YouTube to Feature Mobile Downloads in '07?

[Janak Parekh]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=112915' target='_blank'>http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=112915</a><br /><br /></div><i>"'Soon, you'll be able to take your YouTube with you. Within the next year YouTube hopes to 'have something on a mobile device,' said Chad Hurley, addressing advertising executives at today's OgivlyOne Digital Media Summit. 'It's a huge market and with our video lengths, it's a natural.' Mr. Hurley didn't specify how the company would monetize it. 'It would be great to make the ad model work on a mobile device,' he said. 'I haven't seen that work.'"</i><br /><br />I know our readers have clamored for this in the past, and with the explosion of mobile data and smart phones, it seems like a natural fit. Alas, the article lacks more details, presumably so because YouTube hasn't figured out how they're going to do it as of yet.

[smilbandit]

try tinytube.net. I setup a videos option on wampad.com that after you enter in a query you can hit either srobbins.com google video search or tinytube.net.

[Menneisyys]

I know our readers have clamored for this in the past, and with the explosion of mobile data and smart phones, it seems like a natural fit. Alas, the article lacks more details, presumably so because YouTube hasn't figured out how they're going to do it as of yet.

As soon as I have some time, I'll publish the way of easy, PDA-only (!) web-converting of existing YouTube videos if I do manage to "hack" the direct access off their website; see http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=49885