Topic: CBS

Google News Adds News Videos

The Google News blog announced that they are now embedding videos within Google News from several sources. Google News currently syndicates videos from CBS, Reuters, and a number of local Hearst TV stations and uses YouTube’s player to display the videos within the Google News search results. Google says they will continue to add video […]

Microsoft’s Online Ad Unit Revenue Increases 11%

Microsoft announced their first quarter earnings for 2007. The Online Services Business unit, which is comprised of adCenter and other MSN properties, noticed an increase in revenue of 11%, earning $623 million. However, they due to significant investments, the Online Services Business unit lost $200 million this past quarter, which is $176 million more than […]

Danny Sullivan’s Ad Age Column & Fast Company Debate

I’ve been spreading the word about search in print recently and wanted to share more about that. At the end of January, I started doing a regular monthly column in Ad Age on search marketing. Meanwhile, this month I took part in a Fast Company debate about Google. For those interested, more on both below.

Google’s YouTube & CBS Deal Caves?

Possible YouTube deal with CBS unravels – report from Reuters cites the Wall Street Journal reporting that CBS and Google have been in discussions to form some sort of agreement over displaying CBS’s video content at YouTube. The article says the “two companies had been closing in on a multi-year deal” and included in the […]

Fury Over Google’s Self Promotion & Wishing For Perspective

It feels like a bad week to be Google. Honestly, if there’s a tipping point, the freak-out that they’ve become the evil company they said they didn’t want to be seems to have arrived. Goodness knows there’s plenty to be concerned about with Google, as with any large powerful company. The entire Google could become […]

YouTube’s Growth Worries Media Giants

YouTube brings out media giants’ competitive claws from the International Herald Tribune takes a look at how YouTube is threatening the large media companies, such as NBC, News Corp., Viacom and CBS. As YouTube continues to grow, especially with the $1.65 billion acquisition by Google, these media companies are now having second thoughts about distributing […]

Google Ran Out Of Radio Ad Inventory Already

MarketWatch reports that Google does not have enough airtime inventory to run the test audio ad campaigns they want to run in 2007. Reportedly, Google is currently in negotiations with CBS, to buy some of their ad time. Jordan Rohan of RBC Capital Markets said that without enough ad inventory, Google won’t be able to […]