YouTube to start making feature films with its biggest stars

YouTube is continuing to put money behind its community of video makers, and today it's announcing five new partnerships including one to begin making feature films this year.

Facebook video is on course to steal YouTube’s video sharing crown

Facebook video is big and it’s getting bigger. For the first time, YouTube really needs to worry about losing its position as the king of online video.

Facebook video, which is relatively young in comparison to YouTube which launched in 2005, is now delivering 4 billion daily viewers.

YouTube is testing smooth 60fps video streaming in ultra high-def 4K resolution

After YouTube announced its support for smooth 60 frames per second (fps) video playback last October, TechCrunch reports that the streaming platform is now experimenting with high framerate video at 4K resolution.

YouTube’s reportedly planning a subscription service for on-demand video

YouTube may soon offer viewers a subscription-based video-on-demand (SVOD) service. A content creation studio’s comment to Variety reveals that the video platform is “exploring the prospect of launching its own subscription VOD service.”

YouTube is testing a way to view videos from multiple angles

Concerts, sports games, and even podcasts could get more dynamic on YouTube thanks to a new feature the company is testing out. YouTube today began experimenting with a way to let viewers change cameras during a video, something that requires additional production from videomakers.

'YOUTUBE is EVIL': Somebody had a tape running, Google...

Analysis It's not often a $450bn multinational is humbled by a single classical musician with a tape recorder. Yet that seems to be what happened this weekend.

Google spends billions on marketing, paying lobbyists and buying influence. It funds over 150 organisations and overtook Goldman Sachs last year as the biggest corporate political donor in the USA.

It has politicians and regulators firmly where it wants them – and can sue the ones who aren't. Google must, therefore, have thought that cellist Zoë Keating would be a pushover. Keating releases her own work without a record label, and so conducts her negotiations herself. No fancy lawyers here to complicate things. Right?

YouTube declined Flash in favor of HTML5 by default

The team of development  had announced that now  HTML5 will be the standard of default settings for playing movies, instead of Flash. HTML5 will be used for playback of content service on the web browser Google Chrome, MS IE11, Apple Safari 8 and beta versions of Mozilla Firefox.
A few years ago zapustileksperimentalnuyu YouTube version of the player to HTML5 devices or OS, which does not support Flash Player, or simply do not want to use it (for example, iOS).