Youtube are said to be seriously considering a pay option on the site in order to attract top shelf premium content to the historically free video site. The move they hope will tempt large media corporations to put content on the site, and who cannot be tempted by the current and relatively small advertising share. [...]
Discovery Communications, owners of The Discovery Channel (as well as the likes of Animal Planet, Science Channel, and the Oprah Winfrey Network), have splashed out to add a new name to their roster, as popular online TV network Revision3 has been purchased for a sum between $30-40 million. First airing in 2005, the online TV network [...]
Youtube have been beset with legal problems throughout their short history, and they have once again fallen foul of the law. The Google owned video website has lost a legal battle in Hamburg yesterday over the distribution of music clips. The case was brought by GEMA, the German performance rights organisation say the BBC, who [...]
The ComScore Video Metrix has been released for February 2012, showing the online video site rankings and Yahoo has come up trumps adding 10,000,000 unique viewers onto January’s figures and becoming the second-highest ranked video site. The report shows a slight drop in viewers compared to January but that Google owned Youtube stayed entrenched in [...]
Two of the biggest names in the global media industry are coming together to offer online content with official backing, as the Disney Channel launches a YouTube channel that so far features 67 videos, almost all of which are full-length, free-to-air 22-minute episodes of their shows. Delving into both their current collection of series (such as [...]
Google have released a YouTube update for their Google powered TV sets, adding channel functionality to YouTube and making the viewing experience better, faster and smoother for the viewer. Currently, the Youtube app allows viewers to search by topic and returns individual videos. The new update TV will return channel pages and allow users to [...]
