YouTube users have watched over 9,000 *years* of video (Marketing Vox)

Move around, couch potatos - ESPN to broadcast full college football games via it’s mobile phones (Washington Post)

The Stickest Brands on the web (Clickz)

According to the Wired Blog, there’s a new app on the scene that lets you rip YouTube videos to play on your iPod, iTunes or PSP. The program, called TubeSock, is sadly, only available for Macs right now, but the possibilities of turning YouTube videos (including live music performances, portions of documentaries available on YouTube, and video series) are endless. Wonder when the copyright stuff will kick in on this one?

Flickr offers geotagging (TechCrunch)

What’s the deal with those Forbes.com numbers? (New York Times)

Microsoft: Create mobile social networks with Zune (CNET via I Want Media)

MarketingVox highlighted a recent study by Scarborough Research of the top 25 newspaper markets that indicated the “web only” readership to be as high as 15%. Of these, predictably, were high levels of the 18-34 year old market. The study also demonstrated that papers with a “national” scale (NYT, WSJ, etc) did better than other regional markets - unless those regional markets focus very hard on integrating their content. It makes sense, as the regional papers highlighted for being well trafficked tended to have more content online- like the Tampa Tribune. Ideally, it would be great to see other local markets (I’m not naming names) offer more in depth online content as well.

More Wii info on the way? (CNET)

YOuTube sells space on the front page (Washington Post)

ZDnet reports that Sony has purchased Grouper - a video sharing site in the YouTube vein.  With Sony’s different markets - both the content creators (cameras) and the content itself (movies) it will be interesting to watch how the company will actually use (and hopefully grow) Grouper.

AOL has annouced that they are starting a movie-download service, with a bunch of the major studios. While they aren’t the first ones out of the gate, they definately do (as GigaOM points out) have more deals with more studios than other services.

YouTube adds Brand Channels (AdJab)

Friendster: On the Rebound (Business Week)

Google to take over TV, World (ZDNet)

Micro Persuasion has a rundown on an article in that latest issue of Wired detailing the problem of Spam Blogs (Splogs). We’ve all done a search in Technorati or Google Blog Search, only to click through a few of the results and realize we’ve been hit with a spam blog. The Wired article highlights several key pieces of information about splogs - including that Blooger hosts over 100,000 spam blogs alone. MP has some suggestions for getting rid of splogs, particularly where it hurts - the advertising networks, essentially calling for ad networks to require that publishers prove they are legit before they can join. Can we all say “Yes!” - there’s nothing I can imagine more futile than doing a buy via Adwords, etc, only to get your ads on a splog.

Yet another network gets into the game of streaming their content - with a local twist. Marketing Vox is reporting that 9 local Fox stations will be streaming primetime content on their sites via a proprietary media player. This is a different kind of move - but also one that might sidestep the issue local network affiliates have regarding their viewers watching streaming shows on main network sites. This will be an interesting case study to watch.

Micro Persuasion is reporting that the Washington Post has kicked off a new Blog advertising network, called the Sponsored Blogroll. I really like how well the Post is integrating blogs and other UGM into the online component of their paper. Kudos, gang.

iPodNN is reporting that LionsGate has confirmed their participation in offering movies for download via iTunes toward the end of this year. While Apple isn’t saying anything, I wonder if this will happen in conjunction with the oft-fabled full screen video iPod.

CBS to simulcast evening news w/Couric online (Yahoo! News)

Will PS3 lead the next-gen console tech? (Joystiq)