Hunter Walk is director of product management at YouTube and is delivering an opening day Keynote at the Broadband World Forum 2012, taking place on the 16 – 18 October 2012 at the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We speak to him on what has made YouTube the global success it has become and how he sees the video platform evolving in the future.

There’s no rest for a busy network. With video now accounting for the lion’s share of mobile data traffic on wireless networks, peak demand has become an almost all-day phenomenon, running from noon to midnight daily.

The Informer was disappointed to learn this week that Facebook is not going to install a panic button on its network. Gripped as he often is by a nameless dread, it would have made his status updates so much easier. In fact, learning that there was to be no panic button, actually made the Informer panic. Right now he has everything more or less under control, though, which is handy because it’s not easy writing weekly wireless round ups when you’re quivering.

YouTube will be available on Apple’s forthcoming iPhone from launch, the Californian company said on Wednesday. The Google-owned user generate content firm also revealed it has been encoding its clips into a new format in an attempt to improve quality and preserve battery life when viewed over wireless devices. YouTube is using the advanced H.264 [...]

The video service YouTube is to arrive on mobile phones for the first time under a deal with Verizon Wireless in the US. The deal will be announced later today and is believed to include an upload service for films shot with video phones. YouTube was bought earlier this month by Google for $1.76bn. The [...]