Warner Music videos are headed back to YouTube, but it's going to cost Google. Executives at the third-biggest music company said they would receive "a vast majority" of any ad revenues generated by videos from Warner artists. That includes Coldplay, Madonna, Green Day and a zillion catalog artists such as the Monkees, Joni Mitchell and the … [Read more...]
FCC making Net neutrality official
Making good on a Barack Obama campaign promise, the FCC plans to officially bar ISPs from lording over the content and data that flow through their Internet pipes. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, pictured, is scheduled to make the announcement Monday, various news media reported. The news is quite good for the online video industry and its … [Read more...]
YouTube serves 10 bil videos in record month
About 161 million viewers watched online video during the month of August, the largest audience ever recorded, the ratings service ComScore reported. They churned up more than 25 billion video views over all, another record. Almost 40 percent of that traffic went to Google's YouTube, of course. The UGC site served up 10 billion videos during the … [Read more...]
YouTube in talks for new Hollywood movies
YouTube appears poised to enter the movie rental business, offering streams of current Hollywood movies at the going rate. The Wall Street Journal web site broke the news that Google's amateur video giant has been in talks with Sony, Warner Bros., MGM and Lionsgate for full-length Hollywood fare. At least some of the video rentals would be … [Read more...]
iTunes 9, Blu-ray: talk of the town
"Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It's great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we're waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace." -- Steve Jobs, Oct. 14, 2008 The Apple chieftain's decision to wait until Blu-ray "takes off" means we should be seeing some movement regarding the high … [Read more...]
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