YouTube Goes Political with New Channel


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Just in time for the the 2012 Presidential election race, YouTube has just launched a channel dedicated to all things U.S. politics. The channel will feature political campaign ads, parodies, speeches and a variety of relevant clips.

The channel will also serve as a full-function social video tracker for the 2012 election. Scrolling down the page will reveal graphs and charts comparing each major candidate’s YouTube individual views or subscribers as well as brief profiles condensing their core YouTube stats such as views, video shares and even the amount of times they were searched.

YouTube has been steadily increasing its coverage of American politics including a YouTube town hall with President Obama, a virtual town hall where the public can vote on major issues and co-hosting a GOP Presidential Debate (via Google).

The new channel looks like another step in the right direction for YouTube. The analytics give the channel a sense of purpose and a reason for politics junkies to return to the hub.

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Rdio launches free, non-ad-supported streaming for US users, meter to keep you in check


Ad-free, on-demand streaming is coming your way, folks -- and it won't cost you a dime. Rdio has announced the launch of its free service that will give you access to a library of over 12 million songs without being interrupted by pesky Spotify-esque advertisements. The no cost subscription won't require you to give up your credit card info either, but, you will get a "customized meter" that will let you know how much music you can access monthly. No word yet on how much time you'll have, but any amount of time with the Radiohead discography is sure to be of use. You'll be able to listen via the web or desktop app without grabbing a paid membership, but if you want Rdio's tunes on your phone, it'll cost you $9.99 per month. Also, from what we've heard, this is only available in the US -- for now. If you're looking for the full rundown then hit the PR below for all the details.

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3 More Reasons to Attend the Mashable Media Summit



The second annual Mashable Media Summit will bring to life the biggest changes occurring in media. Held on Nov. 4 at the TimesCenter in New York City, the one-day conference will examine how technology is transforming journalism, advertising and media business models.

Industry professionals who have recently joined our dynamic lineup of speakers include:

These leaders and many more across the media landscape will convene on stage to break news, engage in in-depth interviews, deliver inspiring presentations and participate in thought provoking panel discussions about the latest innovations in the space.

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Tickets include a full day of discussion with thought leaders on stage, intimate networking sessions as well as breakfast, lunch and a wine and cheese reception. Get your tickets now before they sell out.

To get a taste of what’s to come, here are a sample of topics that will be covered at the Mashable Media Summit 2011.


Mashable Media Summit Topics



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A Look Back at Last Year’s Mashable Media Summit



Mashable Media Summit



Times Center



Sponsors Tables



Sponsor Tables



In The Times Center



CNN Tech Unveils New Redesigned Section



Adam Hirsch, Mashable COO



Shira Lazar, Host



Shira Lazar



Ricky Van Veen


Ricky Van Veen, CEO, CollegeHumor / Notional


More Tips from Ricky Van Veen


CEO and Co-Founder of Notional and College Humor Ricky Van Veen presents his Ten Web Content Urban Legends — which were outlined by Mashable’s Brenna Ehrlich — and is interviewed by Peter Kafka, Senior Editor, All Things Digital.


Peter Kafka interviews Ricky Van Veen


CEO and Co-Founder of Notional and College Humor Ricky Van Veen presents his Ten Web Content Urban Legends — which were outlined by Mashable’s Brenna Ehrlich — and is interviewed by Peter Kafka, Senior Editor, All Things Digital.


Peter Kafka Senior Editor of AllThingsD



Len Berman, Sportscaster / Author


Len Berman, an Emmy Award-winning sportscaster and New York Times bestselling author, talks about the transition from old media to new media.


Brian Simpson, Director Social Hospitality at Roger Smith Hotel


Brian Simpson, director of social hospitality at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York, talks about how the hotel uses social media to engage their customers by sharing their stories through social platforms, video and more.


Backstage interviews



Duncan Watts, Yahoo!


Duncan Watts, the principal research scientist at Yahoo, shares his research about social connections and the dynamics of groups.


Duncan Watts on Social Media Science


Duncan Watts, the principal research scientist at Yahoo, shares his research about social connections and the dynamics of groups.


Vadim Lavrusik on Community


Vadim Lavrusik, Mashable’s community manager, talks about how the newsgathering process works at Mashable and its connection to online and offline communities. He also announced June 30 as Social Media Day, a new fellowship program that Mashable has launched with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, as well as Mashable’s new Foursquare page.


Vadim Lavrusik on Web Content


Vadim Lavrusik, Mashable’s community manager, talks about how the newsgathering process works at Mashable and its connection to online and offline communities. He also announced June 30 as Social Media Day, a new fellowship program that Mashable has launched with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, as well as Mashable’s new Foursquare page.


Vadim Lavrusik announces Social Media Day


Vadim Lavrusik, Mashable’s community manager, talks about how the newsgathering process works at Mashable and its connection to online and offline communities. He also announced June 30 as Social Media Day, a new fellowship program that Mashable has launched with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, as well as Mashable’s new Foursquare page.


Adam Ostrow interviews Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley


Mashable Editor-in-Chief Adam Ostrow interviews Dennis Crowley about Foursquare’s recent growth and partnerships, and talks about how the company is looking to add more value to badges.


Adam Ostrow and Dennis Crowley On Stage



Ostrow and Crowley


Mashable Editor-in-Chief Adam Ostrow interviews Dennis Crowley about Foursquare’s recent growth and partnerships, and talks about how the company is looking to add more value to badges.


Crowley Announces new Foursquare features


Mashable Editor-in-Chief Adam Ostrow interviews Dennis Crowley about Foursquare’s recent growth and partnerships, and talks about how the company is looking to add more value to badges.


Christy Wyatt Presents on Motorola Mobile Devices


Christy Wyatt, Corporate VP of Software & Services Product Management, Motorola Mobile Devices, talks about Motorola’s evolution and making connections easier using its devices. She also announced each attendee would be getting a free Motorola phone.


Christy Wyatt on Mobile Strategies


Christy Wyatt, Corporate VP of Software & Services Product Management, Motorola Mobile Devices, talks about Motorola’s evolution and making connections easier using its devices. She also announced each attendee would be getting a free Motorola phone.


Christy Wyatt Announces Mobile Phone Giveaway


Christy Wyatt, Corporate VP of Software & Services Product Management, Motorola Mobile Devices, talks about Motorola’s evolution and making connections easier using its devices. She also announced each attendee would be getting a free Motorola phone.


Crowd



Christy Wyatt Giving Away Free Phones


Christy Wyatt, Corporate VP of Software & Services Product Management, Motorola Mobile Devices, talks about Motorola’s evolution and making connections easier using its devices. She also announced each attendee would be getting a free Motorola phone.


Spotlight on Music and Social Media with Singer Josh Charles


Singer, songwriter and pianist Josh Charles talks about how social media is changing the music industry and the way artists interact with their fans. He also performed for the audience.


Singer Josh Charles Performs


Singer, songwriter and pianist Josh Charles talks about how social media is changing the music industry and the way artists interact with their fans. He also performed for the audience.


Adam Hirsch Announces Lunchtimes!



Mashable's Tamar Weinberg and Lauren Rubin



Attendees Line up to Receive Free Phones



Attendee Shows-off His New Phone



Dennis Crowley and a New Phone



Lunch



Mashable Staff



Attendees Take a Break



Networking at Lunch



Attendees Talk Social Media



More Social Media Talk



Afternoon Networking



Enjoying the Show



More Networking



Attendees Mingle



Enjoying the Media Summit



In the Foyer



Attendees Gather



Networking Time!



Outside the Hall



CNN and Mashable Staff



Taking Action for Social Good with Wendy Harman (Red Cross)


Wendy Harman, social media manager at the Red Cross, talks about how the organization used social media to share information, gather user-generated content and create dialogue around disasters.


Dan Rollman, the president and founder of Universal Record Database.



Universal Record Database Crew



Adam Hirsch and Shira Lazar Present



Chris Bruzzo on How Starbucks Uses Social Media


Chris Bruzzo, VP of Brand, Content & Online at Starbucks Coffee Company, talks about how the company uses “brand journalism” to tell stories, engage its customers, and how it got 1 million customers in stores in one day.


Chris Bruzzo Presentation


Chris Bruzzo, VP of Brand, Content & Online at Starbucks Coffee Company, talks about how the company uses “brand journalism” to tell stories, engage its customers, and how it got 1 million customers in stores in one day.


The Afternoon Keynote Conversation with Dr. Sanjay Gupta (CNN), KC Estenson (CNN) and Pete Cashmore (Mashable)


Mashable Founder and CEO Pete Cashmore is interviewed by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, renowned neurosurgeon and CNN’s general medical correspondent. Both were joined by CNN.com general manager KC Estenson to chat about journalism and the shifts in traditional and digital media.


Sanjay Gupta on Stage



Dr. Sanjay Gupta, KC Estenson and Pete Cashmore



Gupta, Estenson and Cashmore


Mashable Founder and CEO Pete Cashmore is interviewed by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, renowned neurosurgeon and CNN’s general medical correspondent. Both were joined by CNN.com general manager KC Estenson to chat about journalism and the shifts in traditional and digital media.


Audience During the Keynote Conversation



Causing a Scene by Charlie Todd (Improv Everywhere)


Charlie Todd, the founder of Improv Everywhere, reveals that the group was behind the tourist lane stunt in New York City and explains how the stunt went viral.


Baratunde Thurston, The Onion



A Brief Moment in Time with Baratunde Thurston (The Onion)


Baratunde Thurston, the Web editor of The Onion, gives an entertaining presentation on the future of the business and announces Future: News From 2137.


A Product Launch from The Onion


Baratunde Thurston, the Web editor of The Onion, gives an entertaining presentation on the future of the business and announces Future: News From 2137.


A Chat with Scott Belsky of Behance


Scott Belsky, founder and CEO of Behance, talks about the growth of Behance and the site’s new overhaul and features.


Scott Belsky of Behance



Scott Belsky of Behance on Usability


Scott Belsky, founder and CEO of Behance, talks about the growth of Behance and the site’s new overhaul and features.


Actor Edward Norton Presents DIY Fundraising Site Crowdrise


Award-winning actor Edward Norton presents his latest venture, Crowdrise, a social good website that allows individuals and organizations to fundraise for grass roots activism campaigns.


Ed Norton on Philanthropy


Award-winning actor Edward Norton presents his latest venture, Crowdrise, a social good website that allows individuals and organizations to fundraise for grass roots activism campaigns.


Edward Norton on His Social Media Efforts


Award-winning actor Edward Norton presents his latest venture, Crowdrise, a social good website that allows individuals and organizations to fundraise for grass roots activism campaigns.


Closing Keynote with Alec Ross


Alec Ross talks about how social media is disrupting foreign policy, including some telling examples.


Pete Cashmore Gives Closing Remarks



Mashable Summit Networking Backstage



Edward Norton Interviewing With Mashable



A Packed Times Center



Adam Hirsch, Robert Skinner, Edward Norton



Adam Ostrow, Edward Norton, Brett Petersel



Brett Petersel, Shira Lazar and Pete Cashmore



Networking After the Summit



Matt Silverman, Mashable



Baratunde Thurston and Eric Kuhn



At The Wine and Cheese Hour



Relaxing After a Successful Event



Attendees Gather At the Wine Hour



After-Event Networking



Enjoying the Wine and Conversation



Pete Cashmore at After-Event Networking



Wine and Cheese Hour Networking



DYN Representatives



Motorola Booth



After-Hours Networking



Close of Day



Closing out the Conference



End of the Mashable Media Summit


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Hulu to Stream Univision’s Spanish Programming


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Popular web-based TV streaming service Hulu is expanding its coverage to include Spanish language shows from Univision.

Hulu users can look forward to telenovelas and other programming from the largest Spanish language network in the U.S. Most of the shows will only be available on Hulu Plus, the $8 per month premium subscription service, reports The New York Times. Prime-time programs will mostly be available on Hulu Plus the day after they air.

Tonia O’Connor, the president of distribution sales and marketing for Univision, hopes the limited shows available for free on Hulu will encourage users to upgrade to complete service. “We want to make this an incentive, if you will, to get folks to upgrade to Hulu Plus,” she says.

The Hulu deal is not exclusive. O’Connor revealed Univision is “in discussions with all distributors.”

Univision only gained the right to stream many of its shows in the U.S. in late 2010 from Televisa, the Mexican network that supplies most of its shows.

Unlike Netflix, which arrived in Latin America in September, Hulu has not announced plans to expand into any Spanish speaking countries. The company’s first international expansion was announced last month, into the Japanese market.


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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey: “What Can We Do Better?”



If you have ever wanted to tell Twitter how you feel about its 200 million-member social network, now is the time to do it. Twitter’s Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey tweeted questions Wednesday to attract feedback on the five-year-old service.

A lot has changed since Twitter launched in 2006. To put things into perspective — within the past two months alone — Twitter has:

Earlier this year, Twitter introduced a new version of its homepage with a sleeker design and revamped pitch to potential users; expanded its Local Trends feature to 70 more cities and countries; and updated its search tool to make it easier to find new people to follow.

SEE ALSO: Explore Twitter’s Evolution | A Visual History of Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]

Dorsey’s all ears (or shall we say, Twears?) now. What praise, gripes or suggestions do you have for Twitter’s inventor?

If you tweet him, leave us a link to your tweet in the comments. We’ll put your best responses in the collection already assembled below.

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Social Network Ad Revenues to Hit $10 Billion in 2013 [STUDY]



Global social network ad revenues will hit $5.5 billion this year and then top $10 billion by 2013, according to eMarketer.

The bulk of those revenues are going toward Facebook with Twitter in second place. LinkedIn, meanwhile, will snag 3% of global social network ad revenues, with $140.8 million. The researcher notes that although LinkedIn’s ad revenues have tripled in two years, its growth is slowing. Clark Fredricksen, a rep for eMarketer, says that LinkedIn ought not be too concerned. “LinkedIn’s made it pretty clear that the horse they’re riding is their recruiting business,” says Fredricksen. “But they make a handy chunk from advertising for sure.”

The growth of social network advertising, meanwhile, is clearly coming at the expense of other forms of advertising. This year, 8.8% of U.S. ad dollars and 6.9% of global ad spending is going toward social networking sites. By 2013, those figures will jump to 11.7% and 9.4%, respectively, according to eMarketer.

Those numbers are a slight revision of eMarketer’s January estimate of $5.9 billion in U.S. revenues in 2011. Fredricksen says the reason for the change is “better information” about Facebook’s ad business. That said, Fredricksen says the adjustment is very small and eMarketer still expects growth around 104% for Facebook’s ad business this year.

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Your console is your cable box as Comcast, HBO Go, Verizon FIOS, and more come to the Xbox 360


Microsoft has announced a series of deals which will bring around 40 established media outlets to the Xbox 360 console. The list is long and varied and includes HBO Go, Bravo, Comcast, Crackle, SyFy, and more. The entire list can be seen on Major Nelson's blog, with information on which properties will be available in which regions, and which will require an Xbox Live Gold account. This is an impressive announcement and should help make the Xbox 360 a more powerful force in home entertainment, not just games.

What's unclear is how each media company will offer their content on the system. Some may give up their on-demand services, while others may allow live streaming, and subscription channels will most likely continue to require a standard subscription to the channel via your cable package before you're allowed to watch the content on your console, which would act as your cable box. The real power Microsoft is offering with the 360 is the ability to unify these content providers under one large umbrella.

"Gone are the days of managing a handful of remote controls, trying to remember what movies are available from what service, and hunting back and forth across television inputs," Microsoft explained in a statement released today. "Using voice search with Bing on Xbox, easily look across a variety of branded services and play the programming you want without ever raising a finger. Having trouble finding last night’s episode of “The Office”? It’s now only a voice command away. Just say “Xbox, Bing, ‘The Office,’” and Xbox finds it."

Instead of digging across all the media outlets you have access to looking for a single piece of content, the console itself can do that for you, effectively piling all the different movies and television programs into one big pool that's easily searched. While there are bound to be more details and limitations announced before all this content is added to the system—which is expected to take place before the holidays—Microsoft is making serious moves in the world of entertainment.

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Hulu Could Get New Episodes of Arrested Development


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Fans of the Bluth family, get excited: The new, limited-run series of Arrested Development is definitely going to end up somewhere.

Hulu has joined the rumored bidding war against Netflix and Showtime to get the rights to broadcast the show’s new episodes, according to a new report from Vulture.

The new Arrested Development episodes were announced at The New Yorker Festival. The show will work as a preamble to the upcoming Arrested Development movie, explained Mitch Hurwitz, the show’s creator. Each episode will focus on one character, setting up the context for their storyline in the movie.

Hulu seems like a logical home for the new episodes. Vulture cited sources saying Arrested Development was unlikely to return to Fox — which cancelled the show in 2006 — or its sister networks. Hulu, on the other hand, has racked up a ton of impressions and views on its own catalog of old Arrested Development clips and episodes.

Arrested Development may have been canceled for low-performance but it has created an impressive online afterlife and a cult following. Winning the show would be a huge boon for any network. It could especially help Netflix, a rumored competitor, to reverse its massive loss of subscribers due to Netflix’s price hike.

The new episodes will be shot part-and-parcel with the new film, lowering overall costs like paying for the increasingly all-star cast. 20th Century Fox will co-produce the new episodes. The eventual bidding winner will likely share the rest of the cost.

Right now the informal bidding war is a lot of “he said, she said,” but Hulu’s potential interest certainly bodes well for seeing some Arrested Development sooner rather than later.

Would Hulu be a good home for Arrested Development‘s new episodes? Does it matter where the episodes end up? Let us know in the comments below.

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Microsoft reveals new TV providers including Verizon and Comcast coming to Xbox 360 (video)


Just as the rumors indicated, Microsoft is bringing video from a number of providers beyond the ones it initially announced to the Xbox 360 in its fall update, including big guns like Verizon and Comcast. While Verizon is promising live TV on the Xbox 360, Comcast is only bringing its Xfinity TV video on-demand offerings for subscribers when it launches "in the coming months". Other notables on the list include Lovefilm and BBC TV streaming in the UK, HBO Go, and Syfy. As promised during E3, the services integrated with Xbox will offer support for search across whatever video is available, no matter where, as well as support for Kinect voice and gesture controls. Check after the break for press releases from Microsoft, Comcast, and Verizon detailing what you'll be able to access and where, as well as a video introduction to the new services.

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