YouTube sure has come a long way since launching in 2005 and being acquired by Google within a year for $1.65 billion. The company has today announced a collaborative project with a bunch of classical music institutions and artists in the context of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra program, and I think it’s awesome.

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Since YouTube heralded the era of user-uploaded videos, media corporations have been fighting a hopeless battle to regain control of their content, sending out endless waves of DMCA notices in a vain attempt to take down countless clips scattered across the web.

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Graspr, the instructional video syndication network run by an ex-Yahoo exec, has released an advanced video player with a featured called the “gCard” that carries the identity of a video creator wherever his or her video gets embedded across the net.

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YouTube on Thursday announced that it’s going to do its part to fight global poverty by launching “In My Name,” a global effort to raise awareness around eight time-bound, measurable goals that the United Nations set back in 2000 to combat global poverty. Known as Millennium Development Goals, the ideas outlined during that session were [...]

Credit “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane’s genius, or maybe just YouTube’s distribution clout: his channel, “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy,” has taken the No. 1 spot on YouTube, edging out Tania Derveaux and AtheneWins.

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As in search, in Web video Google is the one to beat.
Americans viewed some 11 billion videos during July, and they watched most of them on Google sites, according to the latest metrics from comScore. Of the more than 11.4 billion videos viewed in the month, nearly 44 percent were seen on Google (GOOG) properties.

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After Hurricane Gustav blew through and Americans started searching for Sarah Palin, the Google and YouTube teams got down to business at the Republican Convention.

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New York-based FullTurn Media, maker of racy sex-ed videos under the illumistream brand, was once one of YouTube’s (GOOG) most-watched producers. Now it’s struggling to get a tenth of its traffic on the site.
Earlier this summer, the company was flying high — averaging a million views a day.

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Online video ad network LiveRail has just released a ‘State Of The Industry Report’ for Q3 2008. It reports that video ad spending currently only represents 2.36% of all online advertising, but that it is expected to grow over 55% next year. Right now only 20.95% of internet video streams are being monetized. LiveRail also [...]