Quantifying comedy on YouTube: why the number of o’s in your LOL matter
February 9th, 2012 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research, Youtube
Posted by Sanketh Shetty, YouTube Slam Team, Google Research In a previous post, we talked about quantification of musical talent using machine learning on acoustic features for YouTube Music Slam. We wondered if we could do the same for funny vid…
December 11th, 2011 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog, Youtube
Cross-posted from the YouTube BlogWhen I was in school during the 90s, watching videos in the classroom was a highlight of any week. The teacher would roll in a television on a cart, pop in a VHS tape, and then we’d enjoy whatever scratchy science vi…
December 5th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords, Youtube
Each day, people watch more than 3 billion videos on YouTube – the equivalent of every American watching about 9 videos a day. U.S. online consumers now spend as much time online as they spend watching TV. With the consumer shift to online media consum…
November 16th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords, Youtube
There’s no debate that the world is going mobile. Mobile web searches have grown five times over the past two years. YouTube mobile now gets more than 400 million views a day, representing 13 percent of our total daily views.For advertisers, this ope…
November 2nd, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research, Youtube
Posted by Charles DuHadway, YouTube Slam Team, Google Research In an earlier post we talked about the technology behind Instant Mix for Music Beta by Google. Instant Mix uses machine hearing to characterize music attributes such as its timbre, mood and…
October 31st, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords, Uncategorized, Youtube
If you use TrueView video ads or interested in video advertising, we invite you to check out the Agency blog where we just posted some news and recent stats on this new suite of cost-per-view video ads. To learn more about the TrueView family of ad for…
October 25th, 2011 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog, Uncategorized, Youtube
Introduction: Taylor is a Google Student Ambassador at Boise State University. He is currently pursuing a double major in Communication and Computer Science, and loves exploring new study methods, one of which he shares with you here.Fall is in full sw…
YouTube’s Promoted Videos hits one billion video views
August 8th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords, Youtube
YouTube’s Promoted Videos recently passed the one billion mark in the number of video views delivered to advertisers. Promoted Videos allow you to promote your video against search results on YouTube, against related videos on YouTube, or across the …
June 28th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords, Youtube
Mobile, video and rich media advertising are changing the way that businesses capture user attention by bringing together the power of sight, sound, and motion to engage audiences like never before. For example, to build awareness for the new season of…
June 27th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords, Youtube
Google offers the world’s largest online video audience, based on users of Google.com search, our partnerships with top video publishers across the Google Display Network, and the reach of YouTube, the world’s largest video property. On YouTube alone, …
June 20th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research, Youtube
Posted by Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, and Irfan Essa, Research TeamEarlier this year, we announced the launch of new features on the YouTube Video Editor, including stabilization for shaky videos, with the ability to preview them in real-time. Th…
June 6th, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Youtube
Have you ever been in the process of creating a video and just needed that one perfect clip to make it pop? Maybe you were creating your own music video and needed an aerial video of Los Angeles at night to spice it up. Unless you had a helicopter, a p…
February 4th, 2011 | by Kevin Allocca | published in Youtube
Each weekday, we at YouTube Trends take a look at the most interesting videos and cultural phenomena on YouTube as they develop. We want take a moment to highlight some of what we’ve come across recently:We used the questions you asked of the Presiden…
Showtime’s “SHORT stories” recruits YouTube finest to make short films
February 4th, 2011 | by Mia | published in Youtube
For “SHORT stories,” Showtime contacted cutting-edge creators from across the Web and asked them to tell a tale in an innovative way. The series sports the work of some of YouTube’s top creators, so naturally we’re interested in learning a whol…
February 4th, 2011 | by Kate Rose | published in Youtube
You may notice the streets will be exceptionally quiet this superb ‘ol Sunday afternoon, with perhaps only a few pizza delivery vehicles passing by, as Americans gather en masse around the big screen to watch our annual football, food and advertising s…