Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris called the two media sharing websites “copyright infringers” and hinted at legal action against them. YouTube has until the end of September to appease Morris and company…
YouTube Inspires MeToobs
Word around the blogfire is that both News Corp. and Microsoft are working on their own versions of YouTube, one trying derail outbound traffic, the other doing its usual killer app copycatting.
YouTube Cashes In On Yahoo Exodus
Gideon Yu, Yahoo treasurer and senior VP for finance, can be listed among the executives and staffers leaving Yahoo for startup companies and a chance to cash in on a fast run-up in value a new company offers those on the ground floor.
UK Gov’t Violates Own Copyright On YouTube
Because of a copyright violation, the UK Cabinet Office, Britain’s “head office,” was forced to yank a public service video from YouTube. But the complaint came from an unlikely place – from an agency within.
YouTube’s Night In Paris
YouTube’s quest to maximize its monetary potential culminates with a night in Paris. Sorry. Wrong preposition. A night with Paris. Kicking off the premiere video site’s venture into rich media advertising, Paris Hilton gets her own channel to promote her music video and album release.
YouTube Ripe For Purchase By Apple?
Rumors abound about who wants to, who can, and who will buy YouTube (assuming that it’s ever offered for sale). Some of the most-mentioned names include Google, NewsCorp, and Time Warner. A GigaOM article recently presented another option – Apple – and made a convincing argument for that possibility.
YouTube Receives Minor Revisions
YouTube went down again thursday night, but this time, it was a planned “outage.” Now the site is up and running again, with “some maintenance and . . . a few new features” under its belt.
YouTube Breaks Down, Breaks Out
A service outage of several hours represented some growing pains for the YouTube video sharing service, which has become so popular that it is now part of the comScore Media Metrix Top 50.
YouTube Wants “Every Music Video Ever”
YouTube, the company without a business strategy, seems to have developed at least one idea about what it wants to “do.” Co-founder Steve Chen announced his goal “to have every music video ever created up on YouTube” within the next year and a half. I’m not sure how to phrase this in a more mature manner, so I’ll just say it: that would be pretty cool.
YouTube Did Not Beat MySpace, Not Even Close
A Guardian Unlimited story has floated around all day with the headline “YouTube overtakes MySpace,” detailing how the video-sharing website had surpassed MySpace in daily global Internet visits. Unfortunately, it’s flat out wrong. YouTube’s not even close.