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Is Content Still King in the Digital Age?
Julia Boorstin submits: Yesterday morning at the Fortune Brainstorm conference Viacom VIA CEO Philippe Dauman and Verizon VZ CEO Ivan Seidenberg took the stage to be interviewed by Fortune Magazine Managing Editor Andy Serwer. Here we have content with an old media giant trying to compete in this digital...
YouTube inks video deal with Lionsgate
YouTube is partnering with Lionsgate to host clips from the studio's movie catalogue, in a major shake up in the relations between YouTube and film producers. Under the deal, videos will be accompanied with ads and the firms will share revenues. While YouTube has agreements with a number of...
Why Online Video Business Is a Joke
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: I’ve become reluctant to post much on online video, because invariably if I am not talking about a partner or competitor (of WatchMojo.com’s), it seems as if I am talking to a partner or competitor. Truth is I never am, but it’s hard for the post...
Paramount Pictures Is Feeling the Credit Crunch
Julia Boorstin submits: The credit crunch is taking its toll on Hollywood. Deutsche Bank's DB $450 million film financing deal with Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom VIA is falling through. The financing deal was meant to pay for up to 30 films, with Deutsche Bank providing a 25...
Showtime signs film deal with the Weinstein Company
US pay-TV network Showtime has signed an exclusive seven-year deal with independent film distributor the Weinstein Company, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The deal, which is due to start in 2009, will give CBS-owned Showtime the rights to screen 95 films. The move comes after Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM said...
Where Is the Online Video Advertising Revenue Going?
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: According to eMarketer, the size of online advertising revenue is $1.35B in 2008. Since launching WatchMojo.com in 2006, I’ve had some questions about that figure… so here goes: by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
Lawyers in YouTube Lawsuit Reach User Privacy Deal
By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Defendants and plaintiffs in two related copyright infringement lawsuits against YouTube have reached a deal to protect the privacy of millions of YouTube watchers during evidence discovery, a spokesman for Google Inc GOOG said...
The Issue of Trust is with Google, Not Viacom
Michael Arrington submits: Earlier this month Louis L. Stanton, the senior judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, ordered Google to hand over YouTube user log data to Viacom VIA to help Viacom determine damages in their ongoing billion dollar litigation with...
Investing in Dividend Paying Companies
Devin Hobbes submits: Suppose 20 years ago, in the middle of the Savings and Loan Crisis, you decided to invest in a basket of dividend paying companies to hold for the long term. Not wanting to do too much research but still interested in buying quality companies, you decided to...
Google's Team Opens Up at Sun Valley Conference
Julia Boorstin submits: Google GOOG CEO Eric Schmidt, along with co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin who joined towards the end sat down to talk to journalists at the Allen and Co. conference in Sun Valley for an hour and fifteen minute no-holds barred question and answer session. (This...
Viacom's Redstone in Talks to Buy Out Daughter
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sumner Redstone is negotiating to buy out his daughter Shari's equity interest in Viacom Inc VIAb and CBS Corp CBS, but the two sides have not reached a deal, his spokesperson said on Thursday. The spokesperson also denied a...
YouTube’s 4% Problem Is Really Part of The Solution
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Everyone is freaking out over the fact that YouTube GOOG is trying to monetize but 4% of its massive inventory. Truth is, I thought that number was lower. But whatever the number, it’s a good thing. by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
Media Stocks: Beaten Down, Almost Buyable
R. Scott Raynovich submits: Media stocks have been crushed this year, and Wall Street has been piling on. On Monday, Lehman Brothers analyst Anthony DiClemente issued a research note downgrading the entire industry see here, pointing to the potential long-term adverse effects of digital distribution. Is it all over for...
Judge Demands That YouTube Coughs Up IPs
Mathew Ingram submits: In the long-running Viacom VIA vs. YouTube case — one that falls into the “desperately trying not to adapt” category — a judge has ruled that the Google GOOG owned video site has to turn over a record of every user who has ever watched a...
Economy Casts Pall on Sun Valley Media Fest
By Kenneth Li NEW YORK (Reuters) - The deteriorating U.S. economy and slumping stock prices will frame discussions among top media and technology executives at the 26th annual Allen & Co confab in Sun Valley, Idaho, next week. Talk of deals, investment picks...
Time Warner's Due for a Comeback - Barron's
Barron's author Dimitra Defotis calls Time Warner TWX stunningly cheap. Here's why: New CEO Jeffrey Bewkes is likely to separate, spin off, or sell the subscription arm of AOL - its weakest link - which will expose the strength of its digital ad platform, recently bolstered by AOL's...
Google Should Deliver Its YouTube Data to Viacom in Paper Form
Erick Schonfeld submits: The recent court order directing Google GOOG to hand over data to Viacom VIA about every YouTube video ever watched strikes many people as an absurd overreach of the law into the privacy of anyone who has ever used YouTube (i.e., almost everyone on the Internet)....
YouTube Court Order Fans Privacy Fears
By Kenneth Li and Eric Auchard NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters UK) - A U.S. judge's order to Google GOOG to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom VIAb sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy....
What Does Google Not Have to Hand Over? Ad Records
In the all the furor about Google handing over 12 terabytes of user data from YouTube to Viacom, ClickZ noted a small win for the search giant: they don't have to turn over ad data. From the ClickZ article: While Viacom also asked for records involving advertising transactions for...
Judge Protects YouTube?s Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves
Michael Arrington submits: The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom. If the data is actually released, the consequences could be far more serious than the 2006 AOL Search debacle....
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- CEO: Mr. Philippe P. Dauman
Viacom is a worldwide entertainment content company, which operated its business through two reportable operating segments as of Dec 31 2007. Co.'s Media Networks segment consists of the businesses of MTV Networks (MTV) and the businesses of BET Networks (BET). Through MTV and BET, Co.'s media networks businesses own and operate program services, websites and other digital media services in the U.S. and abroad. Co.'s Filmed Entertainment segment produces, finances and distributes motion pictures under the Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies brands.
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Board of Directors
Mr. Sumner M. Redstone
Chairman
Mr. Frederic V. Salerno
Mr. William Schwartz
Ms. Shari Redstone
Non-Executive Vice Chairman
Mr. George S. Abrams
Mr. Philippe P. Dauman
Mr. Thomas E. Dooley
Mr. Alan C. Greenberg
Mr. Robert K. Kraft
Ms. Blythe J. McGarvie
Mr. Charles E. Pillips Jr.
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