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Founded in February 2005, acquired by Google Inc. in 2006, YouTube is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. People can see first-hand accounts of current events, find videos about their hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky and unusual. As more people capture special moments on video, YouTube is empowering them to become the broadcasters of tomorrow.
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NAICS Code Other Motion Picture and Video Industries: 512199
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@ Vevo Launch: Google's Schmidt: The Music Industry Will Finally Make Money Selling Music Online
PaidContent
- 2009-12-09
[In progress] The Vevo launch party has been going on for an hour and executives and stars are ready to take the stage. I spoke briefly with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt, who told me that Vevo, which is a joint venture between Google’s YouTube and the major...
YouTube Begins UK Long-Form TV VOD: C4 Signed, May Get ITV
PaidContent
- 2009-10-15
YouTube has secured its first long-form on-demand UK TV content, doing a deal that sees Channel 4 add the same shows to the service that are already carried on the broadcaster’s own 4oD service.Nearly 3,000 hours of shows - including Hollyoaks, Skins and Peep Show - will be available...
YouTube officially inks VoD deal with Channel 4
Strategy Eye
- 2009-10-14
YouTube and Channel 4 are entering a three-year partnership to bring full-length TV shows from Channel 4’s video-on-demand VoD service to the Google-owned video network. Channel 4 will sell advertising on the YouTube pages that feature its content, as well as on some other YouTube pages. It will hand...
Tweet sparks rumours of Google plans to buy Brightcove
Strategy Eye
- 2009-09-16
Rumours that Google is preparing to buy Brightcove erupted this week following a tweet from digital media blogger Mark Glaser saying the search giant was considering forking out up to USD700m for the white-label video streaming company. Acquiring Brightcove would make Google’s YouTube the dominant commercial web...
Vevo in talks to bring indie labels on board
Strategy Eye
- 2009-06-08
Vevo, the music video joint venture between Universal and YouTube, is in talks with a consortium of independent records labels, A2IM, to bring additional music content to the site. A deal would be a crucial boost to the Vevo project, which is trying to establish itself as a key...
YouTube in talks over full-length UK shows – Rumour
Strategy Eye
- 2009-05-20
YouTube is reportedly holding talks with ITV, Channel 4 and Sony Pictures about hosting full-length content in the UK. The move is the latest effort by the Google-owned site to beef up its premium content. It also signals heightening competition in the UK video on-demand VoD market, with rival...
Media Roundup: Ad Spending Worst Since Depression, Hollywood Ends Year on High Note, and More
BNET
- 2008-12-30
Media Roundup: Ad spending worst since Depression, Hollywood ends year on high note, Music labels may choose Hulu over YouTube, Flight of the Conchords season premiere gets over 250,000 online views and Trouble for the PlayStation 3 by Sean Blanda
Tech Roundup: YouTube Revenue, Google and Start-Ups, eBay in Cloud, More
BNET
- 2008-10-16
What VCs and entrepreneurs really want are at opposite ends of the funding earth, eBay is considering offernig cloud data warehousing and business intelligence, consumer electronics take a big hit, Gartner's top ten list of strategic technologies looks familiar, and YouTube's double secret revenue plan is so secret that even...
Google's Response to Viacom: Don't Hamper the Internet
BNET
- 2008-05-27
Google has filed its response to Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit over copyright infringement. The gist: Viacom’s lawsuit hampers the Internet and challenges the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA. Google’s response Techmemeâ€"you’re forgiven if you are shocked that Viacom and Google haven’t settled yetâ€"denies a...
NBC Names Its YouTube Competitor
- 2007-08-31
NBC Inc. and News Corp. announced yesterday that they are calling their new video download site Hulu. The LA Times reports that "the site will start in a private testing format in October" and is designed "to compete with Web-based video sites such as Google Inc.'s YouTube. The site will...
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