Google announced through it’s blog that YouTube has launched a South Africa version. YouTube is teaming up with South African broadcasters to fill the new version with locally produced content, as well as educational content from universities, such as the Rhodes Journalism School. While YouTube is of course available to anyone on the Internet , [...]
February 25, 2010 – 12:56 pm
DoGooder is organizing it’s 4th annual non-profit video awards in collaboration with See3 Communications and YouTube. The winners will be treated to great prices including:
Featured video on the YouTube homepage
Prizes from Flip Video and Nonprofit Technology Network
Recognition at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta on Saturday, April 10, 2010
A $2,500 donation from the [...]
February 8, 2010 – 9:44 am
On 4 February, YouTube launched a health awareness round on their Video volunteers Chanel to mark World Cancer Day. Through the initiative, anyone can make/upload up to three minute long videos promoting a chosen health organization’s work.The three most popular videos will be featured on the YouTube Homepage at the end of the month, offering [...]
September 7, 2009 – 1:23 pm
A new public service announcement (PSA) released on YouTube depicting four deaths caused by texting while at the wheel, has provoked wide debate and resulted in more than 2 million views on YouTube alone. The four-minute video, produced by local police in Gwent (UK), once again shows that strong viral ingredients, in this case stark [...]
A few weeks back, Nielsen released their Three Screen Report, which measures the viewing habits of Americans in terms of TV, the Internet, and mobile phones. The research showed that while TV viewing is still dominant, online video usage is up by 53% from last year, and the number of people watching video via mobiles [...]
Social media has over the past week been domianted by swine flu (H1N1) discussion. This weeks experience is the perfect example of why health/development agencies must take their messgae to where people are, and where the discussion is happening.
WHO raised the pandemic level to an alarming 5 (out of 6), and panicked people across the [...]
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We’re proud to announce that our latest video, developed for WHO’s European Immunization Week, is being spotlighted on YouTube. The video, launched two days ago, has been very well received and is being actively commented and reviewed in social media. The video has also risen to the most viewed category on YouTube. Check it below:
April 22, 2009 – 10:29 am
For its fourth European Immunization Week (EIW) the World Health Organization (WHO) is, for the first time, leveraging innovative Internet-based viral techniques and social media to advocate for immunization across Europe. The initiative, taking place in 36 countries from 20-26 April, is spearheaded by an animated YouTube video. launched today, that aims to spread the [...]
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April 16, 2009 – 11:35 am
YouTube recently launched a new Call to Action feature for their non-profit partners.. The tool enables in-video overlays that help drive traffic to out-of-video pages, allowing users to collect email-addresses, signatures and even donations from viewers. The feature has been tried successfully by the World Water Day campaign: video viewers donated over $10,000 in just [...]
