Tag: COMEDYCENTRAL

Everybody loves the idea of Hulu, but a series of disappointing decisions and problems with content providers keep plaguing the service. Hulu is U.S.-only, it's never gotten along well with anyone who wanted to provide a nicer client app for it (check out the Hulu/Boxee saga, which eventually landed in front of Congress), it's not available on major mobile devices because it's stuck with Flash, ...

Viacom's strategy of providing an immersive entertainment experience will now be monetized throughout their portfolio of properties with Yahoo's new Panama ad platform. In this ad deal, Yahoo's newly launched search marketing platform will be the exclusive provider of all contextual and sponsored search ads for a first run of 33 Viacom sites, with the strong potential to expand to another 140 ...

Cartoon Network's Adult Swim has a rather bizarre game on their website called 5 Minutes to Kill Yourself. The premise should make plenty of sense to any cubicle warrior. Our protagonist is sitting at his computer when he declares that he will kill himself if he gets one more meeting request. A moment later, he's informed of a meeting in 5 minutes. That gives you 5 minutes to solve his problem. ...

Torrentfreak is reporting that BitTorrent has struck deals with several entertainment companies including 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks (Comedy Central, MTV etc.), Palm Pictures and Starz Media, which will make those companies' movies and television shows available in BitTorrent's upcoming download store. Among the properties named are ...

A few days after YouTube yanked a bunch of copyright-infringing clips at the request of Viacom-owned Comedy Central, Adweek reports that the two companies are getting chummy, and YouTube has reposted an unspecified number of the offending videos. Quoth a Viacom rep: "We want our audiences to be able to access our programming on every platform and we're interested in having it live on all forms of ...