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• U2 Live Concert Is Window Into YouTube Revenue Stream

  BNET - 2009-10-27

  U2 and YouTube finally leveraged the synergy of their names on Sunday night in the name of live-streaming, broadcasting the band's show at the Rose Bowl over YouTube. One of the bigger events in YouTube history â€" by some reports 2.5 million watched it live, and another almost 400,000 have...

  Tags: Revenue, Window, YouTube Inc., U2, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Catharine P. Taylor

• Tech Law: YouTube Smoking Gun, Gamers Sue Sony, More

  BNET - 2009-10-15

  Viacom finds YouTube smoking gun;games sue Sony over firmware upgrade; EU and Microsoft to agree on browser approach; the DOJ to investigate IBM mainframe sales; and media outlets and Apple are targeted in a patent suit. by Erik Sherman

  Tags: Sony Corp., YouTube Inc., Mainframes, Sales Strategy, Games, Servers, Hardware, Sales, Personal Technology, Erik Sherman

• 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...

  Tags: Advertisement, YouTube Inc., U.K., C4, Hulu, Video On Demand (VoD), TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, Channel 4, Google, YouTube, ITV, Robert Andrews

• 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...

  Tags: VoD, YouTube Inc., Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Channel 4, YouTube, Jasper Jackson, Google Inc.

• 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...

  Tags: Google Inc., On2 Technologies, YouTube Inc., Brightcove, Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Site Development, Corporate Law, Web Technology, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Investment, Finance, Internet, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Jasper Jackson

• Time Warner Will Put Clips On YouTube

  PaidContent - 2009-08-19

  YouTube’s plans to up the amount of premium content on its site got a big boost Wednesday, as Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) agreed to put content from a wide range of clips from its TV shows and movies on the video site. Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) reached a similar...

  Tags: Time Warner Inc., Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Corporate Communications, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Joseph Tartakoff

• 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...

  Tags: Project, Sony Corp., Consortium, Board, YouTube Inc., Vevo, A2IM, Corporate Governance, Digital Media, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Universal Music Group, YouTube, George Mitton

• 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...

  Tags: YouTube Inc., U.K., Video On Demand (VoD), TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Channel 4, Sony Pictures Entertainment, ITV, YouTube, Hulu, Andrew McDonald, Google Inc., Sony Corp.

• Is Hulu Overtaking YouTube?

  BNET - 2009-05-01

  Hulu is getting new content and cash from Disney, giving it an impressive line-up of broadcast TV content for its online video site. This announcement comes barely a week after Google's YouTube video site announced partnership deals with a slew of movie and television studios, including Lion's Gate and Starz....

  Tags: Fox Interactive Media, Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Video, Hulu, Corporate Communications, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Michael Hickins

• YouTube Racing Hulu For Workable Ad Model

  BNET - 2009-04-17

  Now that YouTube has reached an agreement with several TV producers and movie studios, including Sony, CBS, MGM, Lionsgate, Starz, and the BBC, to deliver their content on a premium channel, it can get started on the really big challenge: turning Web programming into a viable business. ...

  Tags: Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Programming, Hulu, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Michael Hickins