Comments on: Labels Profited Directly from YouTube Buy

By: NewTeeVee » EMI Finally Partners with YouTube

NewTeeVee » EMI Finally Partners with YouTube — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:30:46 +0000

[...] label to partner with YouTube to share audio and video recordings. Warner, Universal, and Sony BMG had taken equity stakes in YouTube last fall just prior to it being bought by Google, alongside similar partnerships with [...]

By: GigaOM ” Labels Profited Directly from YouTube Buy

GigaOM ” Labels Profited Directly from YouTube Buy — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:30:16 +0000

[...] GigaOM ” Labels Profited Directly from YouTube Buy … New York Times reports that YouTube gave each label an equity stake … A fine parody of YouTube video removal policy. Eric Schmidt admits we’re arrogant’ … [...]

By: pwb

pwb — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:32:29 +0000

“The big thing is their request that YouTube implement pre-screening, which would be an operationally speaking near-impossibility for them.”

Actually, with Mechnical Turk or an equivalent, it would be pretty easy and not too expensive.

By: Chris D

Chris D — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:46:06 +0000

Who cares about the record labels doing a “backroom deal” with YouTube. The people that are going to nail YouTube are the TV and Movie industries. With this latest Japanesse TV broadcaster request to remove 30k of videos, maybe the beginning rounds are being shot off. The big thing is their request that YouTube implement pre-screening, which would be an operationally speaking near-impossibility for them.

By: broadstuff

broadstuff — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:44:43 +0000

Bubble Economics…those backroom deals are back…

So thats how they did the deals so quickly…there I was thinking the YouTube dealmeisters were dealmaking superheroes when it was good old…ummmm - "unique consideration" - all along. Patrick's Razor - that the most cynical explanation is the…

By: ?

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:10:07 +0000

WOW! C-SPAN(Tube) channel is getting interesting! Last month, HP, and now coming soon Google-YouTube!

By: Perceptric Forum

Perceptric Forum — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:45:04 +0000

The Real YouTube Deal…

The news is now out… Just before the GooTube deal went down, YouTube carved off equity chunks for a number of the major music labels to make their problems go away… and the value of each of the chunks: $50million. Nice work for the labels. They l…

By: Sramana Mitra

Sramana Mitra — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:54:25 +0000

I wonder if SEC's witch hunt is going to start addressing deals like these as well, at a later date!

The Options back-dating was common practice at one time for which lots of top executives are now getting dinged. Frank Quattrone had been a practitioner of a common "reserve shares" sharing practice. All those mechanisms have now become illegal.

Will such conflict-of-interest deals also become illegal?

By: Ask Dave Taylor!

Ask Dave Taylor! — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:18:07 +0000

How do I add spacing to images in my RSS feed?…

I'm pulling out my hair! I want to include images in my blog entries and have those images show up in the RSS feed too, but either I end up with no image showing up at all, or I end up with the text abutting the image, which looks terrible. What's th…

By: neurokinetikz

neurokinetikz — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:34:22 +0000

Wow. Now things are beginning to make sense with the lawsuit against Bolt and Grouper. Equity from those companies, I presume, would be far less desirable than Google/YouTube. Thus the lawsuits to scare them into either giving away a larger chunk of their equity or a generous cash payout/revenue share.