YouTube Mobile in 2007?

Posted by Blake Robinson

While users can already upload videos to YouTube using mobile phones, there currently is no way to watch videos from YouTube by phone. That could all change within the next year, however. At the OgilvyOne Verge Digital Summit yesterday, YouTube founder Chad Hurley stated that by the end of 2007, YouTube would likely “have something on a mobile device.”

With the recent Google buyout of YouTube and Google becoming increasingly mobile, I daresay, we’ll start seeing YouTube on mobile devices sooner than year’s end 2007. At any rate, we’ll keep you posted as more information develops.

YouTube to Go Mobile [Adage via ArsTechnica]

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1. [...] Via: MobileCrunch - YouTube Mobile in 2007? Technorati tags: YouTube, Mobile Media, Streaming Media [...]

   Pingback by The Mobile Lifestyle » Blog Archive » Will YouTube go mobile in 2007? — November 2, 2006 @ 6:58 pm

2. мобилен YouTube догодина…

    
   Очаквах това да се случи по-рано. Един от създателите на YouTube – Чад Хърли оЅ

   Trackback by Всичко за Nokia E61. На български! — November 3, 2006 @ 12:50 am

3. Actually, owners of the Palm Treo and other devices that can operate the newly released Kinoma Media Player 4EX can watch YouTube and Google Video along with many other online video sources now.
   http://www.kinoma.com/index/Player4

   I watched a bunch of videos last night and the quality of both picture and sound is excellent streaming over Sprint’s EVDO network.

   Comment by Jim Washok, CEO, OTAir impulse marketing — November 3, 2006 @ 5:24 am

4. It shows you that Mobile is a different environment. YouTube went from nothing to $1.65b in 21 months… now they say it will take 14 months just to get to mobile.

   There are two problems…

   1. Bandwidth. The cellular network is a radio network not the same as “copper”. Downloading a 3mb - 5mb is going to eat the processor

   2. The advertising model. The web is segmented from a channel perspective. The desktop attributes (mouse, big screen, keyboard, high speed processor) are simply not available on the mobile device. It gets back to your holy grail argument - how can I send something so compelling to the “customer” that he wants to read it. You can’t until you know more about him - and right now the carriers aren’t sharing that information - and asking the mobile user to type in anything on that device is simply a non starter.

   Cheers,

   Peter

   Comment by Peter Cranstone — November 3, 2006 @ 7:34 am

5. The more important question is the percentage of YouTube’s audience that accesses the Internet via their mobile device. If that number is low, does anyone care about a 14 month time horizon???

   Comment by Southland — November 3, 2006 @ 5:35 pm

6. The application of a mobile YouTube is perplexing. Do people really want to look at a tiny little screen for more than 3 seconds?

   Comment by cjmorris — November 3, 2006 @ 8:18 pm

7. What does “YouTube Going Mobile in 14 Months” Mean Exactly?…

   Chad Hurley stirred a lot of waves in the OgivlyOne Digital Media Summit last week. His statement about YouTube “having something for mobile devices” in 2007 was way overblown, including the expected coverage by Techrunch, MobileCrunch, Red…

   Trackback by De Gardener — November 4, 2006 @ 8:23 am

8. [...] Cellphone as YouTube tube [...]

   Pingback by The Law of Mobility » Blog Archive » Converged Products: Week of 11/5/06 — November 6, 2006 @ 3:59 am

9. fyi - http://www.moblr.com — in beta version — already delivers videos for mobile devices

   Comment by tao — November 8, 2006 @ 12:01 am

10. Actually, you can watch youtube videos on your phone now at tinytube.net - the site transcodes them on-demand to 3GP for mobile playback.

    Comment by AD — November 9, 2006 @ 6:40 pm

11. Cool, the only thing missing is the kind of cell phone that this would work well on. The thing that would bother me is if I tried to watch more than one minute videos how would the connection hold out?

    Comment by Lauri — November 9, 2006 @ 10:31 pm

12. [...] Así, recientemente se ha anunciado que a finales de 2007 se podrán ver los vídeos de YouTube en los teléfonos móviles (en la actualidad se pueden subir vídeos desde los móviles pero no verlos). Además también se ha publicado que YouTube podría estar negociando con Verizon con la finalidad de que los vídeos de YouTube se pudieran ver en los móviles de Verizon (y en la futura plataforma IPTV de este operador). [...]

    Pingback by Mi otro blog… » Blog Archive » Vídeo en el móvil: YouTube, Soapbox y Veeker — November 14, 2006 @ 2:43 pm

13. you can use orb.com to stream videos

    Comment by raz — March 2, 2007 @ 10:41 pm

14. We’ve done what YouTube is describing.
    You can visit our site and check it out.
    All content on this site is both searchable and streamable to handhelds.

    Regards,

    Mark Krebs
    CTO, Movidity Inc.
    http://www.movidity.com

    see…www.movy.tv

    Comment by Mark Krebs — June 1, 2007 @ 12:22 pm

15. I think it’s a great idea to bring YouTube to mobile devices across the globe.

    Comment by Emma Kirk — September 24, 2007 @ 7:39 pm

16. elal ve thanks :)

    Comment by sohbet — October 8, 2007 @ 9:03 pm

17. thanks a lot..

    Comment by sohbet — October 18, 2007 @ 5:07 pm

18. thank you very much

    Comment by forum — October 29, 2007 @ 12:48 pm

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