yahoo video - ReadWriteWeb http://www.readwriteweb.com/feeds/tag/yahoo video en Copyright 2009 Richard MacManus readwriteweb@gmail.com Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:36:29 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Yahoo Video Search Gets Musical yahoo logo.jpgYahoo just announced that it has upgraded its video search product with new features that make it easier to discover music videos. Yahoo Video Search now recognizes and shows the most popular albums and songs whenever a user searches for an artist or band. A sidebar on Yahoo Video Search now displays an artist's most popular albums and songs. The album view then allows users to drill down even deeper and see videos for all the songs on this album.

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Yahoo Video Search lets users filter searches by the length of the videos. Search queries can also be restricted to official videos from a band or artist. Just like it does with non-music related searches, Yahoo also features recently shared videos from Twitter at the top of the search results.

Yahoo Video displays videos from services like YouTube, DailyMotion or MetaCafe right on the search results page. For the vast majority of video services like Artist Direct, however, users have to leave the site to see these videos. In our tests, this new feature mostly worked as advertised, though it sometimes showed songs that weren't part of the album we had selected.

Reaction to Google Music Search?

It is worth noting that while Google launched its new Google Music Search service last month, Yahoo also offers a seamless integration with Rhapsody on its site.

]]>Discuss]]> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoos_video_search_music.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoos_video_search_music.php News Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:36:23 -0800 Frederic Lardinois Online Video Market Shifted Dramatically in December New numbers are out from Nielsen today on marketshare among the big online video sites. Despite an expected December downturn in total numbers, there were some unexpected changes in the market last month.

The highlights? YouTube viewership grew 9% according to Nielsen, Metacafe grew 27% and Yahoo! Video viewership fell by an amazing 60%.

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TVWeek reports that those percentages represent December estimates by Nielsen of 68.6 million unique visitors for YouTube, 6 million uniques for Yahoo! Video, 10.5 million uniques for MSN Video and 5.6 million for Metacafe.

My takeaways from these numbers? There's plenty of room for change in this market, as expected the TV writers' strike may be increasing online numbers, look out for Metacafe and don't assume that YouTube's growth will slow.

If you're interested in the online video market, you should make sure you're subscribed to the feed for NewTeeVee, the GigaOm network's video news blog.

]]>Discuss]]> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/online_video_market_shifted.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/online_video_market_shifted.php Video Services Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:24:19 -0800 Marshall Kirkpatrick