Like an MTV you’d actually enjoy: Shuffler.fm launches curated music video channels
ShufflerTV relies on some of the web’s leading voices in music to curate music video channels. The result looks as good as it sounds. Read more at paidContent »
Vevo’s new live TV channel: it’s all about devices
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 investing in Vevo? That’s smart.
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 »
Vevo rolls out new video and artist pages, vows to take on connected TVs next
Music video platform Vevo will give itself a visual refresh Thursday, decluttering its video watch pages and adding a whole new artist page. Those changes were driven by the company’s new product team, which traded New York’s glitz for a low-key startup experience in San Francisco. Read more »
Universal Music agrees to pay indie artists Vevo royalties
The world’s biggest music label has always regarded music videos as promotional tools. But now that Vevo, the music video platform Universal co-owns with Sony, is making $150 million a year, the label agrees the indie artists who render these works deserve compensation. Read more at paidContent »
Vevo viewers down 20% year-to-year
Once the fastest growing content supplier in the online video business, Vevo has seen its U.S. internet audience shrink by 20 percent over the last year, according to numbers released Monday by comScore. The measurement, however, does not reflect migration to mobile platforms. Read more at paidContent »
Netflix adds Queen, Korn, The Beatles, Nirvana & more
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 »
Video: Vevo To Launch In Six More Countries, CEO Caraeff Says
The music distributor and service Vevo plans to triple its global footprint in 2012, CEO Rio Caraeff tells paidContent while answering quest… Read more at paidContent »
Brands invade Facebook Timeline with new wave of apps
Brands like Nike, Vevo and Fandango now have a new way to integrate into Facebook Timeline. At an event hosted by Facebook in Austin at the South by Southwest festival on Monday, big and small brands mingled and demoed the new wave of Timeline apps. Read more »
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10 ways big data changes everything
The emergence of the big data phenomenon is fundamentally changing everything from the way companies operate to the way people interact to how the world deals with outbreaks of infectious diseases. Here we highlight 10 case studies illustrating how big data is changing the world. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Bronfman: Spotify is a real and growing revenue stream
Warner Music Group Chairman Edgar Bronfman, Jr. is a big fan of Spotify. In fact, at the D:Dive Into Media conference, the music mogul touted the music streaming service as a complementary service on top of other sales channels. Read more »
ComScore Video Rankings: YouTube Usage Spiked 72 Percent Over 2010
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As it seeks to launch nearly 100 new channels featuring professionally produced video, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) has a key advantage over origina… Read more at paidContent »
Vevo by the numbers: 3.7B views, $100M royalties
Vevo clocked more than 3.6 billion global video views in October, with the average viewer spending 66 minutes per month on the site. That’s a huge success for the music video platform, but one that didn’t come cheap: Vevo paid more than $100 million in royalties. Read more »
Vevo partners with Chill for group chat
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 »
YouTube serves up nearly half of all videos online
Even as online video viewing has expanded, audiences at YouTube continue to outpace the market. The latest evidence? ComScore’s September Video Metrix report, which shows that nearly half of all videos viewed online in September were delivered by the Google-owned online video site. Read more »
Where to watch Bonnaroo live online
Want to enjoy all the fun of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival but not suffer through any of the downsides? Then you’re in luck: All major acts of the festival can be watched though a live stream from the comfort of your living room. Read more »
Interview: Vevo’s Caraeff On Music Videos’ Renaissance
Pioneered and perhaps now abandoned by MTV, the music video can be re-invented by the web and location-aware mobile devices, the CEO of musi… Read more at paidContent »
Vevo Goes International, Now in the UK
Vevo has launched into its first international market, announcing Monday that it has expanded availability to U.K. viewers. For online video sites like Hulu, that jump has been seemingly impossible. So how did Vevo do it? By having all the rights it needed from the get-go. Read more »
Muzeit Turns Music Videos Into Love Letters
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 Gets Ready for World Domination
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 »
Vevo Releases Android App, Racks Up 3M Installs on iOS
Vevo’s music videos are coming to Android phones, thanks to a dedicated app released this week. The music video site has had huge success with iOS apps, clocking 3 million installs on iPads, iPhones and iPod touch devices. Connected devices haven’t shown any similar interest yet. Read more »
Rhianna, Eminem & Bieber Making Millions on YouTube?
YouTube’s top earners are Rhianna, Eminem and Justin Bieber, according to new stats from music app maker MYU2B. Each or these artists brings in a million dollars or more through YouTube’s partner program – much to the joy of VEVO, which publishes all of their videos. Read more »
Vevo CEO: Cable Programming ‘Not the Future of Television’
MTV has had decades of success serving up music videos to viewers on cable television, but it’s not for Vevo. At NewTeeVee Live today, Vevo CEO Rio Carareff said it won’t be building a linear cable channel anytime soon, because it’s not “the future of television.” Read more »
Vid Biz: YouTube Topics, Cord Cutting, Vevo Success
On the Net today: Nielsen doesn’t believe in cord cutting, Vevo rocks comScore’s charts, YouTube lets you search by topic, and more. Read more »
Justin Bieber Is Now a YouTube Billionaire
It doesn’t really get any bigger than this in the world of YouTube stardom: Justin Bieber announced via Twitter today that he clocked more than a billion video views on YouTube. He’s the second musician ever to break the billion, closely following Lady Gaga’s online success. Read more »
The Lady Gaga v. Justin Bieber Battle Is Still a Draw
In the battle for the top of the YouTube charts, Lady Gaga has set a new record, breaking the billion view barrier. But Bieber’s not defeated: Baby‘s still the most-viewed video of all time, and the trailer for his Jon M. Chu-directed biopic just dropped. Read more »
Vid-Biz: Google TV, Samsung, Vevo-MTV
Today on the Net: Google TV is getting push-back from broadcasters like ABC, CBS and NBC that are blocking access to their content, Samsung is developing an app framework for TVs and mobile devices and Vevo is turning up the heat on MTV. Read more »
Vid Biz: Blockbuster FAIL, VEVO ‘s New Amigos, Cablevision Blame
Today on the Net: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie thinks Cablevision is at fault for its dispute with Fox, VEVO sings up with Univision and Time Magazine explains how Blockbuster got it all wrong. Read more »
Vevo Brings Music Videos to the iPhone
Vevo released its first mobile app yesterday, making all of its music videos available on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. The release makes music videos from major labels available for the first time on the iPhone, where users previously didn’t have access to them. Read more »
Arcade Fire Live On YouTube Tonight
If you’ve been eagerly awaiting the first entry in Vevo’s live concert series, then your waiting stops very soon. At 10 PM ET/7PM PT tonight, the Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire will kick off the “Unstaged” live music series. Read more »
Vid-Biz: Miramax Sale, Vevo Traffic, My Damn Channel
Today on the Net: The Weinstein Brothers were unable to buy back Miramax from Disney, Vevo’s traffic has grown 62 percent since launch and My Damn Channel has unveiled a lineup of 10 new channels, three of which will debut this summer Read more »
Vevo, YouTube Start a Concert Series; First Up, Arcade Fire
Vevo and YouTube will be pushing deeper into the live music scene with a five-part concert series that will be streamed live online. Their new “Unstaged” live music series will feature artists like John Legend and interactive features, like the ability to switch camera angles. Read more »
Vevo to Push Multiplatform Delivery With Mobile, TV Apps
In just over seven months, Vevo has become one of the largest video distributors in the US, and the premier place for users to watch all their favorite music videos. But Vevo also wants to power music videos on mobile devices and in the living room. Read more »
comScore May Numbers Show Vevo, Facebook Ascending
Online video viewing numbers continue to climb with the passing of time, according to data released today by comScore. Users watched nearly 34 billion videos in May 2010, with both Vevo and Facebook climbing in the ranks. Read more »
Lady Gaga’s Alejandro Premieres on Vevo
The newest music video by pop music sensation/possible crazy person Lady Gaga is a darker spin on her signature “out there” style. While free of product placement (as well as eyeliner) it’s getting a perfectly-executed premiere courtesy of Vevo and YouTube. Read more »
Vid-Biz: Facebook, Vevo, Metacafe
Today on the Net: as traffic at Facebook has grown, so too has the number of unique visitors viewing video on the site; Vevo passes Hulu for unique users in April; and Metacafe raises $5 million in debt to help fund its expansion into new verticals. Read more »
Vid-Biz: April comScore Numbers, Zucker’s Exit Deal, Jobs on Adobe
Today on the Net: comScore’s April numbers show YouTube dominating, Hulu flat and Vevo taking a big leap; NBC chief Jeff Zucker will get a $30-$40 million exit deal after the Comcast deal closes and Steve Jobs says Google and Adobe are picking fights with Apple. Read more »
Vevo Continues to Show M.I.A. Video
The controversy surrounding pop musician M.I.A.’s Born Free video just got a little more interesting: Music video portal Vevo explained in a blog post this morning that it is going to continue to show Born Free “with appropriate messaging for viewers.” But it will turn to […] Read more »
Hulu Numbers Stablize as it Braces for Daily Show Effect
New numbers released by comScore today show record engagement for Hulu in February, with an average of 2.4 hours of video watched by every viewer who tuned into the site’s programming. Hulu’s numbers were still slightly down from December, when it clocked one billion views, but […] Read more »
Twitter Users Can’t Stop the Music Video
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 »
