Tag: VIACOM

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 ...

Last we checked in on Facebook it was reportedly in serious talks with Yahoo! for a billion-dollar buy-out. This week comes news that Viacom, long considered a prime candidate for ownership of Facebook after its "humiliating" loss to News Corp. in the battle for Myspace, has ruled out bidding for the booming social networking site. Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone recently told Charlie Rose that ...

Yahoo! and Facebook are back talking, and it looks like the deal is approaching the $1 billion mark. Facebook recently held discussions with Microsoft and Viacom about possible takeovers, and they both bombed out. The 22 year old founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has shied away from selling because he is focused on building the company for the long term. Viacom had offered $750 million earlier this year, ...

Universal Music has accused YouTube and MySpace of infringing on the rights of their artists music videos during an investors conference. Universal's chief executive stated that the two companies owed them tens of millions of dollars in copyright infringement money. Universal is expected to release a statement about how they will deal with the infringers in due time. YouTube has been known to ...

Google has started dropping some tests of their streaming video ads and video content from the recent deal with Viacom's MTV Networks. The deal sees MTV Networks providing content for the ads that will run in place of Google's AdWords on websites. Through the ads, Viacom can showcase clips of such premium programs as SpongeBob SquarePants, Laguna Beach, The Real OC, and the MTV Video Awards. ...

Google is hitting up Viacom's MTV Networks to try out some video ad testing using the network's content. The deal was sparked due to the recent great demand for online video through broadband connections. Google will utilize two to four minute clips promoting the shows in their Video AdSense experiment. The mini ads will be clips of SpongeBob, Laguna Beach, The Real OC, and the MTV Video Music ...

What do you do when you're a huge media conglomerate and the huge media conglomerate across the street owns the biggest social networking site in town? You buy the next biggest social networking site in town, of course! Okay, so Bebo isn't actually the second-biggest social networking site in the U.S. (that would be Facebook, according to Hitwise), but it's pretty darn huge, and in a move ...

Everybody wants in on the act, don't they? Viacom, parent company of things like CBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon now wants in on this social networking thing they've been hearing about. I guess MySpace, Youtube, and the like finally got on their radar huh? The article on Yahoo news is full of the classic big-media snippets we've come to hear from a giant media conglomerate trying to pull their pants ...