SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 20, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Topic: Viacom
Viacom To Sign With Joost Over Google’s YouTube
Viacom Charts New Course Online at the Wall Street Journal reports that Viacom announced “broad licensing deal with Joost.” Joost is like YouTube but they specialize in commercial video. The deal allows Joost to include “hundreds of hours of programming from Viacom cable networks such as MTV, Comedy Central and Spike as well as movies […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 15, 2007
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Electronic Frontier Foundation To Protect Some YouTube Users Over Viacom’s DMCA Claims
News.com reports that Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) posted a video over at YouTube named Were You Caught in the Viacom Takedown? In that video the EFF is asking those who have been falsely accused of posting Viacom copyrighted content on YouTube to contact them. As we reported the other week with YouTube Pulls Videos That […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 13, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 9, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
YouTube Pulls Videos That May Not Violate DMCA Law
Friday I reported that Google said they would comply with a demand from Viacom to remove content from YouTube. But how did Viacom determine what was infringing? By way of Techmeme, Jim Moore reports his video of a Sunday night dinner seems to have been yanked due to Viacom simply searching for their trademarks, rather […]
Viacom Tells Google’s YouTube To Remove Videos
News is just coming out that Viacom, the parent company of MTV and Comedy Central, is demanding Google-owned YouTube to remove all of Viacom’s videos. Reuters.com has a brief article explaining that about “100,000 video clips from Viacom-owned properties including MTV Networks and BET has been asked to be removed.” Viacom reportedly claims “1.2 billion […]
Google To Test New Video Ads From BMG and Warner Music Group Over AdSense Network
The Google AdSense blog announced that Google is to test new video ads on the AdSense network from content providers such as Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group. AdWeek reports that the ads are to be tested for four-weeks, and have already begun. InformationWeek informs us that the ads will be “billed on […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 19, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
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 […]