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The YouTube-UK music deal will focus on high-traffic videos. Andrew Shaw, of the MCPS-PRS Alliance, told the Financial Times that his organization will screen the top 5 to 10 percent of clips. “The long-tail is not worth calculating,” he said. Another
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EMI has struck a licensing deal with Google covering use of its artists’ music on YouTube. The deal, which makes EMI the last of the majors to form an official partnership with YouTube, will not only allow the label to add its audio and video repertoire
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YouTube has reached a revenue-sharing deal with Hearst-Argyle Television whereby local TV stations will be paid when users of the video-sharing site watch their programming. YouTube, a unit of Google, and Hearst-Argyle said in a statement Sunday that the
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Content from the club’s subscription channel Chelsea TV will appear on the new YouTube Chelsea channel, with the clips including “Blue News” (a regular roundup of Chelsea FC headlines), archive footage of Chelsea games and other features like “jok
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Previously known and discovered as "Lisa Nova" on YouTube, Lisa Donovan joins the hilarious cast of MADtv , which airs Saturdays (11:00 PM-Midnight ET/PT) on FOX. Donovan will first be seen in the episode airing Saturday, Feb. 17.
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CBS began moving and filtering comments on some videos in mid-October, shortly after announcing its licensing agreement with YouTube, in order to remove “profane, unconstructive criticism,” and off-topic political vitriol, said Quincy Smith, the presi
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This deal violates the entire ethos of YouTube, not free, not open, exclusive, no community, limited, censorship, etc, etc. Why tarnish the YouTube brand with a deal like this?
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Google is “engaged in a frantic round of negotiations” with traditional media companies, even offering tens of millions of dollars in upfront payments to ward off any potential copyright lawsuits. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has met with top execs from CB
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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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Three of the four major music companies each quietly negotiated to take small stakes in YouTube as part of video- and music-licensing deals they struck shortly before the sale, people involved in the talks said yesterday.
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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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Sequoia Capital Their 30% investment in YouTube for $11.5M has turned into $500M in less than two years – a 43x multiple, or more if the GOOG stock gets a pop over the next 30 day
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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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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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Joe Bereta and Luke Barats (aka BaratsAndBereta) have signed a comedy deal with NBC. The six-figure contract will enable the pair to develop low-cost sitcoms and sketches.
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ouTube has offered other labels an option for an equity stake in the company as part of proposed deals. “If Warner took YouTube up on such an offer, it could create an expensive precedent for every other copyright holder YouTube wants to settle with,”
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Criteo the French company targeting its predictive recommendation engine at movie and video content, is working with YouTube, the popular US-based video publishing site. [via TechCrunch and Altaide blogs]. It is a technical demo that Criteo's management h
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Interessante Gedanken wie Apple durch den Kauf von YouTube die Video iPod verkäufe anheizen könnte. Außerdem hätte Apple eine Top50 Seite, was für Werbung und ein Onlinepräsenz sowie ein soziales Netzwerk
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NBC und YouTube machen einen Deal. YouTube featured Videos und Clips von neuen NBC Shows und dafür kauft NBC Werbung auf YouTube. Ähnliches sollte mit ABC laufen aber die haben Angst vor der unkontrollierbaren Umgebung.
