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Vevo To Shut Down Site, Giving In To YouTube Empire (rollingstone.com)
Vevo, the video-hosting service founded in 2009 as a joint venture between the big three record companies, is shutting down. The company announced in a blog post Thursday that it is shuttering its mobile apps and website, and that "going forward, Vevo will remain focused on engaging the biggest audiences and pursuing growth opportunities." Vevo is almost entirely succumbing to YouTube. Rolling Stone reports: The major record labels set up Vevo -- an abbreviation for "video evolution" -- in 2009 as a designated streaming service for music videos that would ideally bring in greater revenue from more high-end advertisers. Via a distribution deal with YouTube, it received a cut of revenue from putting its music videos on the Google-owned site. But YouTube's might has grown: The video-streaming service recently took Vevo's branding off its music videos, while also securing permission under a new licensing deal to sell Vevo's clips directly to advertisers, cutting out the smaller company's sales force. Though Vevo has been trying to peel away from its dependence on YouTube by touting its own suite of apps and offerings for years, it seems those efforts haven't been met with much success. "Our catalog of premium music videos and original content will continue to reach a growing audience on YouTube and we are exploring ways to work with additional platforms to further expand access to Vevo's content," the company said in its blog post. Vevo users on its website and Android, iOS and Windows Mobile apps will receive a tool to migrate their playlists to YouTube.
After Google's extremely heavy-handed demonitization and de-platforming of content producers that simply violate their increasingly puritan ideas of Political Correctness (viz, Dennis Prager's Prager U, etc.), I was really hoping to see the alternative video sites like Vevo start to take up the slack.
With the death of Vevo, which was clearly one of YouTube's largest viable competitors, does a free and open video platform alternative to YouTube even exist anymore? (Seriously, I want answers/suggestions here...)
"The future's good and the present is nothing to sneeze at." - Roblimo's last
Whenever a service shuts down somebody always has to post that they've never heard of it. In this thread I shall be that person.
The Google-apolypse... is real. Sarah Conner called out Sky-net but Alphabet, INC... got there first it seems.
=P
Vevo had a video-hosting website? Never heard about it.
Or maybe it was just *that* transparent. Dog whistles don't work so well when everyone can hear them.
The Internet is 99.9% television.
Don't worry, the free market will fix this.
Oh, wait...
As per all Youtube articles the past few months, we NEED a competitor.
I do very much wish, these smaller groups would band together with a porn group or something and make an alternative. Youtube continues to censor people who don't fit the current groupthink narrative.
While "SJW values" are infact generally a positive thing for the world, heavy handed pushing of them, 'opposite racism' (fuck whitey) and what have you is becoming quite excessive across the Internet. Main issues being people like Twitter, Youtube are /almost/ *entirely fine* with people outright saying deplorable things about whites and or males, but if you say something even remotely controversial in another direction you're taken offline. It need not even be harmful or racist, just to be perceived as against the current hard left groupthink.
Youtube is regularly censoring people like this. CountDankula for example made a particularly hysterical mockery video of his pet Pug doing a nazi salute when he says "seig heil" to the pug. Is it dark humour? Hell yes. Is it utterly hilarious? I believe so.
Monty Python, Mel Brooks would've done that kind of thing without an issue.
Long story short is people on the Youtube platform, who have built an ongoing living and income can be destroyed at the drop of a hat, due to algorithm changes and censorship. Be it the visibility of your videos or just outright de-monetization (but Google will gladly still run ads on the video, just the person who created it, doesn't get a thing)
I don't think we need a group of gentlemen (or women) in white bedsheets saying "we must kill all the " but there's certainly a line of centrist (not even right wing) talk which is being suppressed. Because if you're not far left nowadays, YOU'RE A NAZI.
Long story short. We need a competitor, to keep Google in shape and that's going to require some serious resources unfortunately.
It wasn't a separate video site -- it hosted all its videos on YouTube. Most recording artists would have a VEVO channel, but they were also just part of the normal YouTube search results. What Vevo did beyond that was have branded mobile apps that were gateways to *only* their content on YouTube. For some reason only known to them they thought this would let them charge a premium to advertisers in their apps. But as long as their videos were also available as part of the broader YouTube, there was really no reason to bother with their apps. Vevo has nothing to do with Vimeo, DailyMotion or any other video hosting site. It was strictly a branding exercise.
GDPR shaking out zombie companies?
FUCK youtube and their geoblocking bullshit.
At least when Google took me to Vimeo the fucking videos WORKED.
www.vevo.com. Looks separate to me.
You're thinking about Vimeo.
This is about Vevo.
If it draws views, it's good for ad revenue. If advertisers don't want to be associated with the vids, that's too bad. They're already associated with scams and malware, so they might as well be associated with the nazis.
Vevo never did have much content to keep me coming back to it.
So the article mentions that one thing Vevo tried to do was push their own apps. This is a major part of the problem. Every streaming service or streaming service wannabe uses their own app. Netflix, Hulu, Vevo, every network, damn near every radio station, hell even my local gas station wants me to down load their app.
Enough already, I'm not going to install a dozen pieces of invasive, spying software to get some media or learn about great deals at my local store.
Time has come for the media companies to do one of two things:
1. Coordinate on a single "tuner" application which provides each media company with different channels. Basically an app that acts like a cable box
or
2. Just make the content usable in a HTML5 standards compliant browser.
I'm willing to use the #1 option and would even be willing to purchase, at a reasonable price, individual streams to make up my "package" allowing me to dump cable and the 40 shopping channels and 60 sports channels that I never watch, but I'm not going to download your custom crappy app.
So for now I'll watch videos on YouTube in my browser and I'll watch my one paid Netflix stream.
I feel like his comments would actually be somewhat topical for this article.
No shit. Linux community can't talk about Google enough. It's fucking sad.
Not surprising.
systemDicks loving SJWs have taken over pretty much the whole community, short of the kernel itself.
It's only a matter of time before Linux is pozzed to death.
What is it with bizarrely negative anti-Google summaries lately? "Give into the Youtube Empire?" What did they give into? "Youtube Empire"? Very sly using the phrase "Empire" to give a negative slant against Youtube. Consider the reality: 1. The Youtube channels previously managed by VEVO have returned to their respective artists (e.g. TaylorSwiftVEVO is now TaylorSwift) 2. The Youtube artists with VEVO-branded music videos are still with their respective VEVO-owned labels (using Taylor Swift as an example again - RCA, which in turn is Sony.) 3. Therefore, the status qo is maintained. There are two real questions: 1. How much of the artists' videos were produced in part or in whole by VEVO money? 2. How much (if anything) will artists now be able to make off legacy and future video monetization? My head hurts from the stupid, sensationalist, clickbaity trash that media has become.
Except that you are not seeing things "for what they are". But I get the feeling that over the coarse of this year you are going to see things "for what they are" even if you are kicking and screaming the entire way through. The jig is up commie.
"....receive a tool to migrate their playlists to YouTube...."
Sure, which then gets removed entirely due to Google's draconian "rules".
We are doomed!