The Future of Goo Tube or Will Google and
YouTube Get Tubed?
Are the tubular
bells chiming? by
Mark Shapiro
The Internet streaming video action continues
to be hot and heavy. Will Goo Video be successful or will all the
media and broadcast companies, in the name of copyright protection,
succeed in killing off the YouTube and online video sharing
phenomenon?
They are going after YouTube,
Grouper, Bolt.. who's next on the hit list?
It is sort of ironic that all these media
companies were not very successful in leveraging the technology or
promoting their own streaming video channels but when an independent
made it happen, they all come swarming around like sharks. And now
they want money or they are going to pull their content. But at the
same time, other content creators are giving content to Goo Tube
hoping it gets picked up and goes viral.
Aren’t
music videos and clips for broadcast shows essentially just
advertising for these programmers?
Check out our
"Guide to Getting Your Video Up at YouTube"
Check out this week's news
YouTube
deletes 30,000 files after Japanese group's
complaints 
USA Today - Oct 20 5:00
AM -
The popular
U.S.-based video-sharing website YouTube
has deleted nearly 30,000 files over
copyright concerns after being asked by a
group representing Japan's entertainment
industry. The Japan Society for Rights of
Authors, Composers and Publishers, found
29,549 files posted without permission.
The real reason that Google
bought YouTube?
CNN Money - Oct 19 9:06
AM
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.
Universal Sues Grouper and
Bolt.com
Fast Company
Magazine - Oct 18 8:15 PM
Vivendi-owned
Universal Music Group filed a lawsuit Monday
against video-sharing YouTube rival Websites
Grouper.com and Bolt.com, accusing
the sites of hosting pirated versions of
Universal music videos. Universal maintains
that the two sites allowed users to view,
share, and swap...
With YouTube, Google
Takes Aim At Video Ads
AdWeek.com via Yahoo!
News - Oct 19 3:05 PM
A day after
Google bought their company, YouTube
co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen did
something new: They posted a video on their
site. At one point in the amateurish
minute-and-a-half video, the 29-year-old
Hurley exuberantly explains, "The two kings
have gotten together," causing the newly
minted multimillionaires to crack up.
Music companies share in
YouTube-Google deal
International Herald
Tribune - Oct 19 7:42 AM
The young
founders of YouTube may have been the
biggest beneficiaries of last week's $1.65
billion deal with Google, but they have some
unexpected bedfellows - old-line media
companies that had been considered
YouTube's biggest legal threat.
IS YOUTUBE DEAD? /
When the Man comes knocking, you can bet the
party stops rocking
San Francisco
Chronicle - Oct 19 11:53 AM
If you check
out YouTube right now, the Web site
looks pretty much the same as it did two
weeks ago, before Google bought it for $1.6
billion. Amateur chemists are still mixing
Diet Coke and Mentos with explosive results.
White suburban kids are still trying...
EXCLUSIVE: PBS To Push Promos
on YouTube
It has set up
a "directors account" on YouTube--allowing
for longer clips and some other perks--and
has begun showcasing promos with a link to
the PBS homepage and the show's site.
CBS adds content channel to
YouTube as part of partnership
Detroit News - Oct 19
11:26 PM
YouTube
and CBS Corp. said that they have launched
the CBS Brand Channel, a central part of the
content and advertising partnership between
the two companies announced last week.
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