We want TV-sized audiences for our original programming, and we’re prepared to promote big like TV. That was the essential message from top Google executives at the company’s star-studded “NewFront” presentation to advertisers at New York’s Beacon Theatre Wednesday night, as they unveiled yet more original programming channels for their YouTube platform, as well as [...]

iJustine Justine Ezarick is all over the place. With more than 1,700 online videos and five YouTube channels she does everything from video blogging about her life to giving product reviews and video game commentary… Tweet This Post

When Google launched its Google+ social network, the company made it clear that it wasn’t just another Buzz-style experiment — director of product Bradley Horowitz said Google+ would become “part of everything” the company did… Tweet This Post

It was only about 14 months ago that Google made headlines for targeting Demand Media with algorithmic pesticides, classifying the Santa Monica, Calif.-based company’s freelancer-produced content as farmed material created specifically to game its search engines… Tweet This Post

With initiatives like TV Everywhere and broadband usage caps, is the cable industry biting the hands of the streaming video companies that are driving its most vibrant prospect for growth? Now that Time Warner Cable, AT&T and Verizon have kicked off  the latest round of quarterly earnings reports by multi-channel operators late last month — [...]

“Light painting” is a photographic technique that uses a light source and long exposure to create the effect of “painting” with light. As with other forms of animation, it can be used very creatively as it’s not limited by “reality… Tweet This Post

It only makes sense that the Google TV initiative to increase personalization would extend to videos served up from its YouTube site, and now the official app has been updated to do just that. The new version brings recommendations meant to pull gems you might like out of the ever growing pile of content available, [...]

YouTube personalities Rhett and Link are known for their outstanding commercials, and their most recent endeavor is no exception — and hey, getting kids to roller skate instead of taking meth doesn’t hurt either… Tweet This Post

Last month, TED announced its new education initiative — fittingly named TED-Ed — with a YouTube channel showcasing teachers’ lessons presented as animated videos. Today, the program moved forward, as TED opened up a beta version of a website meant to complement those lessons… Tweet This Post

It’s a play straight out of a video game, movie or dream: A college football running back catches a pass out of the backfield, sizes up an onrushing defender, front-flips over his head, then continues chugging on toward the endzone… Tweet This Post

Name a chef who wears green eyeshadow, sequined purple sweaters and leather pants with a zip-out crotch. Chances are, you’re still searching. That is, unless you’ve tuned in with millions of other viewers to watch Cooking Channel’s Bitchin’ Kitchen, where celebrity chef Nadia G totters around on heels higher than some ears of corn… Tweet [...]

Draw Something, the Pictionary-like game for iOS and Android whose parent company was recently aquired by Zynga, is the addiction that keeps on giving. Everyone from talentless hacks to professional artists can play, which sometimes leads to frustration… Tweet This Post