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YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money

Dec. 11, 2008
Making videos for YouTube -- a pastime for millions of Web surfers -- is now a way to make a living.
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Failed talks prompt Warner to pull videos

NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The Warner Music Group has pulled its videos from YouTube after negotiations regarding the U.S. music company's music videos fell apart, the Web site says.

YouTube had 5 billion views in July

RESTON, Va., Sept. 10 (UPI) -- YouTube attracted 5 billion U.S. online video views in July 2008, comScore reported Wednesday.
YouTube won't take down all Islamist video

YouTube won't take down all Islamist video

WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- Google has refused a request from U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Ind.-Conn., to remove videos produced by terrorist groups from its video-sharing site YouTube.

YouTube spreading anti-vaccination views

TORONTO, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- University of Toronto researchers say there is widespread misinformation concerning the necessity of vaccinations on the video-sharing Web site YouTube.

YouTube to pull German hate videos

BERLIN, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- YouTube won’t be used any longer as a propaganda vehicle for German neo-Nazis.

Montreal police ask for Youtube changes

MONTREAL, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The Montreal Police Service has asked the video sharing Web site Youtube to remove insulting captions from videos of officers.

Police condemn videos of child fights

LONDON, July 29 (UPI) -- Web sites, such as YouTube, encourage violence if they don't remove videos of children brutally fighting each other, British police warned.

YouTube to share ad revenue with posters

SAN FRANCISCO, April 18 (UPI) -- The video-sharing site YouTube may begin offering advertising options for videos as soon as next week, it was announced during a Web expo in San Francisco.

Turkey bans YouTube over insults

ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 8 (UPI) -- The Turkish government has banned YouTube in an effort to quell an escalating dispute between Greek and Turkish users of the Web site.

Google offers YouTube video in searches

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Searches for research papers or personal curiosity on Google now will return videos from the California-based Internet search giant's YouTube unit. Google, which acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, says the change is part of its effort to differen

YouTube signs video distribution deal

NEW YORK, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- The popular video-sharing Web site, YouTube, has signed a distribution deal with New York's Warner Music Group to offer its music videos online.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler