Google wants their new VP9 codec to be royalty-free, but patent disputes could prevent that from happening. Meanwhile, VP9 is supposed to have double the image quality using half the compression of H.264. In other news: H.264 could be H.265 soon, so there's that

Peanuts Worldwide, a new company that owns the rights to Charles Schultz's "Peanuts" comic strip, has signed Khoa Phan to create 12 "Peanuts" Vines as the company hopes to enter Charlie Brown and the gang back into public consciousness as a movie is planned for 2015.

You got an account in good standing? 1,000 subscribers? You're set up with SMS verification?

If Youtube wanted to solicit any valuable information they would break down where the views are directed towards. As youtube continues to blossom, I feel less interested in what the company can provide to me as a hosting service for my explanatory videos.

China's Baidu is purchasing video portal PPS and merging it with their iQiyi platform to create the largest video company according to mobile users and watch time. The merger takes place not so long after Youku and Tudou merged to become an online video behemoth.

The first 3 months of 2013 saw an increase of 84% for U.S. ads viewed via a desktop PC or laptop compared to Q1 2012.

When it comes to finding your videos on your own personal website in Google search, you're best off having a YouTube video embedded there, according to data discovered by Searchmetrics.

A ton of videos this week have cinematic qualities: a killer robot named Abe, a bunch of killer giant robots and monsters in Pacific Rim, how the Captain America shield is made, and a ton more.

Really? 6 billion hours a month? How do we have time to do anything at that rate

The highly-coveted YouTube Live Stream is being made available to Congress. How will politicians use this new tool to their advantage? Will they use it at all?