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Title: Yahoo to Expand Web Video Service In Face of Rivals

Author: Delaney, Kevin J Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Wall Street Journal, v247 n127 pB5(1) Publication Date: Jun 1, 2006
  ISSN: 0193-2241
URL of Publication: http://www.wsj.com

Yahoo! will introduce a better Web video service as a way to improve its ability to compete with such providers as YouTube and Google. Yahoo! said the service will allow people to easily upload video clips to the Yahoo! site and also to rate and share videos. The service is an expansion of a video-search service launched by Yahoo! in December 2004 that allows users to search for video from Yahoo! and other Web sources. In March, consumers viewed 3.7 billion Web video streams, which breaks down to about an average of 100 minutes of video content per viewer, says research firm comScore Networks. According to video-sharing company YouTube, consumers watch over 50 million videos each day on its site and upload more than 50,000 videos each day to YouTube. New features on the Yahoo! video service include the ability to watch groups of videos that are related according to source or topic and the added ability to mark such channels for updates and future viewing. Yahoo! says there are many millions of videos available through the video service, including links to videos on other Web sites, including YouTube and Google Video. Among topics covered are adult content copyright issues and how they are handled by Yahoo! and YouTube.

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