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In a bid to get more advertising revenue, YouTube is having a makeover. The redesign is a bid to become a more attractive place for content owners to show their streams - case in point being Disney who just signed up to a deal with Youtube.
See an example of the new style Youtube
So why the redesign?
Youtube are apparently having big cash flow problems. The problem being that although they make an alleged $240 million in revenue per year. They are currently spending in the region of over $700 million per year. Most of that big hunk of cash (over $350 mill) goes on the phenomenal bandwidth useage.
They (Youtube) Have been trying many different ways to bring in the bacon for the biggest video site in the world including widescreen, HD and more improvements and this is the latest. Features of the new look site include:-
They will remove the current tabs "videos," "channels" and "community" and replace them with four tabs: Movies, Music, Shows, and Videos.The first three tabs are there for ‘premium content', but YouTube doesn't have many licensing agreements yet.Videos in all four sections will feature instream, interruptive advertising, like Hulu do right now.There will be a new player interface. It looks like the Hulu player, marking on the timeline where ads will play and allowing viewers to ‘dim the lights'.The redesign will emphasize a divide between premium content and user uploaded videos.The launch is due to happen on April 16th.The New style Youtube was reported in a Youtube blog post:-
In a constant effort to improve the user experience and incorporate your feedback we'll be making a number of large changes to the site over the next few months. In addition to making improvements upon existing features, we'll be rolling out some brand new items that are still in the works. We can tell you there is a lot to look forward to, but in the meantime we offer you this sneak preview of the new YouTube video browsing page (our "Videos" tab) and invite you to share your feedback with us.
Categories will now be found under the "Videos" tab.
Dropdown menus make for a smoother transition when clicking through popular pages, ie. "Most Viewed," "Top Favorites," "Recently Featured," etc.
Tabs and video browsing pages have a new overall look and feel.
Will this be the last of Youtube's makeovers? Dont bet on it.
The much lauded Yahoo TV Widgets enabled hardware is finally making an appearance. Since our report ‘ Yahoo internet TV widget showing in your TV soon‘.
Although Yahoo calls it's Software app ‘TV Widgets', Samsung who are launching an enabled TV are calling the feature ‘Internet@TV'. The feature gives viewers access to internet services whilst watching TV. Features such as Flickr photos, Youtube, weather, Facebook etc.
Viewers access the internet services using the TV widgets which are overlaid across the TV screen. Viewers can also enable/disable and download new widgets using a remote control.
The new Samsung TV's with the service dont come cheap though. Samsungs Website reveals they will feature in four LED TV sets - A 55 inch, $3,800 UN55B7100 and UN55B7000 models and the smaller 46 inch models, $3,000 UN46B7100 and UN46B7000.
The widget service was devised jointly by Yahoo and Intel, debuting at the CES Show in January. However, Yahoo plans to make TV Widgets available on TV sets that do not posess Intel processors as well.
Yahoo are planning to offer advertising using their new technology as well in the future and more devices enabled with widgets are soon to be released by Vizio,LG and Sony has also revealed Widget plans Yahoo has revealed.
Although it looks pretty swish on a 55 inch TV set, it is an unproven technology that seems not as good as just watching TV online from your PC. The Widget Engine is also known as a resource hungry app requiring large amounts of memory.
But if there is enough take up then this technology could prove a winner. The advice would be to see how it goes.
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