YouTube Wants to Hear from You

Today at 4pm EST/1 pm PST Sun Microsystems will upset the entire Reg FD Press Release ecosystem.

November 2009 marked a new milestone for online video viewing. According to a new report from comScore, over 170 million Internet users in the U.S. watched online video in November 2009 for a total of nearly 31 billion videos viewed during the month.

According to Nielsen, the growth in online video over the past six months has been significant with the time spent viewing online video by the overall Internet audience growing by 16% in just six months (from November 2008 to April 2009).

Newstex President Larry Schwartz spoke at the SIIA NetGain Conference this week about cloud computing and how Newstex leverages the cloud to support its business model.

For the eighth year in a row, Newstex has been named to the EContent 100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry list.

The March 2009 issue of eContent Magazine features commentary by Newstex President Larry Schwartz in an article called Content in the Cloud (link note: subscription and registration required to view the full article on econtentmag.com).

Google has officially launched its new YouTube Direct, which allows organizations to better manage reader video submissions. The Huffington Post, San Fransisco Chronicle, NPR and Politico have all signed on to use YouTube Direct as a resource.The process for organizations to use YouTube Direct is simple.

A new research report from Sysomos, a social media analytics company, was released in June and provides interesting insight into the world of Twitter.

The new Three Screen Report from Nielsen is out. It's a quarterly report that analyzes video viewing habits on three screens - traditional television, Internet, and mobile phones.