BBC-YouTube Pact Seen As 'Win' for Both
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By JANE WARDELL  LONDON - The British Broadcasting Corp. began showing excerpts from its news and entertainment programs on the YouTube video-sharing Web site Friday, becoming the first international broadcaster to ink a major deal with the Google Inc.-owned portal.
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It's still in the discussion phase, but Google is negotiating with YouTube with an eye to acquiring the popular online video site, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Speculation is rife that Google announcements will include a local version of YouTube for European countries.
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InfoWorld - YouTube&#160;furthered its attempts to offer legitimate footage on its video-sharing Web site this week by announcing deals that will provide users with music video and professional basketball content.
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Google is reported to be in talks to buy popular video-sharing website YouTube for $1.6bn.
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Happy slappers are go! Erstwhile business mobile provider Vodafone is getting down with the kids by doing a deal with YouTube.â¦
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TWO YouTube founders scooped shares worth a total of $650 million (Pounds 330 million) following Google's acquisition of the video sharing site for $1.65 billion late last year.
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YouTube, the popular online video  sharing service, is teaming up with major marketing and media  partners for a competition to discover the most talented  unsigned bands on its site.
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(InfoWorld) - EMI Group's EMI Music will begin making its music video content available on Google's YouTube, the two companies announced Friday. The deal is a win for YouTube, which has seen its supremacy in online video content challenged by upstarts including Joost Operations, which has signed content licensing agreements withÂ CBS BroadcastingÂ andÂ ViacomÂ brands including MTV and Comedy Central. The two companies will share revenue generated from the content, although neither indicated that they planned to charge for its use. They did not specify what the revenue split would be. The companies also alluded to opportunities for users to generate their own content using authorized EMI audio and video, perhaps offering users some type of remix capability, or the ability to create their own videos. However, neither YouTube nor EMI were specific in describing the role or rollout of user-generated content as part of their agreement. They did indicate that EMI artists would receive royalties based on the viewing of their work on YouTube, and that YouTube would assist in creating a monitoring system for that. The move demonstrates that EMI will continue to make its music and video content online in new ways, even in the wake of its Â£2.4 billion ($4.75 billion) acquisition in May by private equity group Terra Firma's Maltby EMI, more so than other labels, has consistently embraced digital content and online music sales. It became the first record company to answer AppleÂ CEOÂ Steve Jobs' call for DRM-free downloads, offering music from artists in its catalog, including Norah Jones, Coldplay, and The Rolling Stones, on the iTunes Music Store for $1.29 each, a $0.30 premium over other tracks that include DRM restrictions. Â ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Britain's publicly funded broadcaster the BBC said on Sunday it is in talks with several U.S. cable companies to distribute its BBC World news channel.
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Yahoo Inc. said on Friday that it will offer BBC News video on its news site through an agreement with ABC News.
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(InfoWorld) - YouTubeÂ furthered its attempts to offer legitimate footage on its video-sharing Web site this week by announcing deals that will provide users with music video and professional basketball content. On Tuesday, YouTube and Wind-up Records, a division of Wind-up Entertainment, said that a majority of Wind-up's music videos will be shown on the site. The arrangement also allows for the use of certain preselected music tracks in user-created videos. Artists signed to the label include Evanescence and Scott Strapp, who was the lead singer of the band Creed. As with its other media partners, a revenue-sharing model will give both companies money from the advertising sold on the pages that display Wind-up's content. This follows Monday's announcement that the National Basketball Association has teamed with YouTube to create an "NBA Channel" on the site. As of Monday, users can view league-approved NBA content on the channel. The material will come from NBA.com's own video selections and will include certain selected plays and behind-the-scenes footage. While users will still be allowed to upload NBA material to the site, the arrangement allows the league to call for the removal of some material. In the spirit of the user-generated content movement that is part of "Web 2.0," users can also submit videos of their basketball skills. Site visitors will judge the videos and the winners will be compiled and shown in a weekly highlight video. The profit-sharing arrangement also extends to this deal, according to the NBA. The moves are part of a larger effort YouTube has made to resolve intellectual-property disputes over copyright material users upload to the site. Copyright holders have demanded that YouTube remove the material, while in other situations, the video's owners and YouTube have reached agreements that allow content to remain on the site. YouTube, founded in 2005, began experiencing fallout from hosting copyright video around the timeÂ Google announced it was purchasing the siteÂ for $1.65 billion in October 2006. Earlier this month, YouTube complied withÂ a request from Viacom International to remove over 100,000 of its clips, including content from MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central, and Paramount Pictures. In January, YouTube deleted clips from News Corp.'s Fox television division afterÂ the media company subpoenaed the site and asked for the content's removalÂ in addition to information on who posted the material. This came after a bout with a group of Japanese copyright holders in October that resulted inÂ the removal of approximately 30,000 clips. YouTube holds content deals with Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, CBS, Warner Music Group, NBC, and the National Hockey League. Â
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Users of YouTube's online video service will soon be able to view news, TV series, documentaries and other programs from the BBC.
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NBC and Fox are set to launch an advertising-supported online video site that hosts programming from varied entertainment companies in a bid to seize viewers from Google Inc.'s YouTube, the broadcasters said.
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The BBC will soon offer trailers, classic clips and news on Google's YouTube video sharing website.
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Goo Goo Ga-Tube Google is close to buying YouTube for $1.6bn, according to reports. Props for the scoop, if the talks pan out, go to TechCrunch, the Red Herring of the Web 2.0 Generation, which today reported this "completely Unsubstantiated Google/YouTube Rumor". The WSJ today also says that Google and YouTube are negotiating and mention $1.6bn as the price. But this could merely mean that the two publications have the same source.â¦
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Starting Friday, 30 videos from BBC News would be made available on the Yahoo News Web site. The agreement was reached with ABC News, BBC's broadband content representative in the US.