Viacom in video deal with Joost
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Entertainment giant Viacom is to provide  TV programmes and films to much-hyped online video service Joost.
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Media conglomerate Viacom Inc.  (VIAb.N) said on Tuesday that it was suing Google Inc.   and its Internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than $1  billion over unauthorized use of its programming online.
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Yahoo Inc has agreed to distribute an  online music performance series through a high-definition  channel from Viacom Inc&#39;s MTV, the New York Post reported in  its online edition on Thursday.
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Viacom Inc's MTV Networks Group has  signed deals to make videos available on five online video  services and Comcast Corp's broadband site, as the company aims  to increase its presence on the Web.
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(InfoWorld) - On Friday, media conglomerate Viacom upbraided YouTube for continuing to host throngs of Viacom videos without permission and demanded that over 100,000 of its clips be removed from the popular video-sharing site owned by Google. Viacom, whose properties include MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central, and Paramount Pictures, ran out of patience after months of discussions with Google and YouTube, the company said in a statement. "It has become clear that YouTube is unwilling to come to a fair market agreement that would make Viacom content available to YouTube users," the statement reads. YouTube and Google have failed to deliver efficient filtering tools, allowingÂ "vast amounts" of unauthorized Viacom video to exist on the video-sharing site, the company said. YouTube acknowledged receiving a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) request from Viacom to remove the videos. "It's unfortunate that Viacom will no longer be able to benefit from YouTube's passionate audience, which has helped to promote many of Viacom's shows," YouTube said in a statement, adding that it will comply with the request. Viacom's move is the latest from copyright owners who are upset over the unauthorized uploading and streaming of their videos on YouTube, which is one of the most popular Web sites in the world. The copyright issue has long been a known liability for YouTube. Founded in early 2005, YouTube quickly became the world's most popular video-sharing site, beating established players including Yahoo, Microsoft's Internet unit, AOL, and Google. Impressed with that popularity, Google bought YouTube last November for $1.65 billion in an all-stock transaction, but it put 12.5 percent of the amount in an escrow account for one year to "secure certain indemnification obligations," it said. Since the acquisition, Google and YouTube have been busy negotiating with video content owners and developing technology to detect and remove copyrighted videos uploaded by users without permission. Beyond its attempts to strike deals with corporations, Google has recently also indicated its intent to share revenue with individual content owners. It has also begun integrating YouTube with the similar Google Video service. "We're pushing very, very hard for the success of YouTube as a brand. It has tremendous traction with the demographic that we care about. An awful lot of people are now using YouTube every day in their daily lives," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said this week duringÂ the company's quarterly earnings conference call. Schmidt said Google's primary focus with YouTube is user adoption, while it also experiments with advertising models. YouTube is growing its user base and advertising very fast, to the point that it's now clear to Google that the price it paid for YouTube is clearly justified, Schmidt said. In its statement, Viacom precisely complained that Google is benefitting from its content without providing Viacom with adequate compensation. "YouTube and Google retain all of the revenue generated from this practice without extending fair compensation to the people who have expended all of the effort and cost to create it," Viacom said.
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In an attempt to challenge Google's YouTube, Viacom announces plans to make its videos available on thousands of sites.
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Viacom Inc.  on Friday demanded that Google Inc.'s  online video service YouTube remove more than 100,000 video clips after they failed to reach a distribution agreement.
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Former Cisco executive Mike Volpi is reportedly headed to Joost to be the online video company's next CEO.
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Viacom, whose properties include MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures, ran out of patience after months of discussions with Google and YouTube, the company said in a statement.
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Media conglomerate says it will make an offer for 77.7% of financial news site it still doesn&#39;t own. NEW YORK  - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 18  /PRNewswire/ -- CondeNet, an Internet unit of Conde Nast, has announced the launch of new web video environments on Epicurious.com, MEN.STYLE.COM, and STYLE.COM, in an effort to bring consumers even closer to the latest food and fashion news, features and information.
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Viacom Inc., engaged in a public copyright battle with Google Inc.'s YouTube, has agreed to offer videos to Joost, the Internet video service created by the founders of Skype and Kazaa.
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The Minisode Network, which  presents shortened episodes of classic TV shows online, is set  to expand its distribution Monday to include Web channels on  AOL, Joost and Crackle, Sony's user-generated video site.
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The company's free Web-based video editing and "remixing" technology is now being used on the YouTube and MTV.com Web sites.
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SAN FRANCISCO  -  Days after clashing with Google's YouTube in a public spat over copyright protection, Viacom has found a new partner to air its content online.  On Tuesday, the media conglomerate said it had agreed to offer hundreds of hours of programming to Joost, an Internet video service created by the founders of Kazaa file-sharing software and eBay's Skype Internet calling. Joost is now being tested before wider release by midyear.
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P2P telly gets arty Bablegum, the P2P internet TV platform which is set to go head to head with Joost this summer, has signed up a raft of new independent content providers.â¦
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Viacom's MTV Networks Group has signed deals to make videos available on five online video services and Comcast Corp's broadband site, as the company aims to increase its presence on the Web.