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This just in ... EchoStar (NSDQ: DISH) is acquiring Sling Media in a cash-and-options transaction valued at approximately $380 million. The deal announced late Monday evening, is subject to the usual closing conditions; it is expected to close in the four
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But they sure are in the spotlight now: a source with knowledge of the deal indicates that the $1 billion News Corp./NBC online video joint venture Hulu has acquired the company and is using its platform for the basis of the upcoming Hulu service.
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Joost has reportedly acquired OnTheToob, which is a programming guide keeping users up to date on Joost’s Internet television shows. Created by a Joost beta user, there are pre-determined RSS feeds as well as customized channels and RSS feeds for Joost
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MY SCOOP => http://www.gugelproductions.de/blog/2007/prosiebensat1-uebernimmt-myvideo-fuer-weitere-19-millionen-euro.html not Blognations never mind ;)
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DivX (Nadsdaq: DIVX), the video codec firm, has bought Veatros, a Kansas-based startup spun out of University of Kansas. Veatros’s technology is designed to conduct real-time digital video processing and will be used by DivX primarily for producing enha
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Pickle enables you to easily organize and share ALL your media (photos and videos) from ALL your devices (camera and mobile phone), but with a revolutionary twist. In addition to sharing on Pickle, you can post individual items or entire channels of conte
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Streaming Media - Live and Video On Demand, Digital Rights Management, Content Management, Customer Relationship Management, Billing Services, Syndication Services, Custom Developments and Commercial consultancy.
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We’re told that Google may actually be doing more than 1 acquisition per week at the moment, many of them small. We’re only able to track those that have been announced. So, stats are only valid provided that unannounced acquisitions have stayed at
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DoubleClick's products and technology are complementary to our search and and content-based text advertising business, and give us new opportunities to improve online advertising for consumers, advertisers and publishers.Historically, we've not allowed th
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t may provide a way for Google to easily and legally amass the world's biggest database of video, helping it figure out better ways to search that kind of material. Google confirmed Tuesday it would begin collecting that content as part of the test of
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The question this raises for me is — why can’t big media companies innovate like this? It’s not a matter of putting huge amounts of capital at risk, which is traditionally the province of venture-backed startups. This is extremely low cost! And it
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Not on anyone’s blockbuster list but CBS Interactive made official today its acquisition of fledgling financial news site and daily web show Wallstrip. No terms disclosed.
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Last-fm co-founder Martin Stiksel confirmed the deal to BBC News: “This move will really support us to get every track ever recorded and every music video ever made onto Last.fm. With a strong partner like CBS, this is now within our reach. They want to
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced today that it has acquired Red Swoosh, Inc. in an all-stock merger transaction. The acquisition of Red Swoosh is valued at approximately $15 million, net of cash acquired.
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YouTube, one of the most successful exits of the Web 2.0 era, needs little introduction. YouTube’s single biggest contribution is that it brought into the mainstream the concept of sharing videos online. YouTube shot into limelight when Google acquired
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Gemstar-TV Guide International has done some more small online acquisitions, after buying Jumptheshark.com last year. It has bought several TV-focused site: TVShowsOnDVD.com, TV-now.com, and FansofRealityTV.com, as well as some assets of TV listings start
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Jumpcut was clearly acquired for its team, technology and its product, rather than for traffic, revenue or any other component of its business. Big internet companies, especially Yahoo!, Google and Fox, have made a number of similar acquisition in the pa
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The company, in an effort to bring up money for this, has sold itself to video search and aggregation site GoFish, for about $30 million in stock (GoFish is traded on OTC board). UMG sued video sharing sites Grouper and Bolt.com for allowing users to swa
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Chad Hurley received 694,087 Google shares and another 41,232 shares in a trust. Based on Google’ market price of $470.01, that values Hurley’s stake at $345.6 million. -- Co-founder Steve Chen received 625,366 Google shares and another 68,721 in a t
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The shares of our Class A common stock that may be offered by each selling stockholder using this prospectus represent shares of our Class A common stock that we issued to such selling stockholder in connection with our acquisition of YouTube, Inc. We w
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HandHeld Entertainment™ (NASDAQ: ZVUE, ZVUEW) today announced it has acquired Putfile.com™, a leading free digital media service featuring user-generated content for approximately $7.1 million ($1.08 million in cash and approximat
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Hello to everyone in the vlogosphere. First of all, thank you Peter and Devlon (and the many others involved) for creating such a great tool for videobloggers. Your hard work and support for Mefeedia shows. As far as plans for Mefeedia, i was actually loo
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Eigentlich ist Firmenbewertung ja ganz einfach: Man berechnet die zukünftigen Cash Flows, diskoniert sie mit einem angemessenen Renditesatz ab und kriegt ganz einfach die faire Bewertung zum heutigen Zeitpunkt (die theoretischen Details spare ich mir hie
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Grouper developed video indexing and search optimization tools that gave a big boost to traffic in the time before every major internet portal, especially Yahoo!, had its own video area.
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For a company like Yahoo, social networking is not a market that they should buy into. Yes, Murdoch needed to, being a traditional media company with no real Internet competency. Even Google’s acquisition of YouTube made sense from the perspective of co
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In den frühen Morgenstunden des Donnerstags bekamen die beiden Beteiligungsgesellschaften Permira und KKR den Zuschlag. Pro Sieben Sat. 1 hat das inzwischen bestätigt.Zumindest für Permira ist der deutsche Medienmarkt vertrautes Terrain. Der Finanzinve
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Our sources, some close to Metacafe, say that the negotiations are continuing and Yahoo is one of the likely suitors. Nothing has been finalized as yet, though the tone of our sources regarding the closure of a deal is much more solid today than over the
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- Expensive is relative, but not overpaying is a major criteria. - People matter in all deals, so a good “acq-hire” is sometimes worth more than a deal that is accretive to earnings. - Take out a competition? Always good! - Buy low, sell high? We’re
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12.5 percent of the equity issued and issuable is subject to escrow for one year to secure certain indemnification obligations. Based on the $1.5 billion amount, that should be about $187.5 million.
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Hat sich Google mit YouTube ver-kauft? Schon jetzt ist klar, dass es dort nicht weitergehen kann wie bisher. Der Erfolg der Videoseite fordert Opfer. Regeln für die Veröffentlichung werden nötig - doch so etwas hat schon anderen den Spaß und das Gesch
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if these grassroots efforts are generating value (and in fact, wealth) and their creative power is being tapped by major corporations, at what point should they start receiving a share of revenue for their work?
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Armed with this kitty of money Youtube approached the media companies with an open checkbook to buy peace. The media companies smelled a transaction when Youtube radically changed their initial 'revenue sharing' offer to one laden with cash.
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Now that AOL has shed its Internet access businesses in Europe, it is looking to buy popular video and IPTV "properties" in Europe to expand the reach of its online advertising business, according to an exclusive interview AOL's chief Jonathan Miller gave
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But the next deal, probably for Facebook, is going to come in at a higher cost -- probably at an unsustainable cost. There are just to many people desperate not to miss the social networking train before it leaves the station.
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The curious thing about YouTube is that the people who ought to be paid (individual content creators) aren't actually campaigning for it, while corporate providers are threatening legal action over clips pirated on YouTube - even though normally they are
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Level 3 Communications, continuing with its strategy of gobbling up smaller/regional rivals says it is buying Broadwing Communications for about $1.4 billion in stock and cash.
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Google kann YouTube vollkommen integrieren - beispielswiese in ihre Suchergebnisse.Sequoia ist nach meiner Meinung der einzig wahre Gewinner. Sie haben früh erkannt, dass das heutige Top Thema "Videos im Internet" ist und verdienen heute doppelt: bei Goo
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Nope, we don't need your stinkin' technology, Google is paying $1.65 billion (with a "b") or 1.3% of Google's current value, for a media property. Plain and simple. But what does that even mean?
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Interestingly, today "social" features like YouTube's ratings and opinions have been more helpful in video search than algorithmic approaches like Google's, which rely on metatags. if Google doesn't make sure the media comapnies make money from all of the
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YouTube is a hopelessly inefficient way for consumers to steal copyrighted video content off the web. It's well suited to the negligible-attention-span clips that its users post up there, to music videos and to teasers and excerpts from longer (copyrighte
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but the truth is that, across 20 major deals, those 3 stand out as the exception and not the rule. It appears that, on average, deals are generally below $50 million and, in most cases, lower than $10 million.
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Ahh, so that’s what Google is getting with its $1.6 billion. It is building a moat around its advertising sales force and saying “you can’t get your hands on our advertisers.”
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The new generation doesn’t sit down to watch prime time tv together. It’s on YouTube, which provides the asynchronicity of experience, personaliz-ability of tags, uploading, favorites lists, channels, and a play duration much better suited to consumpt
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Google has to amplify (and protect) it's key revenue stream - ppc. Video ppc is a higher value domain, and a hugely untapped one. Google wants assets at the edges of the value chain which can exert market power against 1.0 publishers - just like it's doin
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If no one is going to sue anyone for copyright infringement anymore, maybe you could upload stuff you dont have the rights to and get paid by generous people who want to transfer some dollars via PayPal to you.
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Google (or whomever) should resist falling for the chimera of traffic stats and millions of videos watched. These stats from Hitwise show that while things are not going as well for Google Video, they are not that bad either if they decided to work alone
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a Google-owned YouTube would suck. Google doesn’t get community in the slightest. Google Video’s social filters are terrible. What’s more, they’ll insist on tying YouTube to Google accounts.
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YouTube is winning the hearts of the audience because video search simply doesn’t work. You have to instead rely on the opinions, ratings, and playlist compilations of others to discover good video.
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Because it is a video editor, Jumpcut can also a remix mainstream media microchunks with consumer-generated clips. In fact, Jumpcut powers the video-editing features of Fox Atomic's video blender, which runs video-making contests for MySpace.
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Grouper’s recent sale to Sony for $65 million suggests a YouTube valuation of around $2 billion when you look at relative traffic. YouTube may get their $1.5 billion in the near future. But first they’ll have to find a buyer with a strong stomach for
