Brandweek reports that TVGuide is taking on YouTube.

NEW YORK — TV Guide is trying to muscle in on YouTube’s considerable turf.
The publication famous for its television-centric editorial and show listings launches at TVGuide.com today its Online Video Guide, a search service that will attempt to filter out the junk and leave users with the best [...]

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Check out the video below, directed by Steve Rosenbaum, my co-host of the Video Ninjas radio show. Listen to us talk about this video, and Steve’s 9/11 filming experiences, at 4pm live on Sept. 11th on Webmaster Radio.fm.

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It finally has a name. Techcrunch is reporting that “ClownCo”, the long awaited YouTube competitor is going to be called… wait for it…
Hulu.com.
Will they REALLY be able to tackle Gootube? Or is it too late?
I know one thing, there’s still a HUGE place for business related content that YouTube still has yet to fill.

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The good news for advertisers is that people are “ok” with ads in videos.

The good news for video-sharing platforms is that consumers are willing to accept advertising as a means to gain free, high-quality online video content. YouTube is inserting animated flash ads into select videos at a cost of $20 for every thousand impressions. [...]

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Scenario. You upload a video to YouTube. A day later you realize you made a typo in that video and you want to replace the current video with the new one.

Right now you can’t do it. You have to remove the video you had uploaded and upload the new one. Fine, big deal, you lose [...]

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Mashable is reporting that YouTube is now allowing users who upload video to opt-out of having ads on their videos. Good idea, but we truly believe that this is still a good move and more and more people will start opting in once they see the bucks they generate. More at Yahoo! news.
In an attempt [...]

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Here’s 5 suggestions. We think it’s a more elegant solution, at the moment, than YouTube. However, you cannot replace the eyeballs that YouTube brings, can you?
Suggestion #1 - Shorter links
The Viddler staff have this great viral program where they hand out business cards with the links to videos that are shot live (i.e. at a [...]

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Shawn Collins of AffiliateTip catches the YouTube layered ads in action on video.

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Search Engine Land has the scoop. I was wondering exactly how YouTube was going to do this, and frankly, I’m not blown away. This to me seems obtrusive to my viewing experience. I suppose I’ll have have to wait and see it live in action.
This is HUGE, HUGE news for video publishers.
People have been [...]

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