paidcontent.org - 12/19/2008
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YouTube is driving more than traffic to music labels like Universal Music Group. Rio Caraeff, EVP of UMG's eLabs, told CNET that YouTube is adding " tens of millions of dollars " to the recording company's bottom line: "(YouTube) is not like radio, where it's just promotional ... It's a revenue ...
news.cnet.com - 12/19/2008
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news.cnet.com —
YouTube's traffic machine may finally be turning into
a cash machine. For the first time, there are...
signs that YouTube is driving significant revenue for itself and some of the video site's partners. In an interview with CNET News this week, Rio ...
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Universal Music seeing 'tens of millions' from YouTube
techcrunch.com - 12/19/2008
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techcrunch.com —
Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter
of all Google search queries in the U.S., according...
to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which was released on Thursday night, breaks out the number of ...
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ComScore: YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google Searches
youtube.com - 12/19/2008
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youtube.com —
We have two developments that we would like
to share with you: the expansion of our HD...
player and a test of three new landing pages designed to help you find the news, music and movies on YouTube that matter most to you. HD on YouTube Starting ...
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Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages on YouTube
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YouTube Making Universal Music Money–What about Google?
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... “We’re working with them on a variety of new concepts and new businesses to take the groundwork we’ve done in the last year and half and do a lot more with it,” he added. “I wouldn’t expect to see us just do business with YouTube like we used to do.”
Earlier this month, YouTube also vowed that there would be more to come in terms of monetization for the site. Any guesses what we’ll see next year?
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Wash Post Technology —
... in the land, and learned that the label is making “tens of millions of dollars” through its partnership with YouTube. Universal posts its artists’ music videos on YouTube and shares the ad revenue from those videos with Google; they also share revenue on user-uploaded music videos. Says Universal’s Rio Caraeff, “(YouTube) is not like radio, where it’s just promotional. It’s a revenue stream, a commercial business.”
PaidContent.org points out, though, that YouTube will still only account for about 1% of Google’s ...
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... Boy, and Disney s Hollywood Records. Caraeff says that there s also more to come: We re working with them on a variety of new concepts and new businesses to take the groundwork we ve done in the last year and half and do a lot more with it, he added. I wouldn t expect to see us just do business with YouTube like we used to do. Earlier this month, YouTube also vowed that there would be more to come in terms of monetization for the site. Any guesses what we ll see next year? via Comments
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