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- YouTube hosts Authors @ Google: Beware, NO talking back!
- YouTube’s top marketing exec Suzie Reider is fond of extolling the real “conversations” that YouTube hosted videos spark amongst YouTubers, warning prospective marketers not to “mess up” the “authentic” YouTube community.Why then does Google not wish to spark authentic conversation around its own videos that it posts to YouTube?Google proudly...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, Social Media, Google, Culture
- Blog posts 2007-04-29
- YouTube makes deal with BBC: Who wins?
- The two Internet kings—Google and YouTube—were unusually restrained in announcing “BBC and YouTube partner to bring short-form BBC online content to online audiences.”Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC, did offer the typical “ground-breaking partnership” exclamation, however.How ground breaking? Not very from the YouTube side.AUTHORIZED CONTENT ON YOUTUBE: The non-exclusive partnership...
- Tags: Business Models, Google, Google Software Applications, ROI, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Television, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Google: Hollywood vs. YouTube video games
- Will the Google-YouTube-Copyright Holders video game ever end?Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscars via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to remove all unauthorized clips, Variety stated yesterday.I just relived...
- Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- YouTube scores NBA deal
- Do you dream about being the next Michael Jordan? You can have your basketball shot at clip-culture fame courtesy of the NBA and YouTube:“Post Up the NBA” debuts on the new “NBA Channel” on YouTube to “provide fans around the world and the entire YouTube community with the opportunity to...
- Tags: Social Software, Search Advertising, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, YouTube, Video, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Google, Search, Advertising, Web 2.0, Media
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Google: Why TV networks will trump YouTube
- It is a mainstream media irony when the very old print media guard characterizes the broadcast old media guard as merely “posturing” before the mighty, inexorable Google. While the “old gray lady” strives to maintain an apparent “balanced” discussion of Viacom and NBC and News Corp. versus Google, Richard...
- Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Business Models, Content, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Legal, Local, Marketing, Media, Metrics, Newspapers, Search, Search Advertising, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-18
- YouTube riches: Social video production or social video pirating?
- Nicholas Carr underscores that YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen each pulled down about a third of a billion dollars in selling their video-sharing company to the search giant Google, asserting they “came by their windfall fair and square.”How so? “They built a better mousetrap,” says Carr.Perhaps, but what...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Search, Google, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
- YouTube: Are YouTubers at risk?
- The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School strives to “pioneer” the development of cyberspace. The Center’s pioneering efforts include “advocacy”:We engage in targeted efforts to effect law reform where we deem such activism to be necessary, both domestically and internationally, to protect and foster openness on...
- Tags: Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Media, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Why Google will lose its multi-billion dollar video bet
- In the immortal words of presidential candidate Ronald Regan to President Jimmy Carter “There you go again.” Google is at it again, big time, $1.65 billion worth. Google’s YouTube copyright owner be damned DMCA umbrella philosophy inspires a YouTuber “broadcast yourself” by uploading pirated videos owned by television...
- Tags: Advertising, Search, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Search Advertising, Google Inc., Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc., television network
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Who needs Google? CBS vs. Viacom vs. NBC
- Way back in November I underscored “Google’s fuzzy YouTube logic.”In “Google to TV networks: Believe in YouTube” I analyzed how Google made its mark at YouTube, a PR mark, just one week after officially taking over the YouTube reigns. In a joint announcement with CBS, Google did what it excels...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Advertising, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Brands, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-03
- Google CEO on YouTube: We have the fans
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked on Wednesday at the company’s 2006 Q4 earnings call about YouTube monetization and the uploading of copyright content at YouTube.Schmidt responded with typically vague Googley "philosophy": The real value we found with people who have produced copyrighted work and the reason that they want...
- Tags: Business Models, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Can YouTube make revenue sharing work?
- In the recent Chad Hurley induced euphoria over power to the people, monetary power to the “little” video people that is, many celebrated a seemingly greater democratization of Web 2.0. As in all democracies, however, the Web 2.0 variety has a messy underbelly of conflicting motivations and inherent obstacles....
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Will YouTube 'King Hurley' really share video riches?
- YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley & Steve Chen celebrated their $1.65 billion buyout by Google in a giddy “broadcast yourself” YouTube clip culture video proclaiming the joining together of two Internet “kings.”The two kings are currently being feted on the international stage at The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2007 convened...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Brands, Marketing, Self-Promotion, ecommerce, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, Search Advertising, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-27
- Is YouTube really a $1.65 billion Web 2.0 success?
- Is Chad Hurley the poster “king” for Web 2.0 entrepreneurial success?Does the YouTube “story” reflect a Web 2.0 start-up model to be emulated? Googles $1.65 billion stock acquisition of the free-for-all, no fees required, online video hosting property undoubtedly leads most to shout a resounding NEED YOU ASK!NewTeeVee says...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Local, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, User-Generated Content, Venture Capital, VC, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- Video on stage: Bolt, NBBC, Network2 in NYC
- TV killed the video star? Or vice versa?Veteran and aspiring online video stars met-up last night in New York City’s Columbia University to demo and promo their video plays before an enthusiastic audience of about 150 members of the NY Video 2.0 Group.Although bitter cold outside, hot ideas were bubbling...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Venture Capital, VC, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Metrics, Jeff Pulver, Network2
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- Google's YouTube: Who are the broadcasters?
- The official Google blog declares “YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and the rest of the YouTube team will continue to innovate exciting new ways for people to broadcast themselves."Chad and Hurley et. al may indeed “innovate” for YouTubers to continue “broadcasting themselves.” Their corporate parent, however, is unwavering...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Advertising, Search, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Movies, Social Networking, Social Media, Search Advertising, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- NBC to YouTube: Video removal request game to end
- In “YouTube, iPhone and NBC: Users in control?” I discuss YouTuber exvia’s upload of a copy of the NBC-SNL Steve Jobs parody and the changing nature of the NBC-YouTube relationship. NBC may have already flagged “SNL - Steve Jobs iPhone” for removal. “Sand is running out of the hourglass,”...
- Tags: game, video, YouTube Inc., NBC
- Blog posts 2007-01-14
- YouTube: Is 'cheating' hurting YouTuber community?
- All may not be well in the YouTube “community.” YouTube videos allege gaming, scamming, manipulation, abuse…of the YouTube ratings and video views counting systems.Sound familiar? YouTuber talk of supposed unfairness within the YouTube video-sharing “community” is strikingly similar to Digger talk of supposed unfairness within the Digg news-sharing “community.”While the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Advertising, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Should YouTube police video uploads?
- A Brazilian judge has ordered YouTube to find a way to stop Brazilians from viewing explicit footage of supermodel Daniela Cicarelli and her boyfriend that has been uploaded without authorization to YouTube, according to Associated Press reports.Cicarelli’s attorney, Rubens Decousseau Tilkian is cited:The Internet is democratic and has to be...
- Tags: Social Networking, Social Media, Google Software Applications, Content, Web 2.0, Culture, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Privacy, Saddam, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
- YouTube vs. MySpace: Is friendly bankable?
- MySpace touts more than 100 million MySpace “friends” and YouTube touts more than 100 million “clip-culture” videos viewed daily. One hundred million is an impressive sounding number. The millions of MySpace social networkers and YouTube video sharers the sites boast are what attracted News Corp. and Google to acquire...
- Tags: Social networking, MySpace, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Why Google wants YouTube independent
- “YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community,” Google put forth in announcing its acquisition of YouTube:YouTube will retain its distinct brand identity, strengthening and complementing Googles own fast-growing video business.I heard Suzie Reider, CMO YouTube, assert in NYC days before the acquisition officially closed that...
- Tags: Social Media, Copyright, Google Software Applications, Self-Promotion, Marketing, Brands, Amateur Content, YouTube, Video, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Business Models, YouTube Inc., Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
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