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TV Networks Discussing YouTube Rival

Posted by Zonk on from the hard-to-get-that-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Reuters is carrying a story indicating that NBC, CBS, Fox, and Viacom are considering banding together to work on a competitive video-hosting site. The goal would be to provide an alternative to Google's YouTube, and presumably direct some revenue in their direction." From the article: "While a deal is still far off, the four media companies envision a jointly owned site that would be the primary Web source for videos from their television networks, the paper said in an online report on Wsj.com, citing people close to the situation. The companies aim to cash in on the fast-growing market of Web video advertising and have also discussed building a Web video player that could play clips, the Journal said. "

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  1. Exclusive content? by SilentOneNCW · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't think the property of *exclusive content* applies to the internet. Digital information can be too easily copied for any exclusive content to stay exclusive for long.

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    1. Re:Exclusive content? by Threni · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I think it'll be the first step in an effort to remove their stuff from the 'net. Once they're up and running, they'll have a stronger claim that YouTube is a rival, hosting their IP, for free, and doing little to stop it.

      Presumably they'll also be selling their stuff over the net?

  2. Re:"and presumably direct some revenue" by Webs+101 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You get 100 million hits a day ( http://www.onlinereporter.com/article.php?article_ id=7234 ) and the ad revenue starts to add up.

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  3. Wow, this is pretty interesting... by zappepcs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    First, Cuban says Google is stupid for buying YouTube, now all the megamediagiants want to band together to try to beat Google at its own game? Google has some work cut out for it... maybe?

    If you consider that **AA wants to pull the rug out from under Google et al, now MS is trying their hand at the online video thing... then along comes johnny mediagiant to try too.

    Perhaps there is more to this free internet videos thing after all?

    How can the MPAA continue to want to control content and then want to play in the same space as Google?

    The only thing I'm certain of is that this could be very interesting...

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  4. Competing with Apple? by jfengel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are they really competing with YouTube? Rather, why are they competing with Apple? Apple is already selling (some of) their shows, and they're apparently pulling in mad bank for it.