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Nearly a year after YouTube sprinkled $100 million across the online video ecosystem to create more than a hundred new “channels,” it’s doubling down. Google’s video giant will provide a second round of funding to 30% to 40% of its original partners and will start notifying those getting more investment in the next few weeks.

The I Files, a YouTube channel for curated and original news videos from the Center for Investigative Reporting and started with an $800,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, is tapping into the video site’s popularity to find the same alchemy for investigative videos and mass audiences that 60 Minutes has struck in television.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z is live-streaming the last of his eight concerts at New York City’s Barclays Center for the launch of his new YouTube channel. The rapper announced […]

TakePart TV, launching today, is a digital home for what YouTube has termed “clever, eye-opening and optimistic content around big issues that face our planet.” The target audience is millennials ranging from teenage to 30.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 14-minute film trailer blamed for protest violence in the Middle East will remain on YouTube, after an actress lost her legal challenge to take it […]

Google said that it would not comply with a White House request to reconsider the anti-Islam video that has set off violent protests in the Arab world in light of its rules banning hate speech on YouTube. The company had already determined that the video did not violate its terms of service regarding hate speech.

The uproar over the video trailer for Innocence of Muslims raises questions about YouTube’s responsibilities as the Internet’s preeminent distributor of video.

YouTube has launched its own iOS app, bringing advanced features such as social sharing, access to the site’s channel guide and thousands of previously unavailable music videos to the iPhone. The application replaces a system app developed by Apple that won’t be part of iOS 6. The company also says an iPad app is in the works.

YouTube this week said it was enabling mobile publishing for its skippable TrueView in-stream video ad format, which lets viewers skip ads after five seconds.

The new channel will feature political reporting and analysis from such established sources as ABC News, Al Jazeera English, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Univision, together with popular online sources Philip DeFranco and BuzzFeed.

YouTube is helping to launch a new channel with the Center for Investigative Reporting. The new “I Files” channel will curate videos from sources such as the New York Times and Al Jazeera, in a attempt to bring some much needed attention to the fledgling investigative journalism space and bolster YouTube’s multi-million dollar foray into professional content.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) – YouTube is offering people a way to blur faces in submitted video. The new tool is designed for human-rights activists and others who may want […]

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism TOday released its examination of 15 months of the most popular news videos on the Google Inc.-owned site. It found that while viewership for TV news still easily outpaces those consuming news on YouTube, is a growing digital environment where professional journalism mingles with citizen content.

Some YouTube noncelebrities give a brief lesson on how to become a celebrity on the online video service. Watch the video here.

If YouTube wants to be the future of broadcast, then it also has to support the DVR of tomorrow. That’s the main argument of a new online petition urging Google to allow third-party tools and services that record content from YouTube, which has attracted more than 170,000 signatures in just three days.

YouTube is exploring selling subscriptions to access to some of its video offerings, potentially providing a way for certain cable channels to be available outside the traditional “bundles” offered by cable network providers, said YouTube boss Salar Kamangar.

The recent acquisitions of Dailymotion and Metacafe have placed the video hosting sites among the growing number of Web video ventures that once set out to compete with YouTube but never came close.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mister Rogers is making it a beautiful day in the neighborhood again. Fred Rogers, the late host of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” is featured in a PBS […]

Phil DeFranco’s new YouTube channel Sourcefed is expected to hit 100 million views today, but for DeFranco, there’s one more thing left to do: Empower the next generation of YouTubers by founding his own network of content creators.

YouTube is considering the introduction of a premium, subscription-based video service.The video giant is holding conversations with program providers about adding more top-shelf content to its channels but putting it behind a pay-wall as some newspapers have done, sources say.

Millions of users — and viewers — are increasingly seeking alternatives to YouTube, fueling a boom in smaller and nimbler websites like Socialcam and Viddy that cater to more niche audiences — especially in mobile.

NBC’s Ford-sponsored Escape Routes has added a dose of digital innovation to its product placement via the show’s official website, which allows viewers not only to interact with the contestants, but also to actually participate in the competition.

Google’s YouTube is bankrolling about 100 channels covering topics ranging from food to sports that it hopes will attract advertising dollars by getting YouTube users to adopt the habits of television viewers. The success of the channels will test whether YouTube can evolve from a popular hub for home videos into an influential player in the entertainment industry’s big leagues.

At their first Digital Content NewFronts in New York, AOL, Hulu, Microsoft, Yahoo and YouTube tout their professional-grade content to advertisers the way major television networks do.

YouTube’s “original channels” have been seen as the site’s first major effort to take on the television industry — and competitors like Hulu and Netflix — for advertising dollars.

Today, YouTube plans to announce a program it hopes will position the company as a major player in the market for small-business video advertising.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Google is adding 600 movies from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to the titles it has available for rent on YouTube and also Google Play, its digital content store for […]

Online video service YouTube on Thursday updated its Partner Program eligibility in 20 countries, allowing users with at least one uploaded video to monetize their content.

Video-sharing website YouTube aims to spruce up its social networking skills through better integration across platforms, and hopes to more than double annual ad revenue in emerging markets like India, a top executive said.

The new tools allow local media sites to add relavant social media content from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube below their own content and integrate weather content from Weather Central.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed a lower court’s decision to throw out a $1 billion lawsuit that was filed against YouTube by Viacom and other media companies five years ago.

NEW YORK (AP) — YouTube and Paramount Pictures have reached a deal to make nearly 500 films available to rent online, even while their parent companies continue to feud over […]

Here’s a wrapup of some of those slips and gaffes that almost immediately gain wide exposure through YouTube.

YouTube’s $100 million investment in new premium “channels”? Consider it a down payment. YouTube content chief Robert Kyncl says it’s only the beginning of Google’s plan to back original content and the center of a long-term strategy to build the next generation of entertainment brands and an ecosystem that allows them to become profitable businesses.

The broadcaster is teaming up with the Google-owned online video service to provide its video player and livestreaming infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympic Games.