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Nielsen expands measurement for YouTube app on mobile to 26 new countries
Nielsen has expanded its advertising measurement to YouTube’s mobile app. Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings for…
T-Series hits 100 million subscribers on YouTube
Bollywood record label T-Series has become the first channel on YouTube to reach 100 million…
Oculus Quest will launch with YouTube
A native version of YouTube will be available on the Oculus Quest VR headset when…
YouTube confirms shift from pay to free for premium content
YouTube has confirmed that its premium content will be available for free as the business…
Amazon and Google end trade embargo with major new service pact
After a year-long unofficial moratorium on doing business with each other, online platforms Amazon and…
YouTube boosts TV offering with Discovery, Epix and OWN, hikes up price
YouTube has boosted its US TV offering by adding eight new channels from Discovery to…
YouTube channels with over a million subscribers doubled in 2018
YouTube channels with more than a million subscribers nearly doubled in the last year, while…
Ofcom: TV ‘of lessening importance’ as kids spend more time online
Children in the UK aged five to 15 now spend around 20 minutes more online,…
IHS Markit: Netflix and YouTube rank top among Brazilian viewers
Netflix and YouTube are consistently Brazilian internet users’ first choice of video services across all…
YouTube removes 7.8m videos for breaching site rules in Q3
YouTube removed 7.8 million videos that violated the platform’s guidelines in the three months from…
French broadcasters slam YouTube campaign against Article 13
French broadcasters and organisations representing rightsholders have banded together to condemn what they describe as…
YouTube urges content creators to speak out against Article 13
YouTube is encouraging content creators to speak out against the European Parliament’s copyright reform initiative,…
France Télévisions to cease putting shows on YouTube as Canal+ reveals new VOD plan
France Télévisions is going to stop distributing complete programmes on YouTube, following director-general Delphine Ernotte’s…
Hulu hires YouTube executive to drive content strategy
Hulu has hired former YouTube TV exec Heather Moosnick to drive its content acquisition strategy…
Facebook and YouTube say no to ‘one-size-fits-all’ ratings
Facebook and YouTube have expressed a desire to get involved in a Joint Industry Currency…
YouTube CEO slams European copyright reform plan
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has spoken out against the European Parliament’s copyright reform initiative, claiming…
eMarketer: 2018 to be milestone year for digital video ads in the US
US video ad spend is tipped to grow nearly 30% to US$27.82 billion in 2018,…
Ampere: YouTube ad income rate reaches level of broadcast TV
YouTube’s ad income for an hour of viewed content is now roughly equal to that…
Sandvine: Netflix leads as video accounts for 58% of web traffic
A total of 57.7% of all downstream internet traffic is video, with Netflix the number…
Ampere: Netflix leads the FAANGs with focus on comedy and sci-fi originals
Netflix continues to lead the FAANG companies in terms of original content, though the Facebook,…
YouTube launches first French premium series
YouTube has launched its first subscription-only French content from Studio Bagel and Golden Moustache. Canal+-owned…
YouTube: TV is our ‘fastest growing screen’
The television is the “fastest growing screen” for YouTube, while TV content is notching up…
YouTube Premium unveils German originals
YouTube Premium has commissioned its first German originals. The trio of formats form part of…
YouSee TV embraces BYOD trend with Apple TV and LG launches
Danish cable and telecom operator TDC is to make its YouSee TV service available via…
YouTube rolls out charity donation tools
YouTube has launched YouTube Giving, a new set of features designed to help creators and…
YouTube mulls putting premium unscripted shows in front of paywall
Luke Hyams, head of the newly formed originals unit at YouTube EMEA, discussed the shows…
ONS: 46% of UK adults use services like Netflix
The proportion of UK adults who watched on-demand video from commercial services like Netflix has…
YouTube: viewers watch 180m hours on TV every day
YouTube viewers now watch over 180 million hours of the video service on TV screens…
Parks: US viewers watch two hours of ‘alternative content’ per week
US broadband households watch an average of two hours of “alternative content” on a computer…
YouTube rolls out new features as it looks ‘beyond ads’
YouTube has introduced a host of new features, including channel memberships and merchandise options, as…