YouTube Accounts for 22% of Mobile Data Usage [REPORT]

Mobile data use grew by 77% for the first half of the year and YouTube accounts for 22% of that, according to a new report. Allot Communications’s MobileTrends Report, released Tuesday, found that video streaming grew 93% for that period and is the largest single application taking up bandwidth. Some 39% of mobile bandwidth is [...]

Keenan Cahill Dominates YouTube Again With the Cast of Glee [VIRAL VIDEO]

You’ve got to envy Keenan Cahill, the lip-”synching” YouTube sensation who’s performed with huge names such as 50 Cent and Katy Perry — and here with Glee stars Harry Shum Jr., Dianna Agron, Darren Criss and Jenna Ushkowitz — in dozens of tremendously popular YouTube video hits. It doesn’t seem to matter that Keenan, who [...]

Royal Wedding Has More YouTube Views Than Britain Has People

YouTube’s livestream of the Royal Wedding was viewed more than 72 million times last Friday, the company has revealed. That’s a higher number than the number of people living in the UK. In fact, if royal wedding web viewers were to form a nation (perhaps one in which everyone wears fancy hats), it would be [...]

YouTube To Go Beyond Cat Videos By Training a New Class of Vloggers

YouTube has just announced which members will be inducted into YouTube NextUp and the YouTube Creator Institute, efforts by the video-sharing site to add even more polish to its content. After a six-week search, YouTube has chosen 45 content creators to train up to be even more successful video bloggers, a move that will help [...]

Google Offers Easier Way to Transfer Video From Google Video to YouTube

Google’s listening. After notifying the world last week that Google Video was shutting down with no videos viewable after April 29, and giving users until May 13 to download them before they would be removed, Google’s backed away from that. Numerous voices spoke out, asking why Google couldn’t create a quick way to transfer videos [...]