn’t mean they only want to read.
Interactive tools engage people with your website, and create a more positive user experience. Marketing folks like to call a website that encourages people to spend more time on it “sticky.”
Some super-sticky websites that do [...]

Google’s YouTube has struck a deal with online distributor Digital Music Group to carry TV classics like “Gumby,” “My Favorite Martian,” and “I Spy” free of charge for viewers.
“Gumby” has some big shoes to fill following Viacom’s insistence last week that YouTube take down over 100,000 Viacom-owned videos, including any trace of Jon Stewart and [...]

A recent Harris Poll of 2,309 U.S. adults, of whom 363 are frequent YouTube viewers, conducted online by Harris Interactive between December 12 and 18, 2006, found that almost one in three of these frequent YouTube users say they are watching less TV as a result of the time they spend there. However, 73 percent [...]

According to the New York Times, media companies are frustrated with Google’s YouTube. NBC Universal, for example, says it sends out more than 1,000 requests per month to have copyrighted content taken down. At this point, the media giant has three full-time staff members troll the site each day looking for studio-owned material. Execs estimate [...]