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YouTube Goes International

Posted by Zonk on from the kitty-washing-machine-en-espanol dept.

Bizzeh writes "YouTube has announced that they plan to go international. The video site, owned by Google, has launched nine country-specific versions across Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK. The BBC reports: 'YouTube is now stressing its credentials as a platform not just for user-generated content but also for professional broadcaster and advertisers. The company says it has more than 1,000 global partners, with more than 150 deals signed in Europe since March. [Chad Hurley, YouTube co-founder] said: "We respect copyright and we want to create new revenue streams to create opportunities. "We have been working with rights holders to help them leverage new audiences."'"

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  1. No German version? by MavEtJu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interesting that they left out a German version. After all, there way much more Germans than Dutchmen.

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    1. Re:No German version? by pazZz · · Score: 1, Interesting

      what a bullshit. No interesseted in a german youtube version. OF COURSE ^^ Its more about Copyright i think because in Germany Copy right seems to be really hard and other companies like pandora for example closed there services for Germany and other European Countrys. Maybe they were just to lazy to do a german version ;)

  2. Channels by interiot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well-known examples of producer-specific channels include BBC, NBA, and Al Jazeera.

    So major content providers are partnering with YouTube, but their YouTube videos are essentially DRM-free (they can still be downloaded like normal youtube videos can). So are content providers starting to care less about DRM now? Or since most of them are putting teaser promotional videos up, not full-length content, they don't worry so much if the short snippets are copied elsewhere?

  3. Video.Google by Enderandrew · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can someone please explain to me why Google bought YouTube, merged the search results for the two sites, etc. but still hasn't ported over some of the nicer features of the video.google.com player?

    Doesn't it make sense to merge the best features of the two sites and the two players?

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  4. Awwww. by nixkuroi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does this mean that the Japanese are going to start paying attention to all the copyrighted anime, game shows, talk shows and dramas people have put on there?

    Damn internationalization is going to ruin my interweb. :P

  5. Did you know... by suv4x4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    YouTube accounts for 10% of Internet traffic. Imagine that. That's more than milions of other site do, combined.

    And they built that entirely on venture capital (until they got bought by google).

    I read all the time about competing video sites bragging about their high def videos - could they possibly sustain the video playback count of YouTube with such high bandwidth videos? I really doubt that. And no wonder YouTube stays low quality as well.