According to Internet solutions company Sandvine , the overwhelming leader in US and Canada downstream traffic is a super popular online video site–but that site isn’t YouTube.Per Sandvine’s most recent report , Netflix ‘s streaming service accounts for 32.3% of all downstream Internet traffic at homes in the US/Canada, making it the undisputed leader in eating up your bandwidth. YouTube was in second place at 17.1%, meaning it will need to account for 89% more traffic to catch Netflix.

ABC is making their live broadcasts available through their "Watch ABC" app, which is being regarded as a move to combat embattled live-streaming service Aereo. ABC becomes the first major network to make an app available to broadcast all their shows live.

Netflix just lost Warner Bros., MGM, and Universal from its streaming archive, as those studios have now decided to move to Warner Archive Instant. The move illustrates the difficulty a rental service has (not to mention the difficulties consumers have) when it comes to all the different choices created by exclusivity.

Coachella 2013 will be hitting YouTube again, and continues a tradition I hope never ends: live events being able to be found from the comfort of your own home. This year's festival takes place starting Friday, April 12-Sunday April 14 and streaming live from Indio, CA.

There are some whispers about the availability of YouTube Live Stream for everyone. No, no...we must settle down. Only people who already have it can use it, and it's merely improvements to the service as-is.

YouTube is working on adaptive bitrate streaming for mobile and TV, because buffering is awful. Buffering and other kinds of interruption caused $2.16 billion in lost revenue last year for the online video industry, and people tend to leave after a couple of seconds of bad video

Lots of talk about subscription channels lately in YouTube Land.

It's something that we all should know at this point: low quality video will turn your viewers off in a heartbeat.

While we were at Streaming Media West last month, we took some time to catch up with WeVideo, the amazingly cool cloud-based video editing people, and found out details about some very neat new features that they've just recently launched as part of their new ...

I was out in LA this week and had a great time.