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NEW YORK (Reuters) - YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's archives in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programing, the company told Reuters on Sunday. The site, owned by Google ...
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Better late than never: YouTube to host full-length MGM films
TG Daily - All News — ... , but there is no doubt that YouTube completely missed the boat on hosting full-length movies. Now, the service seems to be catching up with ad-supported movies and TV episodes. Just don’t expect current blockbusters. Hulu has been showing movies for some time now and even IMDB recently started offering a limited portfolio – moves that could have segmented video sharing online and turned YouTube into a service perceived as a hobbyists destination. Reuters now reports that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) agreed to dig deep into its archives to provide professional programming for ...

MGM agrees to host full-length films / TV shows on YouTube
Engadget HD — ... YouTube has been dabbling in full-length professional content for a good while now, and as it seeks to compete more directly with the likes of Hulu, today it has landed a real big fish. Soon, a number of films and TV shows from ...

MGM Deal Puts Stake In Heart Of YouTube As We Know It
Podcasting News — ... Google has announced a deal with MGM to feature full-length movies and videos on YouTube - a deal that puts a stake in the heart of YouTube as we know it. ...

Old Media and Online Video: Those who can, won’t; those who want, can’t.
WatchMojo.com Business & Technology — ... a leap of faith and offering some of its full length movies on YouTube. The venerable studio has nothing to lose, and YouTube remains king of online video distribution with over 5B streams per month, so this is not a bad idea… for promotional purposes. I am not sure if commercially this will make a dent in MGM’s income statement. As a content provider to YouTube, I see many ways that MGM can indeed make money out of this, but it won’t be obvious, because not all content is created equally - especially by the venerable folks that make up Web ...

YouTube: The hits just keep on coming
mathewingram.com/work — ... Just yesterday, it was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that signed a deal with YouTube, allowing the video site to run full-length versions of movies (although the initial selection was ...

Laura Lee: YouTube Video Analytics Play Key Role in Marketing
Beet.TV — ... of its content monetizable. YouTube has already acquired television programming and feature films through its recent and much talked-about deals with CBS and MGM. ...

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