Topic - Online Video & music
Viral Video Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Successes
It’s time for another Viral Round Up—our weekly look at the latest viral success stories as we attempt to reverse engineer them to see what made them work.
Since I missed last week’s Round Up, we’ll actually look at more videos than normal this week. Call it my tangible apology, like the flowers I sometimes buy my wife.
Warner Music Close To Deal With YouTube For Music Videos
Warner Music Group and YouTube are said to be close to a deal to bring music videos from Warner’s artists back to the video sharing site. You may remember that Warner pulled their artists’ videos in December of 2008 over a licensing rights dispute.
Universal and YouTube Team up for Premium Service – VEVO
What do You get when You cross U(MG) with YouTube? Well aside from a lot of U’s in the sentence you get a premium music and video service.
Universal Music Group (UMG) and YouTube are going to create and launch a new service called VEVO which is set to be a music and video entertainment service that will feature UMG’s premium video content.
Top Music Acts Turn to User Generated Online Video
So, today I saw 2 specific announcements to related to this. The first was an email that I received from Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and the second was an announcement today from Radiohead, who is sponsoring an online contest for fans to produce their next music video.
