YouTube for Independent Films – DoveTail
DoveTail, which is currently in early beta (you can test it today), is a distribution platform for independent film, TV shows and music videos – Rocketboom also makes an appearance. They have a web-based showcase where you can view films, add tags and make comments – you can also embed clips in external sites like [...]
Capturing Online Video Pirates
Can video fingerprinting and watermarking technology stop copyright violators?
YouTube visitors upload 65,000 videos every day and download 100 million of them. Since all those videos have to come from somewhere, it’s no surprise that many are pirated — that is, copied from commercial TV broadcasts and movies and posted without the permission of the copyright [...]
YouTube in music label talk
YouTube has begun talks with record labels in the hope of beginning to offer music videos alongside the home videos, viral ads and bootlegged clips that have propelled it to the top of the Internet popularity ratings.
The site’s founders are currently working to develop a commercial model that will allow it to provide the videos [...]
YouTube overtakes MySpace
YouTube has established itself at the top of the league of the new generation of community websites by becoming even more popular than MySpace, according to research.
The video sharing site has taken a 3.9% share of global internet visits a day compared with 3.35% for MySpace, according to internet analysis company Alexa.
YouTube’s popularity has grown [...]
War Takes Off On File-Sharing Web Sites
Here’s how the Israel-Hezbollah conflict is playing out on the Internet’s latest window into the human experience, YouTube.com: Videos of young girls driving around smoking and joking about Hezbollah, next to shaky footage of grieving men toting dead bodies through rubble as sirens wail. Old propaganda films alongside homemade documentaries about the conflict.
Internet video sites [...]
L.A. News Service Sues YouTube Over Beating Video
A Los Angeles video news service sued YouTube Inc. on Friday in federal court for allowing its users to upload copyrighted video footage onto the popular Web site, including the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 riots.
Los Angeles News Service and its owner and operator, Robert Tur, assert in the lawsuit that in [...]
‘Pirates’ Seizes YouTube
THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY THURSDAY launched a campaign on YouTube.com for the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” marking the first time a national marketer has advertised on the popular video-sharing site.
The campaign–which was live for just 24 hours on Thursday–included rich media banner ads featuring a panning close-up of “Pirates” star Johnny [...]
YouTube challenger offers to pay for video
A new video-sharing site is offering videographers a share of the advertising dollars that their movies generate, at a time when most video-sharing sites are just trying to eke out a profit.
“The authors of Internet content should be paid for their work and not have it exploited for others’ gain,” said a note posted Monday [...]
Eisner on YouTube: It’s great but
Ex-Disney CEO, top media execs think the explosion of online video sites presents an opportunity, but also a threat, to big media firms.
YouTube and mainstream media companies will be able to peacefully co-exist, according to many top media executives.
Speaking at a panel discussion about entertainment in the digital age at the FORTUNE Brainstorm conference Thursday [...]
NBC to run fall TV promos on YouTube
NBC will use the YouTube video-sharing site to promote its fall television lineup in a strategic partnership that further underscores the Internet’s growing role in generating buzz around traditional media shows.
Even with the deal, announced Tuesday, YouTube visitors are not likely to find legal clips of “Lazy Sunday,” the “Saturday Night Live” parody rap that [...]
