Bing Launches New Video Portal With Help From MSN

Bing and MSN have combined to create Bing Videos, a new video portal that combines the content from MSN Videos with Bing's search technology. According to today's announcement (and more here), the new site combines videos from a variety of sources. The former MSN Videos offered original programming, as well content from the likes of MSNBC, Fox Sports, National Geographic, and others. Bing Videos will house that content, and offer web-based videos from sites like YouTube, Hulu, MySpace, and others. Videos are organized into a handful of categories (News, Sports, TV Shows, etc.) and th [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing Videos, Microsoft: MSN Video, Search Engines: Video Search Engines, Top News


Viacom & Microsoft Announce Major Content, Ads Deal

Today Microsoft and Viacom announced a wide-ranging content and advertising deal that involves Viacom content distribution on Microsoft-owned sites, ad serving by Microsoft on Viacom properties, mutual distribution of game-related content and ads, as well as collaboration in other areas. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the announcement are apparent guarantees of Microsoft advertising on Viacom TV properties and online. The release lays out the full scope of the partnership, said to be worth $500 million over five years. Viacom famously and very publicly had a falling out with Google [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: MSN Video, Microsoft: Partnerships


Looking At Microsoft’s Continued Long Game In Search

Hooked on Google from the San Jose Mercury News revisits a theme from Microsoft that I've reported to readers over the years. That's how Microsoft's failure to beat Google in search -- despite millions in spending -- gets the "it's early days, give us time" defense from Microsoft. The defense is partially true, but it gets weaker and weaker as the actual years of saying that mount. The Mercury News article comes off Microsoft chairman Bill Gates making his regular appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. Last year, his comments at CES about Google being [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: General, Microsoft: MSN Video, Stats: Popularity, Stats: comScore


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