YouTube与索尼等公司合作提供全长电影电视剧
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此次合作涉及到数千集电视剧和数百部电影,但这些内容仅限于美国市场。YouTube高管在电话会议上称,为便于合作,YouTube将对网站进行重新设计,增加两个新标签。
“显示”(Shows)标签允许用户根据类别、网络、标题和观看频率等标准对内容进行分类,“注册”(Subscriptions)标签允许用户在登录后根据自己喜爱的作者进行分类。
YouTube此次的内容合作对象包括索尼电影公司、美国哥伦比亚广播公司(CBS)、米高梅(MGM)、狮门影业、Starz和BBC(英国广播公司)等,其中与索尼电影公司的合作最值得关注,因为索尼电影公司同意为YouTube提供一些全长电视剧和电影,如《霹雳娇娃》(Charlie's Angels)和《青青珊瑚岛》(The Blue Lagoon)等。做为回报,YouTube同意使用索尼的播放器播放这些电影,并且由索尼控制相关广告。
周四,谷歌CEO埃里克·施密特(Eric Schmidt)在公司财报电话会议上表示,YouTube将来可能采取收费模式,如小额支付(micropayments)或其他注册模式,但首先考虑的是广告模式。
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文章出处:新浪科技
作者:李明
YouTube和环球音乐集团联推Vevo.com
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YouTube和环球音乐集团今天发表声明称,Vevo网站将在今年晚些时候推出,以音乐和音乐视频为特点,环球音乐集团将在该网站上贴出其音乐视频的完整目录。
根据协议,双方将分享Vevo.com以及YouTube上Vevo频道的广告营收。Vevo频道是YouTube收视率最高的频道,总浏览量约为35亿次。
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文章出处:新浪科技
作者:唐风
谷歌CEO施密特8年业绩分析:收购YouTube是败局
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随着谷歌增长的最终放缓(已开始裁员),有人提出质疑:施密特究竟为谷歌做了什么,为什么不是另一位颇具能力的CEO执掌谷歌?换句话说,是施密特确实出色,还是他正好在适当的时候坐了适当的位置?
没有施密特,谷歌的发展轨迹究竟怎样我们无从可考,但将谷歌从一个芝麻大的小企业带成全球性的跨国大公司,这也算是丰功伟绩,并且施密特其间也扮演了相当重要的角色。但需要指出的是,当施密特就任前,谷歌产品和业务就显示了强大优势,所以谷歌的成功是轻而易举之事。
在此,就我们所掌握的情况,分析一下施密特在职权内的业绩表现:
1、营收来源。今年是谷歌成立10年,也是施密特上任第八年,谷歌基本上还是一家单一产品盈利性公司,即谷歌Adwords,尽管AdSense非常成功,但它的利润率还很低。从营收角度考虑,谷歌的其它所有产品营收都有所下滑,例如:面向线下媒体的广告销售、视频广告、无线产品、面向企业的搜索和应用软件、谷歌Checkout,谷歌的显示广告非常不错,但这是通过收购DoubleClick得来的。换句话说,在就任8年后,埃里克还没有打造一款带来丰厚收入的产品。
2、业务扩张。埃里克就任前七年,谷歌增长迅猛,并且在美国业务持续增长的同时,该公司大力投资国际业务,就此而言,埃里克值得信赖。但埃里克招募员工过多,谷歌也没有以前那样有效运营。要知道,一旦业务扩张,就应该把效率作为头等大事。
3、公司收购。收购DoubleClick看起来是一个聪明的举措,但收购YouTube也许就是一场败局。尽管尝试了多年,谷歌一直未能开发出一款广告客户需要的视频广告产品,而Hulu的跨越式发展迫使谷歌不得不奋起直追。我们预计谷歌还是会依仗YouTube,但后者产品研发和营收水平一直没有给人留下深刻印象。
谷歌一直以来进行的都是小型收购活动,那些小型创业公司在谷歌怀中逐渐死去,人们再也没有听到声响。例如,Jaiku,当时是一家成长迅速的微博,要是谷歌倾注力气,它也许会成为Twitter。看看Blogger,好多年都没有创新了,看看Grandcentral、Feedburner,也没有任何意义。
4、合作交易。谷歌已经签署了两项重大合作协议,一是AOL,一是MySpace,但两个都以失败告终。谷歌业已承认,社交网站还没有真正实现商业化,如果谷歌与MySpace续签协议的话,它可能不会因销售搜索广告而支付后者9亿美元。谷歌收购了AOL 5%的股份,但其战略优势有限。因此,在这两项交易上,谷歌都是玩的防守策略。但谷歌防守什么呢?它担心AOL和MSN联合?
5、新产品开发和未来前景。如果经济回暖,谷歌的核心搜索和广告网络业务会表现不错。同时,谷歌在社交行业作为不大。谷歌引导开发的Open social开放式平台出道时还有些声响,但谷歌希望从中盈利的可能性不大,对于免费开源工具,即使Facebook为盈利绞尽脑汁,但前景不太明朗。
6、无线业务。谷歌的无线业务有可能做大,无论是Android还是无线广告,但Android没有产生多大影响,并且无线广告业务和以前一样少得可怜。我们一直听到的是无线业务将成为谷歌十大支柱业务中的第二大业务,但迄今为止,它的表现令人失望。而与此同时,苹果已经建立了手机平台和新的营收模式,并且把谷歌无线业务发展的苗头压制身下。
总而言之,施密特的遗产有点像eBay前CEO梅格·惠特曼(Meg Whitman)的一样,由于eBay的成功,后者多年来被誉为天才,但她对于公司成功所做的贡献太夸大其词了。对于施密特,和惠特曼一样,他的遗产将取决于他下一步的所作所为。
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文章出处:新浪科技
译者:志伟
YouTube Starts Selling Video Downloads
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Last August, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said his company was still figuring out how to make money with YouTube. By October, Google started to include e-commerce links with YouTube partner videos so that viewers could purchase related products.
Now viewers can purchase the actual videos as downloadable files.
YouTube is allowing a select group of partners to offer their videos as free downloads or as paid downloads through Google Checkout. Its partners have the ability to set prices -- a freedom iTunes content providers desperately want -- and to choose the license they want to apply to their videos.
YouTube has created a new My Purchases tab under the My Videos menu to help users keep track of videos that they've downloaded.
Free video downloads are now available from Stanford, Duke, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UCTV. YouTube partners Khan Academy, Household Hacker, and Pogobat are selling videos through a link that says, "Download this video ($0.99)," just below the left side of videos in their archives.
Downloaded videos are in the MP4 format, which can easily be copied. This is likely to scare away major content providers. But in the absence of big-budget entertainment content, a healthy market for educational videos appears to be taking shape.
For YouTube users seeking to download content that hasn't yet been made available for download, there are already a large number of Web sites, like Vixy.net and Keepvid.com, that allow users to do just that. YouTube videos also can be downloaded using a browser bookmark.
How are other companies trying to make money off of YouTube? InformationWeek has published an independent analysis of this topic. Download the report here (registration required).
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Source:InformationWeek
Copyright © 2009 United Business Media LLC, All rights reserved.
Warner Music videos removed from YouTube
Negotiations broke down last week over licensing fees for Warner's music and videos, say people familiar with the discussions who were not authorized to speak publicly.
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On its blog, YouTube alerted its audience to the collapse in talks, noting that professionally produced music videos and those that fans create using Warner songs would begin to disappear.
It remains unclear whether YouTube or Warner decided to pull the plug.
"Sometimes," wrote YouTube in its online message to users, "if we can't reach acceptable business terms, we must part ways with successful partners."
Warner Music -- home to such acts as Madonna, rapper T.I., Red Hot Chili Peppers and Linkin Park -- issued a brief statement Saturday, saying it was working to find a resolution with YouTube that would return its artists' content to the site.
"Until then, we simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists, songwriters, labels and publishers for the value they provide," Warner said in the statement.
The stalled discussions suggest that Warner is dissatisfied with the revenue stream it gets from YouTube.
Warner was the first of the major labels to strike a licensing deal with YouTube, in 2006. Its executives think its cooperation lent legitimacy to the video website, setting the stage for the $1.65-billion acquisition of YouTube Inc. by search giant Google Inc.
In the original discussions, Warner, Vivendi's Universal Music Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment all received small stakes in YouTube as part of music-video licensing deals.
Under terms of YouTube's contracts, the labels stand to collect either a minimum fee of less than a penny each time a music video is watched or a split of advertising revenue, whichever sum is greater.
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BY Dawn C. Chmielewski - dawn.chmielewski@latimes.com
Source:Los Angeles Times
环球唱片透露已获数千万美元Youtube广告分成
这是Youtube的第一个内容合作伙伴透露收入情况。环球唱片公司数字业务负责人里奥·卡拉雷夫对新闻界表示,Youtube给环球带来了“数千万美元”的收入。
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这位高层表示,Youtube不像单纯为了推广音乐的电台,根据和他们的协议,环球可以分享到源自自身音乐视频的广告收入。这一收入增长迅猛,今年有望比去年增长80%。
除了提供授权的正版视频外,即使是网民上传的盗版环球唱片视频,环球仍然可以获得广告分成。
Youtube网站负责伙伴计划的官员马克西表示,网站将会成为唱片公司的一个良好合作伙伴,让他们推广歌手和音乐,很高兴唱片公司能够取得业绩上的成功。
另据业内人士透露,环球唱片今年有望从各个网站的视频广告分成合作中赚到一亿美元,这些合作伙伴除了Youtube之外,还包括Myspace、iMeem等。当然,最主要的贡献者是Youtube。
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文章出处:搜狐IT
作者:西子晴雪