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YouTube's huge lead in market share over other online video sites continues to get bigger, even as the over all video viewing market continues a decline. According to traffic analysts

Well turns out the speculation, which was first reported on Techcrunch on Friday, was true. Google has acquired YouTube for $1.65 Billion in stock. Out of all the reports, the

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_to_Email_Your_Grandparents_About_New_Videos_Online'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The Official Google Blog just announced that Google Alerts will now be available for video search queries. When new results

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/New_Video_Player_for_Yahoo_com'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; This is Online Video Week at Read/WriteWeb and the folks at Yahoo pinged us about a new inline video player

July turned out to be the biggest month for watching Internet video yet. According to comScore, Internet users in the US watched 21.4 billion videos in July, up 88% from

In Read/WriteWeb's interview with Matt Cutts of Google today, on the topic of next-generation search, the very last question I asked him was how Google is going about indexing video.

According to a new report by Nielsen Online (pdf), most online videos in the U.S. are watched at work between 9am and 5pm during the work week. 65% of all

Online video sites are cropping up all over the web. Yet the majority seem to be Youtube copycats in one way or another. Innovation is low and the space is

Vimeo, one of the classiest players in the online video world, is now offering High Definition transcoding for user uploaded video. At 4 times the industry standard bitrate, the new

"Pre-roll ads are going the way of popups and other intrusive ads," predicted Fred Wilson a little over a month ago. "They won't be around in a couple years. And