– YouTube: Comedy legends Monty Python saw DVD sales rise 23,000 percent and their boxed sets rise to number two in Amazon’s Movies and TV bestsellers chart after the troupe launched their own YouTube channel. The sales hike is thanks to YouTube’s click-to-buy e-commerce scheme, which creates links from videos to official sites and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) pages. From YouTube UK’s blog.
— Voom HD: TV producer Voom HD Networks has expanded its content deal with BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) to add programmes from its Rush HD extreme sports channel to Go!View, Sky’s subscription-only VOD channel for Sony (NYSE: SNE) PSPs. Voom added Rush HD to Sky TV in April last year. From Satellitetoday.com.
— Brightcove: Online video platform Brightcove has signed up another client: German sports site SPOX.com will use the company’s video technology and advertising network to broadcast live sports including Champions League and English Premier League football. The content is provided and licensed by German pay-tv operator Premiere, which is also an investor in SPOX.com. Brightcove opened an office in Hamburg in October and has deals with German media such a magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr.
— iTunes HD Apple’s UK store is doing its first HD download-to-buy content. The first series to get the high-def treatment is season five of ABC’s Lost.
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