by Admin on June 18, 2009
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Step 1 – Write Your Post in Wordpress
To add a Youtube video to your blog post, write a new post in your Wordpress Admin area. Be sure to leave a blank line where you want the YouTube video to appear in the final, published post on your blog.
Step 2 – Switch to the HTML Editor View
After you’re done entering the text for your post, select the “HTML” tab to switch to the HTML Editor view in Wordpress.
Step 3 – Find the YouTube Video that You Want to Embed in Your Wordpress Post
Find a Youtube video that you want to embed in the post. Copy the code from the “Embed” box.
Notice that when you click in the Embed text box, the window may expand showing several options you can pick and choose from to customize the video’s appearance within your blog post. For example, you can choose to show related videos, include a border, and change the size. It’s up to you if you want to modify these settings or not. If you do change these selections, the code in the Embed text box will automatically update. Therefore, copy the Embed code after you make any customization changes.
Step 4 – Paste the Embed Code from YouTube into Your Wordpress Post
Return to the window where you have your Wordpress post open, and click within the HTML editor text box in order to place your cursor at the beginning of the first line where you want the YouTube video to appear within your final, published post. Paste the code here, and then select the “Publish” button on the right side of your screen to publish your post.
It’s important to paste the Embed code just before you hit the Publish button. If you do anything else to your post after pasting the Embed code, the YouTube video may not appear correctly in your final, published post. If that happens, you’ll have to return to the HTML editor, delete the code you pasted, re-paste it and republish your post.
Step 5 – View your post
Visit your blog to view your live post and ensure it published correctly. If not, return to Step 3 and repeat the copying and pasting of the Embed code and republish your post.
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by Admin on April 17, 2009
Google Inc.’s YouTube said Thursday it is vastly expanding its library of full-length movies and TV shows it offers online, while also launching a new advertising service and adding about a dozen new content partners.
The long-form videos will be housed on a unique page at http://www.youtube.com/shows and get a “Shows” tab on the main YouTube site.
The offering, which went live late Thursday, marks a further departure from the fuzzy homemade clips that made the Web site popular and is the latest move in YouTube’s attempt to boost sales and profits. Last week, YouTube announced it was teaming up with Universal Music Group to create an online music video venture.
“It’s a first step in a long commitment,” said Shiva Rajaraman, a YouTube senior product manager, in a conference call with reporters.
The company hopes to add to its movie and show content over time. The titles available at launch are mostly older fare that are already available elsewhere on the Web. It will offer for free hundreds of TV show titles including “Beverly Hillbillies” and “Married With Children,” and hundreds of movies, including “Casino Royale” and “Cliffhanger.”
The service expands on YouTube’s existing partnership with several studios, whose parents include Sony Corp., Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., CBS Corp., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and Liberty Media Corp.
On Thursday it also announced new partnerships with 13 smaller companies such as Discovery Communications Inc., National Geographic and SnagFilms LLC.
Advertising revenue will be shared with the content providers.
The news came on the same day Mountain View-based Google said it earned $1.42 billion, or $4.49 per share, in the first quarter, up 9 percent from a year ago.
Google bought YouTube for $1.76 billion in late 2006 but it hasn’t emerged as a major marketing vehicle and the company does not disclose its revenue figures. Analysts have estimated its revenue in 2008 at around $200 million.
On Thursday, YouTube spokesman Chris Dale simply said a recent analyst estimate that said the site lost $500 million a year was “factually incorrect” and said its performance was better.
As a way to bolster its ad revenue, YouTube also announced it is launching Google TV Ads Online, which will help advertisers target viewers of online content with video ads.
Single video ads are planned to be inserted in scheduled breaks in shows and movies, Rajaraman said. Sometimes the ads will be sold by Google and sometimes by the content providers.
Certain content providers also provide their own video players, such as Sony’s Crackle.com player, which will be embedded in the YouTube site.
Crackle.com has 60 movies on its site, but will be offering only 15 at time through the partnership. For example, “Groundhog Day,” initially will not be shared, as Sony managers intend to use YouTube’s large audience to help drive traffic to Crackle.com.
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by Admin on April 9, 2009
Universal Music Group (UMG) and YouTube announced plans on Thursday to launch a music video website featuring artists from the world’s largest music company.
Universal, a subsidiary of France’s Vivendi, and Google, which owns YouTube, said the website, to be called VEVO, would be launched later this year.
Universal and YouTube also said they had renewed an agreement that allows users of YouTube to use music by Universal artists in user-generated videos on the popular video-sharing website. Details of the agreement were not disclosed.
The two companies said in a statement that they will share advertising revenue on YouTube and VEVO.com, which they described as a “premium online music video hub built for consumers, advertisers and content owners.”
“This content will be exclusively available through VEVO.com and a new VEVO channel through a special VEVO branded embedded player,” they said.
“VEVO will bring the most compelling premium music video content and services to the world’s single largest online video audience,” said Universal chief executive Doug Morris.
“We believe that at launch, VEVO will already have more traffic than any other music video site in the United States and in the world.”
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said the Internet search giant, which will provide the technology for VEVO.com, is “thrilled to be working with UMG in what will surely be an exciting new service for consumers, advertisers, content creators and the music industry at large.”
Music videos are among the most popular content on YouTube, which Google bought for 1.65 billion dollars in October 2006, and Universal’s channel is already the most-watched on the site with more than 3.5 billion views.
Mountain View, California-based Google has been striving for ways to make money on YouTube while avoiding alienating notoriously transient Web users and assuring film and music studios that video copyrights are being respected.
Warner Music Group pulled its videos from YouTube in December after the companies failed to reached agreement on fees but another major label, Sony Music Entertainment, inked a new deal with YouTube this year.
YouTube began blocking certain copyrighted music videos in Britain and Germany earlier this year while new licensing deals are negotiated.
As album sales decline and online piracy bites into their profits, major record labels have been forging new arrangements such as deals with MySpace, Apple’s iTunes and YouTube to generate new revenue streams.
The number of US Internet users watching videos at YouTube hit a new monthly high in January, topping 100 million as it dominated the online video arena, according to comScore.
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by Admin on March 10, 2009
Google Inc. said Monday it will block U.K. users from watching music videos on its popular video-sharing site YouTube after negotiations with Britain’s music royalty-collecting body broke down.
Google said it would begin blocking British users starting Monday night. The Internet titan said it knew the move would cause “significant disappointment.”
But it said its hand was forced by PRS for Music, which it said is asking for royalties that would cause Google to lose money every time a video was played on YouTube.
“Our previous license from PRS for Music has expired, and we’ve been unable so far to come to an agreement to renew it on terms that are economically sustainable for us,” Google said in a statement. Until a solution is found, it added, “we will be blocking premium music videos in the UK that have been supplied or claimed by record labels.”
PRS for Music, which collects money on behalf of writers and publishers worldwide, said it was outraged by Google’s move.
“Google has told us they are taking this step because they wish to pay significantly less than at present to the writers of the music on which their service relies, despite the massive increase in YouTube viewing,” the group said in a statement.
Neither group revealed how much money is at stake in their negotiations.
YouTube has become an increasingly popular destination for record labels squeezed by declining sales for compact discs. The Web site has deals with three of the four major record labels but some rights-holders have balked at their cut of the advertising revenue.
In December, Warner Music pulled all of its music from YouTube, saying the payments it received did not fairly compensate the label or its artists and songwriters.
It was not clear how long the music videos would stay blocked. Both PRS for Music and Google said they hoped their dispute could be resolved quickly.
The video Leona Lewis’s “Bleeding Love,” licensed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment U.K. Ltd., which has garnered more than 83 million hits, was still visible from the U.K. late Monday.
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by Admin on November 25, 2008
For all YouTube Lovers,
YouTube announced Monday that it has expanded the viewable width of all videos appearing on the site, creating an image that viewers will likely associate more with a movie theater screen or high-definition television.
The video-sharing site announced the move in a blog posting Monday evening:
We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. This new, wider player is in a widescreen aspect ratio which we hope will provide you with a cleaner, more powerful viewing experience.
The expanded viewing width will please YouTube users who are increasingly filming and uploading more videos to the site in the 16:9 aspect ratio. However, users worried that their 4:3 videos will be stretched to look like the TBS version of HD should fear not. Those videos will be centered with vertical black bars flanking the image.
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Google Disables Uploads, Comments on YouTube Korea
by Admin on April 13, 2009
Google has disabled user uploads and comments on the Korean version of its YouTube video portal in reaction to a new law that requires the real name of a contributor be listed along each contribution they make.
The rules, part of a Cyber Defamation Law, came into effect on April 1 for all sites with over 100,000 unique visitors per day. It requires that users provide their real name and national ID card number.
In response to the requirements Google has stopped users from uploading via its Korean portal rather than start a new registration system.
“We have a bias in favor of freedom of expression and are committed to openness,” said Lucinda Barlow, a spokeswoman for YouTube in Asia. “It’s very important that if users want to be anonymous that they have that chance.”
But while the move obeys the letter of the law it skirts around the spirit of it by allowing users based in South Korea to continue uploading and commenting on YouTube by switching their preference setting to a country other than Korea.
YouTube noted this work-around on its Korean Web site and any videos and comments contributed this way will still be seen by Internet users in the country.
The decision was taken after close consultation and debate between Google Korea and its headquarters, Barlow said.
The new law was rushed into force after the suicide of a popular actress in October focused attention on the problem of online bullying in the highly-connected country.
Choi Jin Sil was apparently driven to suicide after a series of online rumors had her pressuring a fellow actor to repay a loan she had made to him. The actor, Ahn Jae Hwan, had killed himself a month earlier.
The suicide was the latest in a string of so-called cyber-bullying incidents in the country and helped generate support for the stricter law.
The first high-profile case occurred in 2005 and involved a woman who quickly became known as “dog poop girl.” After her dog defecated on the Seoul subway and she failed to clean it up, a fellow traveller posted a picture of her online with an account of the incident. The story spread fast and within days a campaign had identified her, where she lived, and the university she attended. In the end, she reportedly dropped out of school and fled her home because of the controversy.
Already many major Korean portals and Web sites require users to provide their national ID card number when registering accounts but Google, which has a much smaller profile in South Korea than it enjoys in the west, does not ask for this information so the law would have also required it to build a new verification system.
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