Of Video Online And YouTube Restricting Access
The number of videos viewed on YouTube – 10.3 billion – in September 2009 exceeded the number of core Google searches by a full billion.
Every minute about 20 hours of video is uploaded on YouTube.
More than 168 million US internet surfers watched nearly 26 billion videos online in September – an average of 154 videos per viewer. The number of people watching video online is up year-over-year by 46 percent says this study.
The use of video on mobile devices is up 70 percent to 15 million Americans watching 3 hours and 15 minutes of mobile video each.
No doubt, video is here to stay, and Google would be spending enough and more just on bandwidth to keep YouTube up and available. Now, in a move towards monetizing YouTube, Google has changed its terms of service to restrict the use of its native video API on devices. Now, any device that connects to a TV must have a license from YouTube to get fully native video support.
I wonder what this means for the recent news item about Logic Eastern, a Noida-based manufacturer of cable infrastructure, which has developed special set-top boxes which come with an in-built patented hardware that enables connections to Gmail, Facebook and YouTube. The company has made possible two-way flow of data, that is, from websites to cable operators to consumers and return by using the existing cellphone technology.
It has installed large servers which download Gmail, YouTube and Facebook pages on behalf of its subscribers and pushes them on to their television screens.
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