Yahoo Helps Music Lovers Find Videos More Easily
Nov 5, 2009 at 12:00pm ET by Matt McGee
Yahoo has added a set of refinements to its video search engine that will help music lovers find videos more quickly.
A video search for [U2] shows the new refinements in action: On the left side of the screen are new options to drill down to see U2 videos related to specific albums or specific songs.
You can click any album or song to see the video results that match the refinement without losing the context of your original search. It looks and works similar to the travel photo tours refinement that Yahoo added to image search earlier this year.
One more note: on the image abov [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: Video
Yahoo Upgrades Mobile Homepage
Oct 8, 2009 at 9:21am ET by Greg Sterling
Yesterday at the CTIA mobile conference, Yahoo Mobile SVP David Ko announced a range of upgrades to its mobile homepage. The new homepage was launched this past April. According to the statement that Yahoo put out yesterday, the homepage has been optimized for 1,900 devices. Video is also a bigger part of the experience now on smartphones.
Changes and upgrades for smartphones include the following:
Dynamically updated content with pagination – without using additional screen real estate or refreshing, users are able to access a wealth of content. For example, the ‘Tod [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: Mobile & Go, Yahoo: Video
Yahoo Serves 5 Million Streams Of Michael Jackson Memorial, Most In Yahoo History
Jul 7, 2009 at 8:22pm ET by Matt McGee
Our love affair with celebrity continues, as evidenced by news today from Yahoo that it served about five million streams of the Michael Jackson Memorial ceremony. That makes it the most streamed event in Yahoo's history, surpassing the inauguration of President Obama in January, when Yahoo served 1.8 million streams.
While watching the event online, many viewers were also searching for information about the people involved. People not watching a live stream were looking for videos of what they missed. Yahoo says it saw spikes in searches for
Elvis Presley's funeral
the casket compan [...]
Filed in: Facebook, Google: Web Search, Stats: Search Behavior, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Video
Google Still Owns Online Video, But Hulu Is Rising
Apr 28, 2009 at 5:40pm ET by Matt McGee
Google remains the dominant player in the online video space, but Hulu is on the rise. It's now the number three video property according to the latest comScore numbers out today.
According to comScore, Hulu has passed Yahoo properties and moved into the third spot with 2.6% of all videos viewed during March. Yahoo dropped to fourth with 2.3 million videos watched on its sites. Google properties (primarily YouTube) are still miles ahead of the competition with almost 41% of all videos viewed during the month.
ComScore estimates that almost 150 million Internet users watched an averag [...]
Filed in: Google: YouTube & Video, Search Engines: Video Search Engines, Stats: comScore, Yahoo: Video
Yahoo Shutting Down Jumpcut Video Service
Apr 16, 2009 at 1:53pm ET by Matt McGee
After disabling new uploads in December, Yahoo will formally kill off Jumpcut in June.
More than just a video upload-and-watch site, Jumpcut allowed users to share videos and photos, creating essentially a library of "stock" clips and images that any user could include in his/her own videos. It also offered online video creation and editing tools. Jumpcut was a somewhat novel concept that apparently didn't catch on enough -- at least not enough to survive CEO Carol Bartz's promise to reorganize and refocus the company.
TechCrunch has posted the email sent out to Jumpcut users with news o [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Video
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