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YouTube on your mobile
'It's going to be huge'...

By Reuters

Published: Thursday 02 November 2006

YouTube hopes to launch a service for wireless devices within a year.

Chad Hurley, chief executive and co-founder of the popular online video-sharing site, told an advertising conference that offering video services on mobile phones was a key opportunity for the company.

Hurley said: "Within the next year we hope to have something on a mobile device. It's going to be a huge market, especially for the video mindset we're dealing with. It's a natural transition."

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Hurley was speaking at the OgilvyOne Digital Summit in New York in one of his first public engagements since the announcement last month that internet search leader Google is to buy YouTube for $1.65bn. In May, YouTube launched its YouTube To Go service to enable users to upload clips to the website directly from their mobile phones.

Already many of the clips seen on YouTube are captured by users with their mobile phones. A new mobile service could enable users to share videos with others in the YouTube community directly via their phones.