YouTube strikes content deals
YouTube Inc struck deals with CBS and two major music labels Monday as the popular video-sharing Web site races to befriend content providers and avoid copyright-infringement lawsuits.
The separate agreements with CBS, Vivendi’s Universal Music Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment come less than a month after YouTube reached a deal with Warner Music Group Corp. [...]
Google to Buy YouTube.com?
Friday brought reports that Google and YouTube were in talks about Google purchasing YouTube for around $1.6 billion. Reportedly, both companies said they do not discuss rumors and speculation and refused to comment, but many said it was an obvious meeting.
YouTube is based in California and it is widely used to upload videos for [...]
MySpace Takes On YouTube
Everybody knows: If you want to see video on the Web, you go to YouTube.
Except not everybody does: By at least one count, the upstart Web site trails old fogies like News Corp.’s (nyse: NWS – news – people ) MySpace and Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO – news – people ) in the number of video [...]
U.S. Uploads Anti-Drug Videos to YouTube
The White House is distributing government-produced, anti-drug videos on YouTube, the trendy Internet service that features clips of wacky, drug-induced behavior and step-by-step instructions for growing marijuana plants.
The decision to distribute public service announcements and other videos over YouTube represents the first concerted effort by the U.S. government to influence customers of the popular service, [...]
Soapbox: Microsoft’s “YouTube Killer”
Well Microsoft, as usual, continues on in its game of catch up with just about everybody around.
From its new Zune player, aka “iPod killer,” to the new Windows Live, aka “Google killer,” those deep pockets up in Redmond have taken reverse-engineering to a different level.
Now they have devised a new site called Soapbox, [...]
YouTube to Get Some Cash from Warner Music
YouTube, the hot-hot-hot video sharing site, may finally start making some money off of its phenomenal web traffic. Warner Music has agreed to distribute its songs and music videos via YouTube under an ad revenue sharing deal. Here’s the interesting but somewhat-vague part of the pact: Warner will license not only the videos and music [...]
Universal Music Warns YouTube
Universal Music chief Doug Morris launched a loud salvo at YouTube, warning the upstart Internet firm that it could come into the legal crosshairs of the world’s largest music company.
YouTube, the prolific swapper of videos online, consistently violates the music industry’s copyrights when it allows users to post videos, Morris said in a speech at [...]
CBS wants to buy the next YouTube, not YouTube
CBS Corp is interested in spotting the next big phenomenon in user-generated programming over the Internet, not buying market leader YouTube, Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said on Thursday.
“It is obviously phenomenally successful,” Moonves said of YouTube. “I doubt we would buy it at this point. Maybe we would look for the next YouTube, the next [...]
YouTube: Waiting For The Payoff
The video-sharing Web site is a runaway success — everywhere but on the bottom line.
YouTube Inc. is the Internet company to beat these days. Wowed by its meteoric rise — the 19-month-old site dishes up 100 million daily videos — startups and giants alike are crowding into the video-sharing market. Microsoft Corp. (MSFT ) is [...]
How to Download Videos From YouTube and MySpace
Considering the craze over YouTube and MySpace that has overtaken the world as of late, there is an increasing demand to learn how to rip video and audio from pages on these sites. I’ll first go over how to rip video clips with a guide on how to rip audio to follow.
Now the only [...]
