Facebook wants To Dominate Mobile Video Ads

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxg3osNAu4Nl-__W5lex-_wIRFVHVRXq_tJOehYAmiONhIR0BDDnVrt8jNpGUtIHywx9dIicWxDE_J5wcmJp64Mi8qQPOVGgpk-vwRBk6gyCu4EM9XJooVBVWdScw6xcPeSZey-TrgXxYG/s320/gty_facebook_ll_130821_16x9_992.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: start;"><i>Facebook</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxg3osNAu4Nl-__W5lex-_wIRFVHVRXq_tJOehYAmiONhIR0BDDnVrt8jNpGUtIHywx9dIicWxDE_J5wcmJp64Mi8qQPOVGgpk-vwRBk6gyCu4EM9XJooVBVWdScw6xcPeSZey-TrgXxYG/s1600/gty_facebook_ll_130821_16x9_992.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facebook’s taking on an unlikely target: YouTube.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The social network is not planning to become a video Website, but a leaked pitch deck <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/13/facebook-vs-tv-and-youtube/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: 0.3s; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">published by TechCrunch</a> indicates that Facebook would like to be advertisers’ go-to for mobile video ad spend. The presentation, “Facebook for Business: Video on Facebook,” delves into the stats that bolster its claim.</span></div><div class="what-to-do" style="background-color: white; border-left-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); border-style: none none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 3px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="what-to-do-header" style="border: 0px none; display: block; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What to Do:</span></span><strong style="border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Use Facebook with other ad campaigns to maximize effectiveness. Consider Facebook especially when targeting millennials. Compare analytics from Facebook and YouTube campaigns to determine best practices for different demographics and products.</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why Facebook? Three reasons: First, changing consumer behavior means that marketers should “be where people are. Secondly, it allows them to “reach all of the people who matter to you.” Finally, Facebook’s News Feed is “the most engaging digital real estate.”</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="tweet" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; display: table; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facebook claims its ads are 60 percent more accurately targeted than the competition.</span></em></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first element, changing consumer behavior, refers to the fact that television is “no longer a guaranteed audience.” According to eMarketer, people will spend more time on digital media than on TV in 2013. Nielsen, which has long released the TV ratings that advertisers depend upon for media buys, recently announced that it would <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/business/media/nielsen-to-measure-twitter-chatter-about-tv.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: 0.3s; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">incorporate Twitter messages </a>to create a new metric for rating TV shows based on social engagement.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That digital media includes Facebook. The company reports that people check their phone 100 times a day, and Facebook 10 to 15 times each day. Facebook and Instagram make up 21 percent of total time spent on mobile. In general, eMarketer reports that more than 28 percent of time spent online or on a smartphone is <a href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Key-Trends-2014-Always-On-Means-Always-Social/1010448" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: 0.3s; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">spent on social networking</a>. Social networking ad spending, which was 8.5 percent of total U.S. ad spend in 2012, is projected to hit 12.2 percent by 2015. Digital ad spending in general, which will be $9.5 billion in 2013, is expected to reach<a href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Retailers-Digital-Ad-Spending-Reach-Record-Levels-2013/1010418" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: 0.3s; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> $13.8 billion by 2017</a>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A second element, “targeted reach,” is basically a testament to the 179 million people who use Facebook each month. Per day, it’s 128 million people, 101 million of which are on mobile. Television, according to Nielsen ratings, reaches less people ages 18 to 24 each day than Facebook does. Further, Facebook claims that it can deliver “incremental reach” above TV, increasing its reach primarily among 25- to 34-year-olds, and especially during the day, when it increases reach 125 to 160 percent.</span></div>

Facebook wants To Dominate Mobile Video Ads

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YouTube Lets All Verified Accounts To Stream Live Videos

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHqCX6kjzDZzmmZkhYgZHmnMxldiB-etvNbJEE3slvt2BSiJVRukCS1AlF-jCCYak5uYKtoM1iYEiAzU5GMUbCfJkOGzmUZjSUaPFj3GRl4UK1jr8EwneUvHjllXiWiYC_gWNMt2roHavD/s1600/youtube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHqCX6kjzDZzmmZkhYgZHmnMxldiB-etvNbJEE3slvt2BSiJVRukCS1AlF-jCCYak5uYKtoM1iYEiAzU5GMUbCfJkOGzmUZjSUaPFj3GRl4UK1jr8EwneUvHjllXiWiYC_gWNMt2roHavD/s1600/youtube.jpg" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>YouTube </i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is some good news for people who like to stream live videos on YouTube. This access was granted only to a small number of accounts, which had a minimum following. After Thursday's announcement, YouTube is letting anyone with a verified account in good standing to stream live videos to the Web.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The requirement of 100 subscribers was brought down from 1000 followers in May.  Relaxing the restriction based on the number of followers will grant access to a larger number of accounts to enjoy the feature, provided they are verified and in good standing.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">According to YouTube, an account with good standing must have no community guidelines or copyright infractions and should not have any videos blocked by the site's own content ID in the last six months. The status of your account can be checked <strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/features" target="_blank">here</a></strong>. If the account is not verified, users can do it right away by requesting a verification code and entering it on the site to verify the account.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In addition to streaming live sports, news, music and games, users can also stream a Google+ Hangout on Air on YouTube. This new feature will give a better shot at connecting with fans and attracting more participants.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"To give you even more ways to connect with fans, you can now launch a Google+ Hangout on Air directly from the YouTube Live events manager," Satyajeet Salgar, product manager, and Tim James, software engineer, <a href="http://youtubecreator.blogspot.in/2013/12/now-you-can-live-stream-on-youtube.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>wrote</strong> </a>in the company's blog. "This gives you a simple way to reach your fans live and is the ideal way to invite participants to join your show."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Google-owned YouTube has an incredible <strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">statistics</a> </strong><strong>report</strong>, with more than 1 billion unique visitors each month  and daily subscriptions by new users are up by four times since last year. The latest expansion poses a bigger challenge to other companies such as Ustream, Brightcove and Livestream.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Source :<a href="http://www.hngn.com/articles/19499/20131213/youtube-lets-verified-accounts-stream-live-videos-regardless-number-followers.htm"> HNGN </a></i></span></span><br />

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YouTube check spam comments

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEnKacUi49BxikN1u6vyP8JPwi47C4sjTrf6cUxMs6fH6cK-FNBHtlTjoyzTC3Nhgh4piyK5yHa-zwYohuMqcdYicckQsplkX4Nh6lzUZZbpF9IdAn6DFbkaeCNdwd6X1TSYGo1I5OE7z7/s1600/youtube.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEnKacUi49BxikN1u6vyP8JPwi47C4sjTrf6cUxMs6fH6cK-FNBHtlTjoyzTC3Nhgh4piyK5yHa-zwYohuMqcdYicckQsplkX4Nh6lzUZZbpF9IdAn6DFbkaeCNdwd6X1TSYGo1I5OE7z7/s1600/youtube.jpeg" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">YouTube is changing its revamped comments system to fend off a new wave of spam, but the company is sticking with its controversial decision to tie the system to its Google+ social network.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The original changes were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/07/youtube-comments-trolls-moderation-google" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">made in early November</a> in what YouTube described as an attempt to ensure "YouTube comments will become conversations that matter to you". Channel owners were given more tools to moderate comments and block certain keywords, while the comments section was re-ordered to bubble up "engaged discussions" to the top.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since then, creators have loudly complained that the changes have fuelled a new wave of spam – YouTube's own video explaining them featured a prominent ASCII-art penis for some time.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The site's most popular creator, Swedish gamer PewDiePie, even turned off his comments, claiming that his videos were being overrun with "Links to virus sites, advertisers, self-advertisers, spam, copy and paste pics of dogs".</span></div><div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a new blog post, <a href="http://youtubecreator.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/an-update-on-youtube-comments.html" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">YouTube admits that there have been problems</a>. "While the new system dealt with many spam issues that had plagued YouTube comments in the past, it also introduced new opportunities for abuse and shortly after the launch, we saw some users taking advantage of them," it explains.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/26/youtube-spam-comments-google-plus">theguardian.com</a></span></i></div>

YouTube check spam comments

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AdBlock Plus erases YouTube's clutter and contentious Google+ comments

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvv5nvRWpj5POk0KW1RD6QjBkYhB0VuWqGje12By5qPYwI73IJGZTos9TfyJlFIBC0d9MgMnSQ6QEUWRgBpXJOUo-pCcFU-KjRAaWDAnzgr543iXENwI1BI-OUZGFBzQ43-fRNrUonPmA/s1600/add.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvv5nvRWpj5POk0KW1RD6QjBkYhB0VuWqGje12By5qPYwI73IJGZTos9TfyJlFIBC0d9MgMnSQ6QEUWRgBpXJOUo-pCcFU-KjRAaWDAnzgr543iXENwI1BI-OUZGFBzQ43-fRNrUonPmA/s400/add.PNG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AdBlock Plus from Eyeo is expanding its mission to clean up more than just annoying Flash ads. The browser add-on still blocks online ads—except for the whitelisted ones—but ABP is now turning its attention to information overload on popular social networks.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The latest social site to fall victim to ABP's editorial pen is YouTube, thanks to the new YouTube Customizer site. The feature helps you banish all the bits of the video site that annoy you, while keeping the ones you enjoy.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To get started, you must have AdBlock Plus installed on Chrome, Firefox, or Opera. Next, just visit AdBlock's YouTube customization page to start blocking YouTube's various "features."</span></div><figure class=" large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're generally annoyed with the current state of YouTube you can block everything but the video you're watching. The list of banished items includes comments, suggested videos, featured and recommended videos in the end screen, the sharing tab in the description, in-video annotations, and channel recommendations.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's a breathtaking list of YouTube cruft and dumping it all may be a step too far for most of us. What good is YouTube, after all, if you can't waste the afternoon following an endless stream of recommended videos.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instead of blocking everything, ABP includes options to only block comments, or only suggestions and recommendations, or only the sharing tab and in-video annotations.</span></div><figure class=" large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You could also block some mixture of the above—for example, blocking comments and annotations but leaving recommendations intact. If you have any YouTube pages open after you add AdBlock's customizations you may have to refresh the page for your changes to take effect. And if you ever want to return YouTube to the data buffet it once was, check out ABP's instructions on how to remove your customizations.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It also goes without saying (but I'll say it anyway) that your changes only work on the browser where you have AdBlock Plus installed and first added the YouTube filters.</span></div><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The comments broke the camel's back</span></h2><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eyeo says the recent switch to Google+ logins for YouTube's commenting system inspired the new ABP customization tool.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Google+ switch is supposed to improve YouTube's notoriously vile commenting culture. But critics say the site also lost some important advantages, such as anonymous comments independence from Google+—the company's social service that is creeping into every facet of Google products.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AdBlock Plus has been on a tear recently to let users customize their favorite social sites.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In October, ABP rolled out a similar customization tool for Facebook that lets you banish content from the sidebar and news feed. Earlier in November, the browser add-on let you tweak Twitter by casting out photo and Vine previews from your timeline.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eyeo isn't finished yet, and is taking suggestions for the sites ABP should clean-up next. If a particular site annoys you to no end, let the ABP crusaders know by sharing a comment on the AdBlock Plus Facebook page</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via:<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2066206/adblock-plus-erases-youtubes-clutter-and-contentious-google-comments.html"> PCWorld.</a></span></i></div>

AdBlock Plus erases YouTube's clutter and contentious Google+ comments

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YouTube returns after a short, widely seen outage

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho0zYH4BmEe0S6JLi5epQpXmXsyUxa7Dc5DEHky8pSnWj0WJIr-Cmk2j0-qQ17rEG_kP94xyY6a47U8ZxUL5x-Yk6U6D23-sdZaosXOT_KA0qYYVFpYbas6RCum2YPshaCX5QS8n0OpQvu/s1600/youtube_logo-100067591-large.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho0zYH4BmEe0S6JLi5epQpXmXsyUxa7Dc5DEHky8pSnWj0WJIr-Cmk2j0-qQ17rEG_kP94xyY6a47U8ZxUL5x-Yk6U6D23-sdZaosXOT_KA0qYYVFpYbas6RCum2YPshaCX5QS8n0OpQvu/s640/youtube_logo-100067591-large.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A brief YouTube outage on Monday was the one of the biggest recent glitches for the popular video site, according to a company that uses complaints on Twitter and other sources to measure the impact of online outages.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Around 3 p.m. Pacific Time, the site started displaying a plain-text page with a “500 internal service error” message that read, “Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Google’s YouTube division issued a statement but didn’t immediately give a reason for the outage, which lasted about 10 minutes, or detail how many people it affected.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Some people encountered errors, or a slower than normal experience on YouTube today,” the statement said. “We worked quickly to address the issue and fixed the problem. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this caused.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUP5v8AYzkKflgbLhRbwSO5CTx3nEfxrlT6tUiz-b_vBOeIdoFdF8YzWLCasC5GVs75tZApt_wGiNNjnB7NHLdSlXYt6ugzdPIPu2eKYN31Av0eCPIYpVQkDK21_4JDEZe-_kmolcy_l-W/s1600/id-2064720-131118-youtube-100068912-large.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUP5v8AYzkKflgbLhRbwSO5CTx3nEfxrlT6tUiz-b_vBOeIdoFdF8YzWLCasC5GVs75tZApt_wGiNNjnB7NHLdSlXYt6ugzdPIPu2eKYN31Av0eCPIYpVQkDK21_4JDEZe-_kmolcy_l-W/s640/id-2064720-131118-youtube-100068912-large.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Via : <a href="http://www.techhive.com/article/2064720/youtube-returns-after-a-short-widely-seen-outage.html">TechHive</a></span></i></div>

YouTube returns after a short, widely seen outage

A brief YouTube outage on Monday was the one of the biggest recent glitches for the popular video site, according to a company that uses com...

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