BBC World on YouTube — an Update

For a year BBC World was the laggard. Al Jazeera took off very early in 2007. France 24 picked up more slowly, but it increased clips at YouTube faster than BBC. Then in a single month — roughly the last half of April and the first half of May — BBC shot up to 200+ [...]

Al Jazeera, BBC World, France 24 on YouTube — Once they got the hang of it

YouTube launched in February 2005. By the summer of 2006 it was delivering 2 to 2.5 billion views a month. That made it a very big deal. In October Google purchased it for $1.65 billion. With the Google imprimatur and that volume of delivery the media world began to take it seriously. The silly video [...]

YouTube delivers global news

The standard view: YouTube is for 14 to 24 year olds whose primary interest is in silly or gross video clips. Why should one take YouTube seriously as a delivery of global news? Because video broadcasting is remaking itself one more time.
Once upon a time there were three networks. If you wanted to watch TV [...]

Welcome back

I thought I was back a year ago, but I did not make it. I was not too busy, though I am always too busy, but I discovered I was repeating myself. I was not seeing anything new, and I did not want to do that. There is no point in repetition. So I went [...]