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AOL's video business attracts 42 million unique viewers a month
According to a story in Beet.TV, AOL is steaming about 700 million videos per month to an audience of about 42 million unique viewers.
Google to build standalone retail stores
According to "an extremely reliable source" speaking to 9to5Google 's Seth Weintraub, the Internet search engine-cum-online-video leader (via YouTube) is "in the process of building standalone retail stores in the U.S. and hopes to have the first flagship Google Stores open for the holidays in major metropolitan areas."
Reports: Google wants to buy a chunk of VEVO
Google is reportedly looking to put $50 million into music video service VEVO, with the goal of keeping VEVO's music videos on its YouTube online video service.
YouTube toying with subscription model
YouTube, the bastion of amateur and professional free videos, will launch paid subscriptions for individual channels as early as this spring, a story in Advertising Age reported.
Google overhauls YouTube Capture, Currents apps for iOS
Roughly a month after launching its YouTube Capture video shooting and sharing application for Apple's iOS, Google is rolling out a new update touting enhanced video quality.
Apple did Google a favor by dumping YouTube from iOS
Although Apple's controversial decision to remove preloaded Google Maps access from iOS 6 attracted most of the attention, let's not forget it ousted another Google app at the same time: YouTube, which returned to iOS devices in mid-September as a standalone, ad-supported app.
Google Fiber 'not a hobby,' exec says during earnings call
Google Fiber, the mega-broadband offering that has created the nickname "Silicon Prairie" for Kansas City (Missouri and Kansas), is no "hobby," Patrick Pichette, the company's senior vice president and CFO, said during a fourth quarter earnings call yesterday afternoon.
Microsoft: Google is sabotaging YouTube on Windows Phone
A Microsoft legal representative has alleged that Google is deliberately stifling the company's efforts to build a full-featured YouTube video application optimized for its Windows Phone mobile operating system.
Honda Civic drives viewers to YouTube
The people in the U.K. are apparently fascinated with the Honda Civic--or, conversely, Honda has found a way to really draw attention to its car in the U.K. Either way, an advertisement for the Honda Civic topped the list of most watched automotive videos on YouTube in the U.K. in 2012.
Informa: Online video worth to hit $37B in 5 years
Just based on the popularity of services like YouTube and Netflix, the online video market should be worth $37 billion by 2017, researchers at Informa Telecoms & Media have said.
