New Eisner Internet Video Venture: Web Studio Vuguru
Proof that the well of cute and oddly irritating names for new internet video companies has yet to run dry … the latest is Vuguru from for… Read more »
Proof that the well of cute and oddly irritating names for new internet video companies has yet to run dry … the latest is Vuguru from for… Read more »
CBSNews.com SVP/GM Betsy Morgan said the company was fixed on sharing its videos on sites around the web, having realized it needed to give… Read more »
On the surface, the demand by Magnolia Pictures, a film company co-owned by Mark Cuban, to know who uploaded copyright material on Google an… Read more »
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Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman: “People aren’t going to spend money for user-generated content like a cat going to the bathroom.” (via CNNMoney) Read more »
Unlike some people who head for the antacids, Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt actually may thrive on criticism. Yes, according to AP, h… Read more »
Microsoft is launching (yet another) PR offensive against Google, this time with book publishers as the foil. When Tom Rubin, associate gene… Read more »
In a deal likely to raise some eyebrows in UK, BBC has done a more-than-trivial clips licensing deal with YouTube. Three YouTube channels -… Read more »
In case there was any doubt that Microsoft is heavily into DRM, the company put it on paper via a letter from entertainment go-to exec Blair… Read more »
A good trend story in NYT about YouTube’s quest for small content deals, as it waits and litigates for big media content licensing deals.
Ju… Read more »
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has asked YouTube to take down clips of its Oscarcast and the user-gen video giant has complied, r… Read more »
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Some highlights from the CBS 4Q06 earnings call with Chairman Sumner Redstone and CEO Leslie Moonves: (transcript by SeekingAlpha):
MMOD: M… Read more »
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The Google-YouTube filter picture just got a little blurrier … after months of insistence by YouTube that it was developing an in-house fi… Read more »
Google is doing some damage control today, after a spate of stories on how it failed to close deals with media companies (or, if you’re so i… Read more »
The wide-ranging and widely-expected Google-CBS deal, supposed to have been announced at CES last month, is dead for now, reports WSJ in a l… Read more »
YouTube news and controversies, what else:
– YouTube anti-piracy software policy draws fire: YouTube’s blackmailing tactics highlighted: i… Read more »
It’s round two in Viacom’s war against YouTube, as the media conglomerate will make videos from all MTV-owned sites available for download t… Read more »
Some more grist for the mill being operated by those who point to YouTube’s willingness to id misused copyrighted content for partners but n… Read more »
Updated below: This is based on the $470.01 closing share price of Google on Wednesday. Google did an SEC filing today which detailed the sh… Read more »
Viacom knew exactly what it was doing with a showy demand that YouTube take down tens of thousands of clips — even though it apparently did… Read more »
Updated below to include statement from Google: Exasperated by the failure to reach an agreement with Google and YouTube after months of neg… Read more »
Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts told analysts during Thursday’s earnings call that there’s a correlation between how well his company… Read more »
We covered the earlier earnings announcement here.
From the call: Echoing YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley’s comments at Davos last week, Goog… Read more »
In answer to the question, “How Much is The New Dotcom Worth?” AO Media panelists noted that it depends, but in unique cases the sky is lite… Read more »
So says a story on Billboard.biz, which says that some key players in the indie music community are preparing for a legal skirmish with YouT… Read more »
This generated a lot of links and stories since Thursday….Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, speaking at Davos, flippantly mentioned the… Read more »
This has been debated internally for a while, and Google still couldn’t bring itself to kill Google Video: it announced today that the video… Read more »
Frustrated by uploads to YouTube of episodes of two of its most popular shows, News Corp.’s 20th Century Fox has turned to subpoenas. Steve… Read more »
Marketers of baldness cures and miracle weight-loss remedies, take note: if you advertise on YouTube, you are subject to the same standards… Read more »
Oldtimers on the Net sometimes argue that a platform is all over when the marketers show up. At Google-owned YouTube, it’s CMO Suzie Reider’… Read more »
KZSW, a local TV station in Temecula, Calif., has begun posting news and sports coverage to YouTube. The station started last month, and whe… Read more »
User-generated video might be all the rage, but it doesn Read more »
While the crowd at MacWorld was waiting for the gospel by Steve, I was backstage during the Michael Dell keynote chatting with another man w… Read more »
While CBS CEO Leslie Moonves was sharing the CES stage with what he called in deadpan fashion “the Angelina Jolies and Brad Pitts of the int… Read more »
An interesting overview of the online video sharing sites and scene in Europe, and the big question whether biggies such as YouTube would ru… Read more »
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