YouTube is the third most popular site in the UK (after Google and Facebook) so it's no coincidence that the British made 10.6 billion visits to video sites in Feb 2013. That's an incredible 323 million hours spent just watching video content in the UK alone.

Yahoo is looking to further build its online video presence through the world’s second most popular video sharing platform. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Internet corporation is in talks to a majority stake in Dailymotion , the French site that pulls in about 116 million uniques each month. Yahoo has already struck up a syndication deal with Dailymotion, but the acquisition would take things one step further

When the Audience Choice Award for Series of the Year was presented at the Streamy Awards , YouTube aficionados had no trouble recognizing most of the nominees. After all, these were the YouTube heavy hitters: With popular series such as Lizzie Bennet Diaries , MyMusic , and eventual winner SourceFed up for the award, the competitors were well-known

The long term ban on user access to YouTube is currently in force in 5 countries:

comScore just put out some numbers for Latin America in regards to online video. I figured it's entirely possible that some of our readers have interest in the region and so I compiled a couple releases to take a look at how online video viewing is moving along with our neighbors to the south

A year ago, Robert Kyncl, YouTube’s Vice President and Global Head of Content, announced

We are coming up on the one year anniversary of the YouTube Original Channels Initiative , when Google invested $100 million into 100 innovative and high-quality creators. There has speculation about whether Google would add to this Initiative, and sure enough, they announced yesterday that they will add 60 new Original Channels , and while some of the new channels are based in the USA , many spots were awarded to channels from the UK , France , and Germany

If you make videos that are universal, that is, not confined to English-speaking countries, it will do your videos a world of good to be able to provide a number of languages so that almost anyone in the world can enjoy them.

Americans, Canadians, South Africans and Australians call it soccer, Spaniards and Latin Americans call it fútbol, but the rest of the world calls it football. But, whatever it’s called, the game is played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport

The leading UK viral marketing videos in the first quarter of 2012 show an interesting mix of big money production and fledgling original successes – and prove that to be a major player in the viral video world