Why is video significant to Internet marketing? What contributed to the rise and incredible success of YouTube? Why was Google willing to pay $1.65 billion in stock for the acquisition of YouTube. The answer to all of the above is that video is a great communicator. The objectives of advertising include message communication, information transmission [...]

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Google Inc. announced on Monday that Google Maps will now include the ability to add a YouTube video to a Google Maps listing. This brings an exciting new dimension to Google Maps allowing users a greater degree of interactivity with the advertisers organisation, its products and services. Currently anyone can list their business on Google [...]

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It was reported yesterday in Gulfnews that five Indonesian ISPs have blocked, on government’s request, YouTube and MySpace because of an anti-Islam film Fitna, created by Dutch filmmaker Geert Wilders. The official reason for the ban is that the movie ‘could disturb relations between faiths.‘ The movie has caused controversy before after being rejected by [...]

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When designing a podcast or vidcast site there are a number of things which one needs to take into consideration so that the project is deemed a success. A podcast site is a website which offers to visitors the opportunity to search for and view video clips all at the click of a button. Designing [...]

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Video sharing site YouTube became unavailable in China yesterday as authorities cracked down on protests in neighbouring Tibet. Only a few days after the US State Department took China off the annual Human Rights Report list of the worst violators, which happened as a hundred Tibetan monks were being placed under arrest by Chinese authorities, [...]

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YouTube has added a beta version of its homepage that you can personalize and use as a dashboard of your activity, subscriptions and friends. You get a list of recommended videos based on your recent activity, the latest 12 videos from 3 of your subscribed channels, list of videos uploaded, favoured and rated by your [...]

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On Friday, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ordered 70 Internet service providers to block access to YouTube.com because of anti-Islamic movies on the video-sharing site, which is owned by Google. With this blocking Pakistan joins Brazil, Iran, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Turkey and United Arab Emirates as countries that have blocked the website. Many [...]

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