marketingpilgrim.com - 12/22/2008
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Well, it looks like the most popular video site on the Internet is making somebody money—but it might not be Google. Universal Music Group reports that YouTube is making them “tens of millions of dollars.”
Rio Caraeff, executive vice president of Universal Music ...
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
ft.com - 12/29/2008
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ft.com —
A generation after the launch of MTV, major
record labels are hoping to revive the music video...
business online by creating a single digital destination for their artists’ output. Plans under discussion include: a partnership with Hulu, the online ...
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FT.com / Companies - Music industry looks to internet ...
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UMG Reports YouTube Making Them Millions
WebProNews Feed —
... 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
YouTube Has More Expenses Than Revenue
WebProNews Feed —
... megabits per second.
Other reports have placed YouTube’s revenue this year anywhere from $120 million to $500 million.
Of course, bandwidth costs aren’t new: Facebook has been battling rising costs and falling revenue-per-users for some time. On the other hand, YouTube has been searching for effective monetization basically since Google acquired the company.
What do you think? Can ...
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latimesblogs.latimes.com 12/11/2008 —
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On some bright, parched morning back in the Old West, folks must have heard grumbling as a boy nailed a list of new town laws to the wall of the saloon. And ...
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The Register 12/22/2008
Claims living in material world, is material girl YouTube began removing videos with music from Warner Music Group's stable of artists this weekend after royalty renegotiations between the two companies broke down.…
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