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Google has teamed up with professional content companies including CBS and MGM, to offer long-form movie and TV content on the Web video giant YouTube. Among the studios and content creators already on board are Crackle, Lionsgate, Starz, the BBC, among others. Programming from these partners will appear...
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Disney Media Networks has signed a deal with Google’s YouTube that will bring short-from content from various Disney properties to the Web video giant. As part of the deal, clips from the Disney-ABC Television Group and ESPN will begin to appear on the site. ESPN content will roll out beginning in mid...
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Flying in the face of the recession—and the dip in attendance at industry events so far this year, including the Consumer Electronics Show—this week’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, is expecting at least a 20% rise over last year’s attendance figure of 9,000. SXSW boasts a...
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Time Warner is shaking up its AOL subsidiary and longtime NBC executive Randy Falco, its current chairman-CEO, is departing. Time Warner Chairman-CEO Jeff Bewkes today announced that Google Senior VP Tim Armstrong will become the new chairman-CEO of AOL. “Tim is the right executive to move AOL into the...
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For the first time, YouTube has surpassed 100 million U.S. monthly viewers, according to new comScore information. The Web video giant logged 100.9 million U.S. viewers during the month of January. Viewers averaged 62.6 clips each, bringing the site’s total to 6.3 billion video streams for the month...
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Google said it has begun including time-shifted viewership data in reports for its Google TV Ads clients. The data is being generated to provide advertisers “with insight into how and when viewers see your ads during DVR playback of recorded content,” the company said. “As with all metrics in your Google...
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Google continues to dominate the online search market, racking up a 21.7% increase in its number of searches in November, according to Nielsen Online. The total number of searches increased by 9.6%. The following chart shows the top search firms and their share of the market. Untitled Document Provider...
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For television, there seem to be more questions than answers as 2008 comes to a close: How many industry pros will lose their jobs? How long will the recession last? How badly will the advertising market that is TV’s lifeblood falter? Wave after wave of anxiety-provoking headlines don’t help matters...
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During October, the total number of Web searches dropped, but Google still managed to increase the amount of searches it handled, as well as its market share. Rivals Yahoo and MSN had a tough month, with searches down 12% and 19%, respectively. Statistics for the top 10 search providers appear in the...
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Google said it instituted new search technology today for the Google TV Ads Platform that will let advertisers make their TV spots more targeted. Google TV Ads is the search giant’s foray into the TV advertising business that lets marketers buy TV spots in the Google system based on the same auction...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt is calling on the government to do a “two-for” in crafting any economic stimulus policy. Instead of simply focusing on creating jobs, he suggests the government could simultaneously stimulate the economy and promote energy conservation. In a wide-ranging speech today at the New...
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In the latest effort to wring revenue from YouTube, parent company Google said Wednesday that it will sell ad space on YouTube search-result pages. That means advertisers can buy keywords related to YouTube videos, similar to the model Google pioneered for search ads. Users will see online commercials...
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After delaying a decision for hours, the Federal Communications Commission today gave the go-ahead to using the so-called “white space” between broadcast TV channels for new wireless devices, adding some last-minute limits on how the devices can initially be used. Computer and consumer electronics companies...
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Burger King will present 10 exclusive digital shorts from “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy” at youtube.com/bk, sethcomedy.com and targeted sites across the Google content network. The first two shorts debut today, with the rest of the shorts to be introduced weekly. Visitors to the YouTube...
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Your secret YouTube fetishes are safe. The district court in New York hearing Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google ruled Monday that Google-owned YouTube does not have to turn over “personally identifiable” user data to Viacom. That ruling comes in response to the court’s...