There has perhaps never been a better time to drop your $60-a-month cable bill and subsist purely on free web video.
When Hulu, the online video joint venture of GE's NBC and News Corp.'s Fox (and now Disney's ABC), launched last year, CEO Jason Kilar said its mission was "to help people find and enjoy the world's premium content when, where, and how they want it." Perhaps what he meant to say was, "Anytime, anywhere, anyhow - except on a TV screen."
Not so long ago, music companies were doing all they could to keep their music away from online video sites. Now Vivendi-owned Universal Music Group is partnering with Google's YouTube to do for music videos what Hulu.com has done for TV. After much speculation, the companies Thursday afternoon announced plans for Vevo.com, a premium music site that will feature all of UMG's artists.
YouTube is in talks to acquire licensing rights to full-length content from Sony Pictures, home of such films as "The International" and "Spider-Man," sources familiar with the negotiations told CNET News.
A 15-year-old has created a free-music service by harnessing YouTube's vast library of music videos.
It took Hulu.com less than a year to become the go-to destination for television-watching on the Web. Hulu even scored a spot on traditional media's biggest stage, a Super Bowl commercial.
When Corey Wynsma's wife got laid off a few months ago from her graphic design job, the couple did an inventory of their household budget.
Marilyn Parver never wanted to become a YouTube star. Neither did Iesha Walker.
With many workers stuck at their desks during the late-morning swearing-in of President Obama on Tuesday, more people than ever went online to watch live video of the historic inauguration.
Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans had never been the subject of a TV commercial, let alone an Internet ad. The 168-year-old business, where third-generation waiters serve gumbo and other Creole delicacies to third-generation customers, had only ever advertised in print and on radio. So last June, the owners decided to drag the restaurant into the 21st century with an ad on YellowPages.com, complete with a promotional video.
There has perhaps never been a better time to drop your $60-a-month cable bill and subsist purely on free web video.
When Hulu, the online video joint venture of GE's NBC and News Corp.'s Fox (and now Disney's ABC), launched last year, CEO Jason Kilar said its mission was "to help people find and enjoy the world's premium content when, where, and how they want it." Perhaps what he meant to say was, "Anytime, anywhere, anyhow - except on a TV screen."
Not so long ago, music companies were doing all they could to keep their music away from online video sites. Now Vivendi-owned Universal Music Group is partnering with Google's YouTube to do for music videos what Hulu.com has done for TV. After much speculation, the companies Thursday afternoon announced plans for Vevo.com, a premium music site that will feature all of UMG's artists.
YouTube is in talks to acquire licensing rights to full-length content from Sony Pictures, home of such films as "The International" and "Spider-Man," sources familiar with the negotiations told CNET News.
A 15-year-old has created a free-music service by harnessing YouTube's vast library of music videos.
It took Hulu.com less than a year to become the go-to destination for television-watching on the Web. Hulu even scored a spot on traditional media's biggest stage, a Super Bowl commercial.
When Corey Wynsma's wife got laid off a few months ago from her graphic design job, the couple did an inventory of their household budget.
Marilyn Parver never wanted to become a YouTube star. Neither did Iesha Walker.
With many workers stuck at their desks during the late-morning swearing-in of President Obama on Tuesday, more people than ever went online to watch live video of the historic inauguration.
Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans had never been the subject of a TV commercial, let alone an Internet ad. The 168-year-old business, where third-generation waiters serve gumbo and other Creole delicacies to third-generation customers, had only ever advertised in print and on radio. So last June, the owners decided to drag the restaurant into the 21st century with an ad on YellowPages.com, complete with a promotional video.
Amy Poehler is one of the hottest properties in comedy today, a close second to former "Saturday Night Live" co-star Tina Fey. Anyone who caught Poehler impersonating Hillary Clinton or rapping about Sarah Palin knows how good she is.
If you visit YouTube.com - where close to half of all online video is seen - the power-to-the-people motto "Broadcast yourself" appears at the top of your browser. Lately, though, it's hard not to wonder if the "you" in YouTube doesn't increasingly refer to "them": the Big Kahuna media companies whose video wares have been gaining more notice both on YouTube and elsewhere on the web.
For months, YouTube has been making a pitch to Hollywood studios: Give us your films, and we'll make you money.
Saturday Night Live isn't the only brand boosted by Tina Fey's Sarah Palin routines. If you're one of the millions who's watched those skits online within a week of their original broadcast, chances are you've seen them at Hulu.com. It's a big moment for the free video site.
Home entertainment trendsetters Netflix Inc. and TiVo Inc. are finally joining forces to deliver more movies and old TV episodes to their mutual subscribers, consummating a relationship that was supposed to come together four years ago
Congress has cleared the way for a potential agreement intended to save the emerging Internet radio market from a crippling hike in copyright royalty rates
The subject of the most-viewed YouTube sports clip of all-time, in a rather boring revelation, is the world's most-popular sport. The video is entitled Comedy Football. It's a montage of soccer bloopers set to Malcolm Arnold's The River Kwai March, and it has been watched 16.8 million times since it was posted on March 5, 2007. The most highly played sports clip that originated in the U.S. checks in at a respectable 9.1 million viewers; it's footage of an All-Star Weekend dance-off between Shaquille O'Neal, LeBron James and Dwight Howard.
Viacom has agreed to let Google strip identifying information from YouTube viewers' data before complying with a judge's order to hand over the records as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit.
In a nod to privacy complaints, Viacom Inc. won't be told the identities of individuals who watch video clips on the popular video-sharing site YouTube
No broadcaster shows how fast and far digital media has come than the U.S. network NBC Universal's plans for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In the 2006 Turin Winter Games, NBC streamed only one hockey game online. This year, NBC will stream 2,200 hours of 25 events live, with nearly the entire 4,000 hours of the games available on archive for North American Internet users.
At first glance, "Harold Buttelman, Daredevil Stuntman" appears to be typical YouTube farce. It's a video about a small town tuxedo salesman who thinks he's the next Evel Knievel. He's mistaken, of course.
Google says that a lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how millions of people exchange information on the Internet
Sen. Joseph Lieberman is urging Google Inc. to take down YouTube videos that he said al Qaeda and "other terrorist organizations" use to encourage violence and disseminate propaganda.
The future of television is changing before our eyes, as media giants scramble to stake their claims in the wilderness of Internet video.
George Wright figured a construction project was underway when he noticed wood shavings inside a room his company used for customer demonstrations.
Internet radios are kind of like the Jerry Lewis of consumer electronics--apparently they're really big in Europe, but you don't hear much about them in the states.
A new site named Hulu actually makes you want to watch TV shows online
When Fox and NBC Universal announced last March that they would join forces to put their TV shows online, the pundits of Silicon Valley howled with derision. Old media doesn't get the Internet, they said. Michael Arrington, the influential editor of TechCrunch, rattled off the reasons the project would never succeed and suggested that Fox and NBC quickly name their joint venture before it got stuck with the moniker insiders at Google had reportedly given it: Clown Co.
Chinese are uploading more Internet videos of sex, scandal and protest. It's big business -- and a headache for Beijing
Eight Republican presidential hopefuls sparred during their debate in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Wednesday, November 28. Click on the following links to watch or download video of the debate.
It was one of the most talked about moments in last year's congressional campaign.
Pitzer College this fall began offering what may be the first course about the video-sharing site YouTube
Watching video online in small, fuzzy boxes is heading the way of rabbit ears.
Mark Halperin scores it a win for Obama, a loss for Richardson and one giant step for user-generated content
It was one of the most talked about moments in the 2006 campaign: "Lets give a welcome to Macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia."
Black Sunday has come and gone, and Internet radio has managed to live and play for another day.
New royalty rates may doom many small stations and the struggling musicians who depend on them.
YouTube, which has had to pull copyrighted videos off its site after legal attacks by some big media franchises, has enjoyed a surge in U.S. audience share that leaves it far larger than the next 64 video-sharing sites combined, a survey found.
If, like me, you're a fan of Internet radio sites such as Pandora or Live365, you'll have to find something else to listen to Tuesday. Dozens of online broadcasters have stopped playing music, in protest of a new levy the government and the music labels are about to impose.
If, like me, you're a fan of Internet radio sites such as Pandora or Live365, you'll have to find something else to listen to next Tuesday. That's the day dozens of online broadcasters go silent, in protest of a new levy the government and the music labels are about to impose.
Never mind YouTube. An application just launched by Dmitry Shapiro, a serial peer-to-peer software entrepreneur, allows you to watch not only everything on YouTube but every piece of free video on the Web.
The popular user-generated video sharing site YouTube will begin testing video recognition technology in conjunction with partners Time Warner Inc. and The Walt Disney Co
Ten Republican presidential hopefuls battled over many issues during their New Hampshire debate on Tuesday, June 5, including Iraq, immigration and health care.
Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls clashed over many issues during their New Hampshire debate on Sunday, June 3, including immigration and health care, but it was the war in Iraq that raised hackles as well as eyebrows.
Chew on this. A startup called Babelgum is looking to make waves in the burgeoning world of online video.
A closely held tech firm with some impressive financial backing is hoping to piggyback on the success of YouTube and other online video sites with a new, inexpensive camcorder geared to older consumers who may not be as tech-savvy as their kids.
Internet radio broadcasts, jeopardized by a royalty payment ruling earlier this year, would get a reprieve under bipartisan legislation introduced in Congress.
Momentum. Yahoo! has it. Google doesn't. That's the current view on Wall Street.
Media giants News Corp. and NBC Universal announced Thursday that they will create an online video site that will rival the popular YouTube.
Viacom, with its lawsuit seeking more than $1 billion in damages from Google and YouTube, has shown that it's serious about copyright infringement.
Viacom sued Google and its online video subsidiary YouTube for $1 billion Tuesday, the first big lawsuit against the online video site and its parent for copyright infringement.
Mark Hall, a former executive with RealNetworks, fell in love with online video two years ago, thanks to an ultrafast broadband connection in his London home. When he returned to San Francisco last...
One morning last fall, Beth Comstock checked out the New York Post and found that she'd been Page Sixed. An item in the über-gossip column quoted an anonymous "insider" describing Comstock, NBC Uni...
Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt said Tuesday that it will take time for the company's recently acquired YouTube online video-sharing service to become a major source of sales and profits for the company.
Mobile advertising and online video advertising are going to be two big areas of growth for Google in the next few years, Google chairman and chief executive officer Eric Schmidt told investors at an tech industry conference Monday.
Senior executives at Yahoo! have probably become big fans of the rock group Van Halen lately.
It's getting crowded on the Web 2.0 frontier, but there are still some startups that truly stand out. Business 2.0 Magazine identifies the ones most likely to strike gold in 2007.
Big media, like a bully envious of the popular new kid in school, is starting to pick on YouTube. But will the tough talk from media moguls actually lead to significant changes at the top video sharing site?
Yahoo! pleased investors, even though its sales and profit guidance for 2007 was a bit disappointing. And if Yahoo was able to get Wall Street excited, just imagine what the reaction may be when Google reports its fourth-quarter results on January 31.
The president and chief operating officer of News Corp., the parent company of top social networking site MySpace as well as traditional media properties such as the Fox television network and movie studio, told investors that News Corp. plans to invest more heavily in MySpace this year but will be careful to not make changes that could alienate the site's users.
YouTube might just be the best thing that ever happened to old media.
Online video sharing site YouTube said Tuesday selected clips from its site would be available on Verizon Wireless phones starting early next month.
With apologies to the Buggles: it looks like video killed the dot-com media star.
It's only been a little more than a month since Google shook up the online video world by announcing that it was buying YouTube for $1.65 billion.
Oh my God, they purged Kenny!
Up until very recently, John Hall was in his 18th year of teaching management at the University of Florida. Then he wound up on YouTube.
Google stock closed at a record high Monday as investors kept cheering the company's strong third-quarter earnings and its recent $1.65 billion deal to buy online video kingpin YouTube.
Some traditional recording companies have taken a small stake in video-sharing site YouTube that could net them millions from the Web site's recent $1.65 billion sale to Google, according to a published report.
When Google spent $1.65 billion for 19-month-old online video phenomenon YouTube, it was portrayed as a sign of the triumph of online video. And in important ways it is. But the voluminous coverage missed something central. Google's interest in the video-sharing site, ironically, also has a lot to do with its belief in the staying power of conventional broadcast television and cable.
One gets the feeling that Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the youthful founders of YouTube, are truly enjoying their last moments of being relevant. When their $1.65-billion deal to sell YouTube to Google is completed sometime before the end of the year, the dynamic duo will be transformed from belles of the media ball to the guys who got stinking rich for a year's-plus worth of work but now answer to Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Rather than leading a revolution, they'll be conducting an experiment into whether a company formed on community principles can survive within a bigger company that has a distinct culture all its own.
One place where YouTube's success isn't being celebrated is in the offices of Universal Tube and Rollerform Equipment Corp. near Toledo, Ohio.
Has the online video shakeout only begun or is the bubble about to burst?
Google, the Internet's leading search engine, announced Monday that it is buying popular online video site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.
Barely a day goes by without news of a blockbuster deal involving the Internet and video. Witness Google's $1.65 billion purchase Monday of YouTube, the upstart video-sharing website.
Spending $1.65 billion to buy a Web site that specializes in wacky user-generated videos may seem like a steep price.
OK. So Al Gore didn't really invent the Internet. But thanks to a partnership with Yahoo, the former vice president is about to become a bigger media player on the Web.
One of the big hits to emerge on YouTube this summer was Lonelygirl15, a pouting teenager webcasting from her bedroom who turned out to be an actress hired by three ambitious wannabe producers with...
Sony has been in the headlines a lot lately...but not for good reasons.
It was a typical lunchtime at Michael's, the Manhattan restaurant and Big Media salon - a well-groomed scrum of editors, publishers, moguls, and TV stars.
Any list of the most important people in business has to start with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and a bunch of folks named Walton, right? They're the richest people on the planet, for Pete's sake. ...
If you want to attract a big audience for your quirky home-made video, you probably are going to put it on YouTube, the popular online video sharing site which recently announced that people are watching more than 100 million videos a day on the site.
For most people who submit user-generated videos to sites like MySpace, YouTube or Grouper, the reward is knowing that millions of people may see your clip. You may be famous...even if it's only for a few days or weeks at most.
Meet the next big television star: You.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Who needs TiVo?
Anyone who has ever hoisted a remote control can tell you that television has become more and more interactive. Digital set-top boxes, pay-per-view, game machines, personal digital video recorders,...
Even though I am a devoted music lover and have long been something of a technophile, I managed to avoid the MP3 digital music revolution for years. When Napster, the music-sharing program that jum...
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