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• Warner Music Hands Over Video Ad Sales To Outrigger

  PaidContent - 2009-10-08

  Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) has a vision for how it’s going to make money with digital content this time around—and it includes a few key tech platforms and sales partners. On the sales end in the U.S., the company is giving the reins to Outrigger Media, a New...

  Tags: Video Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Video, Warner Music Group Corp., WMG, Outrigger Media, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Corporate Communications, Sales, Marketing, Entertainment, Music, Companies, Google, YouTube, Tameka Kee

• Report: Warner, YouTube Reach A Deal?With Talks For Vevo, Too

  PaidContent - 2009-09-25

  Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) and YouTube have finally negotiated a deal that will bring music videos from artists like Madonna and U2 back to the video site, AdAge is reporting. Warner pulled all of its artists clips from YouTube in December, after the two companies could not agree...

  Tags: Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Warner Music Group Corp., Music Video, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Sales Force Management, Sales, Marketing, Entertainment, Music, Social Media, Video, Companies, Google, YouTube, Tameka Kee

• YouTube/PRS Details: Advance Payment, Three-Year Deal, Figures Secret

  PaidContent - 2009-09-03

  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is putting up another wadge of advance cash for the revised terms of its renewed license for YouTube to use music in the UK, an agreement that ends an at times acrimonious dispute see our earlier report.“The deal goes back to January. It runs to June...

  Tags: Payment, YouTube Inc., PRS, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Entertainment, Music, Companies, Google, YouTube, Robert Andrews

• YouTube Resolves UK Music Royalties Dispute, Will Start Paying Again

  PaidContent - 2009-09-02

  Eight months after letting its PRS For Music license expire in protest at “ridiculous” rates, YouTube has agreed new terms with the UK music royalty collector, meaning the reintroduction of thousands of official music videos.New terms have not yet been disclosed but will be backdated to January, when YouTube’s...

  Tags: YouTube Inc., Video, PRS, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Entertainment, Music, Companies, Google, YouTube, Robert Andrews

• Vevo seeks funding at USD300m valuation

  Strategy Eye - 2009-08-31

  Music video service Vevo is seeking funding at a USD300m valuation to support its launch later this year. Sony, Universal and YouTube are behind the project and seek to capitalise on the popularity of music videos, with YouTube providing the infrastructure and network for the joint venture. Vevo will show music videos from Universal...

  Tags: Sony Corp., Valuation, YouTube Inc., Music, Vevo, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sony Music, Universal Music Group, YouTube, Jasper Jackson

• Music Video JV Site Vevo Raising Money At $300 Million Valuation

  PaidContent - 2009-08-31

  Vevo, the Hulu-like site for music videos which for now is a JV between Universal Music, Sony Music and YouTube, is out raising money at a $300 million valuation, we have learned from multiple sources. The venture’s CEO Rio Caraeff has been criss crossing the country and globe pitching...

  Tags: Venture, Valuation, YouTube Inc., Video, Music, Vevo, Hulu, Corporate Communications, Investment, Marketing, Finance, Entertainment, Rafat Ali

• Broadband Content Bits: Universal/Meebo; Crackle's New Shows; YouTube Live Stats; XFire's JV with H3

  Content Next - 2008-11-25

  -- Universal seeds Meebo with content: Social communications company Meebo will feature videos from Universal Music Group artists like The Killers and Kanye West on its site and in its MediaBar ad platform. As part of the promotion, UMG will embed Meebo's IM and chat rooms into a number...

  Tags: Xfire, Broadband, YouTube Inc., Cable Network, Series, Cable, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Companies, Google, YouTube, Sony, Viacom, MTVN, Entertainment, Gaming, Music, Social Media, Community, Video Sharing, Tameka Kee, Akamai Technologies Inc., VIA Technologies Inc., Viacom Inc.

• YouTube to sell games and music in Europe

  Strategy Eye - 2008-11-21

  YouTube will start selling games and music in Europe "soon", Google's director of video partnerships in EMEA, Patrick Walker, tells StrategyEye. YouTube introduced 'click-to-buy' links below music and games clips in the US last month, in partnership with EMI, Universal and Electronic Arts, and is now working to expand...

  Tags: Advertisement, Partnership, YouTube Inc., Music, Business Structures, Corporate Communications, Games, Finance, Marketing, Personal Technology, EMI Music Publishing, Google, Universal Music Group, YouTube, Francesco Canepa

• Periscope

  - 2006-10-23

  Iraq: Playing the Numbers Game Iraqi doctors who helped compile the latest survey on civilian fatalities since 2003 came close to becoming statistics themselves. The survey, conducted jointly by Johns Hopkins, MIT and Baghdad's Al Mustansiriya University, said 600,000 Iraqis have died violently since just before the...

  Tags: fatality, Google Inc., MARKETING, music, Newsweek, survey, video, YouTube Inc.

• Universal Music Group and YouTube Forge Strategic Partnership

  - 2006-10-09

  YouTube, Inc., a consumer media company, which enables people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, and Universal Music Group UMG, the world's leading music company, today announced an agreement offering YouTube and its users access to thousands of videos on YouTube from UMG's extensive roster of...

  Tags: music, Universal Music Group, YouTube Inc.