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No Online Presence
What happens when a company, band, artist, etc. does not maintain an online presence? Well, let’s look at what happened just last week. Most people have seen the musical sensation of Susan Boyle as she sang on “Britain’s Got Talent” and amazed a skeptical crowd. The performance was all over YouTube and estimates are that [...]
New Media
Here are some fun stats from the iPhone, Twitter, and YouTube: The iPhone is about to surpass the 1 billion mark on applications downloaded. As of now, 993 million apps. There is even an application that tracks the number of downloads. Check out this list of Musician Twitterers who have the most followers: 1. Britney [...]
Vevo Music Service
The much awaited online video channel for Universal Music has taken further steps forward. This video channel will be a partnership between YouTube and Universal Music and will live at vevo.com. Universal Music currently has the highest numbers of viewers for a particular YouTube channel. That’s great for Universal, but also a bit of a [...]
Censored YouTube
Google-owned YouTube just removed a number of videos for users within the United Kingdom for artists associated with the Performing Rights Society (PRS). This includes over 60,000 artists. The PRS had a licensing agreement with YouTube that just expired. Apparently, PRS asked for much higher rates this time around. That created a stalemate, and YouTube [...]
MySpace vs. YouTube
Which of the popular sites of MySpace & YouTube garner more listens for popular music? Recent data points to an almost 7 to 1 ratio in favor of MySpace. Now, the comparison is not exactly apples to apples as YouTube is in a video format and most of the MySpace listens occur in only an [...]
New Revenue Streams
In the clear reality of rapidly declining cd sales, we are starting to see little glimpses of revenue streams for the major labels. These new revenue streams were unlikely even a speck of imagination 10 years ago for most of the labels. But just this week, we have seen EMI launch a new website to [...]
YouTube’s Domination
YouTube continues on its amazing rise in viewed videos. For October of this year, they had an astounding 100 million unique users. These users watched a total 5.4 billion videos. Yes, 5.4 billion. During this period, 13.5 billion videos were watched across the web as a whole. That gives YouTube a 40% market share. Next [...]
Hulu Revenue
Hulu, the ad-supported online tv and movie service, is set to quickly reach the revenue level of YouTube. The Financial Times reported that by 2009, Hulu will reach $180 million in ad revenue to tie YouTube. This year, expected revenues are $100 million for YouTube and $70 million for Hulu. Hulu is a joint venture [...]
Your Tube?
YouTube, the massive user-generated streaming video site, is establishing a second life which will be called YouTube Live. Google-owned YouTube will begin to be the generators of the content on the new YouTube Live service, which will begin on November 22nd of this year. The reason behind this new YouTube ‘channel’ is to provide original [...]
YouTube’s $ Machine
YouTube, a unit of Google that cost them $1.65 billion 2 years ago, is considering ways to monetize their runaway popularity. Their method for doing so will be to introduce a new ad format that will contain links to iTunes & AmazonMP3 next to videos containing particular songs. If you like the song, it’s one [...]
