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Google Strikes a Deal with BBC and other Media Companies

March 2nd, 2007
3 Comments Written by Ashley


BBC-YouTubeGoogle has yet to score any big deals with major studios and networks, but they’re making progress with other media companies. In the beginning of February, YouTube felt a slap in the face as Viacom demanded that they remove 100,000 videos belonging to their networks.

Viacom recently announced that after the YouTube debacle, traffic to their networks rose over the last month, and that they’re “heartened by the broad industry support” for demanding that YouTube remove the clips.

YouTube is moving on, and according to The New York Times, they’re forming some smaller, and hopefully promising partnerships with other media companies. One such example is the National Basketball Association.  The NBA channel will show clips from different basketball games that fans will be able to go and watch.

According to YouTube, they say they’re partnering with 200 different media companies each courter.  Besides the NBA recently, they’ve also struck a deal with BBC.

BBC says that their deal with YouTube will be a “promotional vehicle” for them. There will be three channels, one for news, and two for entertainment, and BBC will get a portion of the advertising revenue generated from those channels.

So while YouTube hasn’t struck business with any of the major studios, they’re still taking steps (baby steps) towards providing quality, legal content.

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  1. March 2nd, 2007 at 2:45 pm Richard Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    I would not call the BBC a small media group maybe in America with “BBC America” it is but in other countries like England its one of the biggest media groups

    Richard

  2. March 2nd, 2007 at 2:53 pm Ashley (Author) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    I guess I wasn’t very clear. By small I meant the NBA that I mentioned, and by “other” I mean BBC. It is a rather large media group. I might need to re-word it…

  3. March 2nd, 2007 at 3:07 pm Richard Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Ashley wrote:
    I guess I wasn’t very clear. By small I meant the NBA that I mentioned, and by “other” I mean BBC. It is a rather large media group. I might need to re-word it…

    Based my posted off this -

    “Google has yet to score any big deals with major studios and networks”

    My bad, Sorry - Great Post all the same, must have been me, and how i read the post

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