Tag: CBS

CBS has announced a major new online video strategy called CBS Interactive Audience Network. For now, that means distribution deals with AOL, Microsoft, CNET, Comcast, Joost, Bebo, Brightcove, Netvibes, Sling Media, and Veoh. Curiously absent from the list is YouTube. All of the content, which will include full-length television episodes and video clips will be advertiser-supported. While most of ...

Viacom has been trying to get through to YouTube, spending months of negotiating trying to take clips down from MTV, BET and Paramount. Now apparently Viacom has sent a letter to Google demanding that they take down over 100,000 videos immediately. Viacom is extremely upset that the apparent filtering tools that Google had promised are not doing that great of a job, and unauthorized videos are ...

The Google team is out and knocking at the doors of traditional media outlets trying to get them to supply their content to YouTube in an effort to knock off lawsuits that could begin to sprout up surrounding copyright issues. Google CEO Eric Schmidt and other executives have met with CBS, Viacom, Time Warner, NBC Universal, and News Corp. amongst others talking about offering payments upwards of ...

The rumored Google-YouTube acquisition we talked about last week might imminent--perhaps as imminent as later today, according to the New York Times' DealBook blog. DealBook's Andrew Ross Sorkin writes, "Barring a last-minute snag in the talks, the boards of both Google and YouTube were scheduled to hold separate board meetings on Monday to approve the deal, with an announcement possible after the ...