Vevo’s newest offering may seem a big of a throwback: The on-demand music video platform launched a curated live stream that looks and feels like MTV – but is all about devices. Read more at paidContent »
YouTube is about to take a stake in Vevo, according to multiple reports. That would be a smart move, because it would help YouTube to hold on to more than half a billion views a month. Read more at paidContent »
Netflix has added dozens of concert videos and music documentaries from artists like Alice Cooper, Jethro Tull, Ray Charles, Deep Purple, Korn, The Beatles and others to its catalog. Does this mean that Netflix is now going to compete with sites like Wolfgang’s Vault or Vevo? Read more »
Connectivity changes everything. That’s the credo driving just about every corner of our day-to-day lives. As human beings, we are now connected to one another through not just our social networks but also our cars, the books we read, the albums we download and even our own health and wellness habits (to name just a few areas). With that in mind, GigaOM Pro has singled out certain areas in the technology industry where we see this shift to constant connectivity taking place most drastically. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Vevo gets into the real-time collaborative media consumption game with a new feature called Vevo Rooms that allows music fans to program playlists and chat with one another while they’re watching music videos together, Turntable.fm-style. Vevo Rooms is launched in collaboration with Chill. Read more »
Pandora has established itself as the leading personalized radio service online. A new breed of services is now challenging Pandora by mashing up videos from around the web to personalized video streams, all without spending an arm and a leg on licensing. Read more »
Dragontape, which enables web and iPad users to create playlists of videos and songs from YouTube and SoundCloud and share them, released an iPhone app with the same functionality this week. The app makes the technology even more portable, while opening up to more users. Read more »
Don’t know what to say to express your feelings? Then how about using a song, or even better, a music video hosted on YouTube? Muzeit makes it easy to take snippets from these videos and send them as personal messages to Facebook friends and Twitter followers. Read more »
Vevo will soon be available in the U.K., and the music video platform is already looking to expand into additional international markets, with the Middle East being on top of the list. So why can Vevo pull off what Hulu and Netflix can’t? Read more »
The rising popularity of music videos online has made discovering classic viral videos tougher than it used to be. Which means that when you see something called Indian Pole Gymnastics climbing the viral video charts, you know you’re in for something special. Read more »
Music videos are extremely popular on YouTube, so it should come as no surprise that the site would seek to increase engagement of its music-loving audience by launching a new landing page for music videos, with curated playlists and the ability to create on-the-fly music mixes. Read more »
Justin Bieber’s now got the edge over Lady Gaga. Bieber’s musical collaboration with rapper Ludacris, Baby, has just passed Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance as the most-watched video of all time on YouTube. Its views are now at 246.3 million, beating out Gaga by about 600,000. Read more »
Twitter users are way more engaged with music videos than average web surfers, new stats from Brightcove show. A user that stumbles across a music video via Twitter watches two and a half minutes of the clip, on average, before clicking away. One who finds music […] Read more »
Okay, so last week I kvetched about OK Go’s newest video, which is visually awesome but isn’t much of an actual music video, especially since there’s no real effort being made to tell a story. This week, wow: Lady Gaga, with guest collaborator Beyonce, has gone […] Read more »
The folks behind the music video jukebox Sonicswap are at it again, this time launching what could soon be every Nexus One user’s best friend. Tunevision compiles music video playlists based on your Last.fm, iTunes or Sonicswap usage data — users can also start from scratch […] Read more »
Vevo is working on an application that will bring its music videos into people’s living rooms through Boxee’s media center software and its soon-to-be-released Boxee Box set-top device, according to Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff. By doing so, the joint venture seeks to create even greater reach […] Read more »
Music videos from EMI will be distributed worldwide beginning in April, through a deal that it struck with online video firm Dailymotion. While EMI has landed music video distribution deals with Hulu and Vevo in the U.S., Dailymotion will give it global reach, enabling it company […] Read more »
With a new test page at YouTube’s TestTube labs, the online video site could be looking at improving related music video results while also allowing its users to create playlists of the videos they enjoy. The creatively named “YouTube Music Discovery Project and Playlist Creation Tool,” […] Read more »
If Vevo is supposed to be the future of the music industry, that future has gotten off to a slow and ignominious start. Apparently Vevo’s servers are still hungover from a wild night of partying with Bono, Adam Lambert, Mariah Carey, and Lady Gaga, because it’s […] Read more »
Vevo said today it’s signed up EMI Music, adding even more videos to its soon-to-be launched online music video site. With the addition of EMI, Vevo will have three of the four top recording labels in its stable, with Warner Music Group being the only holdout. […] Read more »
