SearchEngineUpdate with Vanessa Zamora - 06-19-2008 Part I
Abstract: 1. YouTube Launches YouTube Screening Room, 2. Airlines to Offer In-Flight Web Access With Gogo, 3. RateItAll Gets $800k For “Yelp For Everything”
Vanessa Zamora
Video Content Producer, SearchEngineWorld
5:10 pm on June 19, 2008 (utc 0)
Transcript
Thursday June 19, 2008
YouTube Launches YouTube Screening Room
Video Web site YouTube is experimenting with full-length video, expanding beyond its standard 10 minute video limit, in attempt to generate more advertising opportunity. The project, called the YouTube Screening Room is meant to appeal to independent film makers, but is currently limited to YouTube content partners. YouTube began recruiting independent film makers this week at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Filmmakers can benefit from the ability to sell DVDs or digital copies of their work as well as collect a majority share of ad revenue generated from video views. The Screening room will feature four new high-quality short films every two weeks and the possible inclusion of feature length films. What better way to get around copyright infringement than to turn the massive YouTube audience into viewers of its own big screen projects in the making.
American Airlines will debut an in flight wireless Internet access service called Gogo as early as July. The service offers passengers with WiFi capable devices the ability to do everything expect make phone calls online. The Gogo service, supplied by Denver-based company Aircell, will be available for flights between New York and Los Angeles, and San Francisco and Miami for a flat fee of $12.95 for trips of three hours or longer, and $9.95 for shorter trips. The service will expand to all of Virgin American routes later this year, pending success of the first deployments. Aircell also says it is in negotiations to offer the Gogo service on several other major U.S. airlines by next year.
Review and opinion driven web site RateItAll, which lets users share thoughts on any conceivable topic, with a revenue sharing program that sets its apart form other opinion driven sites, has just closed an $800k round of funding. The online community that describes itself as a “distributed yelp for everything” has grown in the past year to a million monthly unique visitors, and has seen features of the site, such as its Myspace application drive ratings from 10,000 new ratings in February up to 70,000 in May.
