News & Reviews:   YouTube Malaysia

Today, Maxis 4G and YouTube Malaysia have premiered Maxis Rojak 360 event in TGV Cinema @ One Utama. Maxis Rojak 360 is Malaysia's first ever 360-degrees film series by five homegrown award-winning storytellers, using YouTube's 360-degrees immersive video-on-mobile platform, each film invites the audience to move their phones around in all directions in order to "See Malaysia From All Angles".

Today, YouTube Malaysia has announced their collaboration with both Maxis and Sunway University to kick off the YouTube Broadcast Box roadshow. What's that? Well, the roadshow is designed to equip the next generations of Malaysian creators with the necessary knowledge to get a running start on YouTube, the Broadcast Box is a specially made mobile studio equipped with cameras, a green screen, and editing equipment tuned to help new creators shoot and upload videos on YouTube.

Google Malaysia and TNS Research recently got together to reveal the answer to the question, "Who watches YouTube in Malaysia?". Surprisingly enough, research reveals that it isn't just all our kids watching chocolate surprise egg videos. Instead, the answer turns out to be the millenials of Malaysia and many of our senior citizens (about half to be exact). In fact this number is set to grow as high speed mobile Internet and mobile devices become more accessible (cheaper).