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- YouTube's Content Head Jordan Hoffner Leaving To Join Ben Silverman's New Venture
- Jordan Hoffner, the head of content partnerships for YouTube, is leaving the company, and joining Ben Silverman’s new content venture at IAC (NSDQ: IACI), we have learned. The move from YoutTube was announced internally today. This is the second senior digital exec to join Silverman’s venture, after we first...
- External links 2009-11-03
- YouTube/PRS Details: Advance Payment, Three-Year Deal, Figures Secret
- 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...
- External links 2009-09-03
- Five and Sony to promote on-demand service
- UK broadcaster Five is teaming up with Sony to provide a video-on-demand service via Sony's Bravia TV sets. Five will be the first UK broadcaster to provide content for Sony's planned Bravia internet video service. Five's strategy director Charles Constable says: "It's vital for broadcasters and other industry stakeholders...
- Articles 2009-09-02
- YouTube Resolves UK Music Royalties Dispute, Will Start Paying Again
- 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...
- External links 2009-09-02
- YouTube Inches Closer To Renting Movies But Nothing Imminent
- YouTube’s move into content that people might pay for—instead of click on enough to make advertisers happy—is inching toward the next step: joining the online rental movies crowd. The Wall Street Journal is reporting, and paidContent has confirmed, that discussions are underway with Lionsgate, Warner Bros. and Sony (NYSE:...
- External links 2009-09-02
- Vevo seeks funding at USD300m valuation
- 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...
- Articles 2009-08-31
- YouTube to show Time Warner clips
- YouTube is set to show clips from channels such as CNN, the Cartoon Network and TNT after striking a deal with Time Warner, which will sell ad space alongside the clips and share the revenue with Google. ?Working with YouTube, we expect to improve our ability to monetize...
- Articles 2009-08-20
- YouTube Tests New Recommendation Systems To Get Vistors To Watch More Clips
- Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues to strike deals to up the amount of professional and long-form content on YouTube, but it’s simultaneously pursuing a more straightforward strategy in order to get more money from the site: It’s trying to get YouTube visitors to watch more of the content that’s already...
- External links 2009-08-20
- YouTube's Hurley Bankrolling US F1; Plans Video Content, Social Media
- His video site may not yet be as profitable as hoped, but YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley’s a wealthy young man in need of an outlet. He has becoming the “primary investor” for US F1, the motorsports team debuting in next year’s season.Hurley, who recently met Formula One...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Shareholders Sue To Stop Google's Purchase Of On2
- Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is offering a 57 percent premium to purchase video firm On2 Technologies—but that's not enough to satisfy a cadre of On2 shareholders, who are suing to block the deal. Investors say that there's "no evidence that On2's directors shopped the company in order to obtain the...
- External links 2009-08-13
- Google buys video compression firm On2
- Google is acquiring On2 Technologies, a firm that specialises in video-compression technology, in an all-stock deal worth USD106.5m. The agreement, which is due to close in Q4, is likely to give support to YouTube and Google's Android platform, easing bandwidth costs and boosting video playback performance. ...
- Articles 2009-08-04
- Music videos back on UK YouTube
- YouTube has come to an agreement with royalty collectors PRS for Music which will allow UK users to watch official music videos on the Google-owned network for the first time since they were removed in a dispute over fees six months ago. The new compromise deal lasts until 2012...
- Articles 2009-09-03
- YouTube Movie Rentals: An Intriguing But Dubious Idea
- [by Will Richmond, VideoNuze] Last week it came out that YouTube is in talks with Lionsgate, Sony (NYSE: SNE), MGM and Warner Bros. about launching streaming movie rentals. On the surface this is an intriguing proposition: the 800 pound gorilla of the online video world tantalizing Hollywood with its...
- External links 2009-09-08
- YouTube officially inks VoD deal with Channel 4
- 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...
- Articles 2009-10-14
- YouTube Begins UK Long-Form TV VOD: C4 Signed, May Get ITV
- 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...
- External links 2009-10-15
- YouTube Praises Itself On Its Google Birthday
- Google’s attempts to turn around negative perceptions of its $1.6 billion purchase of YouTube continue: In a post marking the three year anniversary of the deal, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley praises the site’s “tenets” and announces it now gets “well over a billion views a day.” The post is...
- External links 2009-10-09
- Warner Music Hands Over Video Ad Sales To Outrigger
- 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...
- External links 2009-10-08
- Report: YouTube Beefing Up Video Rights Detection
- YouTube is reportedly looking to please broadcasters by enhancing its Content ID database through deals with three video transcoding companies.NYT says the site will on Wednesday announce deals with Harmonic, Telestream and Digital Rapids: “YouTube said it would be able to identify clips almost immediately after a program or...
- External links 2009-10-07
- Google Paid $1 Billion More For YouTube Than It Thought The Site Was Worth
- So, how much of a premium was Google (NSDQ: GOOG) willing to pay for YouTube back in 2006 to make sure that none of its competitors got control of the company? In a deposition, cited by CNET, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that while he believed that YouTube was...
- External links 2009-10-06
- Warner signs YouTube video deal - Rumour
- Warner Music Group has reportedly signed a deal with YouTube to bring music videos from artists such as U2 and Madonna back to the video-sharing website. The videos were removed from the site in December following a row over royalty payments. ...
- Articles 2009-09-27
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