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Viacom said on Tuesday that it had struck a deal to provide television and music video content to Baidu, one of China’s biggest and fastest-growing Internet companies. The alliance between Viacom’s MTV Networks and Baidu.com, one of the world’s most heavily trafficked Web sites, is the biggest effort so far to introduce American television and …
In the latest sign of the rapidly shifting forces on the Web, Yahoo Inc. acknowledged it faces increased competition for online advertising dollars from both new and established rivals. For several years, Yahoo, Google Inc. and a few other large sites have reaped the lion’s share of U.S. online-ad spending without significant challenges from upstarts. …
Google is prepared to pump more video into YouTube, an executive with the search giant said. Days after the $1.65 billion sale was announced, Marissa Mayer, Google vp search product and user experience, discussed the company’s acquisition at a breakfast hosted Friday by the New Yorker and Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications. Envisioning more …
It’s official. Say hello to Chad and Steve, the worlds newest millionaires. Web-search giant Google has acquired YouTube for roughly $1.6 billion. The acquisition of YouTube makes Google the 500 gorilla of online video. And that’s a perfect place to be at a time when consumers are rapidly increasing the amount of time they spend …
YouTube and CBS said today they have struck a content and advertising deal through which CBS and sibling cable operations Showtime and College Sports TV Networks will provide daily short-form news, sports and entertainment clips to the Internet video distributor. This marks the first distribution agreement between the YouTube and a major broadcast network. YouTube …
The latest prize in the great Internet land grab, online-video company YouTube Inc., could soon be snapped up by Google Inc. Web-search giant Google is in talks to acquire YouTube for roughly $1.6 billion, a person familiar with the matter says. An acquisition of the closely held company would catapult Google to the lead spot …
Apple posted a downloadable QuickTime movie of the new iPod Nano ad on their website. You’ve probably already seen the ads on TV. If not, it’s a slight departure from Apple’s standard black silhouette dancer ads. Although these ads still feature a silhouette dancer, their focus is more on the new colors of the iPod …
Free music downloads? Is this good news for music lovers!? What’s the catch? Universal Music, the world’s largest music company, has shaken up the record industry by announcing that it will make its song catalogue available as free internet downloads. Unlike Napster and other competing online music retailers, could this service actually pose a challenge …
Entertainment Network (India) Ltd. plans to raise its advertising rates by 25 percent for 7 of its radio stations from September 1, a company official said on Thursday. The company’s 7 stations are in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune, Indore and Ahmedabad. Advertising rates would also be increased by 10 percent at its three new …
YouTube, the current darling of the online video world, is making “significant revenue” right now. So said its CEO Chad Hurley in an appearance at a digital media conference in San Jose on Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting. The site, Hurley reportedly said, is looking at new ways to offer advertising, trying to …
Google and MySpace, two of the biggest names on the Internet struck a nearly billion-dollar deal Monday to combine the search and advertising technology of Google Inc. with the massive online audience of News Corp.’s MySpace. The agreement, worth at least $900 million to News Corp. over the next four years, capitalizes on the popularity …
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Broadcast monitoring service Critical Mention is adding new data on TV viewership from Nielsen Media Research and advertising estimates through SQAD to expand its service. Critical Mention’s clients, which include PR firms, manufacturers and politicians, use the service to track their mentions on broadcast TV, particularly in news programs. By adding information from Nielsen and …
The golden age of YouTube might be over. According to the new YouTube terms of service, the popular video-sharing service now owns your content, not you. The changes to its terms of service have a lot of people outraged and now many YouTube users are contemplating switching to other video sharing sites like REVVER. According …
With some help from Google Earth, Maxim magazine is celebrating its 100th issue in a very big way with a brilliant publicity stunt.
Came across the above pic on Flickr this morning and was instantly impressed by the ingenuity exhibited by the shop owner responsible for this stores window. The picture has little in the way of a description, but it looks like it was taken yesterday in Japan by Flickr user “thorner”. The man in the photo …
