Pakistanis angry over detentions in Times Sq. case Monday, May 24, 2010
ISLAMABAD – Relatives of three men detained by Pakistan for alleged links to the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing say the men are innocent.
They
AFP - Thursday, August 6TAIPEI (AFP) - - Taiwan's Beijing-friendly government on Wednesday denied boycotting an Australian film festival amid a row over the e
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a double blow on Thursday as a senior party ally in east German
Minister seeks closure of anti-Berlusconi websites Wednesday, December 16, 2009
ROME (AFP) - – The Italian government moved Tuesday to close down Internet sites encouraging further violence against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who
By ELAINE KURTENBACH,AP Business Writer AP - Wednesday, March 18SHANGHAI - Asia's stock market rally seemed to be running out of steam Wednesday, despite an
My Profile
Top News
Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day.
Subscribe
You are here:
Home
>
News
>
Entertainment
>
Article
Home
Business & Finance
News
U.S.
Politics
International
Technology
Entertainment
Film
Music
People
Television
Arts
Industry
Sports
Lifestyle
Oddly Enough
Health
Science
Special Coverage
Video
Pictures
Your View
The Great Debate
Blogs
Weather
Reader Feedback
Do More With Reuters
RSS
Widgets
Mobile
Podcasts
Newsletters
Your View
Make Reuters My Homepage
Partner Services
CareerBuilder
Affiliate Network
Professional Products
Support (Customer Zone)
Reuters Media
Financial Products
About Thomson Reuters
YouTube signs deal to feature Time Warner cable shows
Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:23pm EDT
Email | Print |
Share
| Reprints | Single Page
[-]
Text
[+]
By Yinka Adegoke
NEW YORK (Reuters) - YouTube has signed a deal with Time Warner Inc to feature program clips from a range of its cable networks, including CNN, Cartoon Network and TNT, the online video site said on Wednesday.
The move is the latest by the Google Inc-owned video service to increase the range of video clips through which it can sell advertising as it tries to improve its chances of becoming profitable in the near term.
Currently, most YouTube clips are uploaded by users. But marketers are reluctant to advertise alongside so-called user generated content, fearing the clips will either look unprofessional or feature inappropriate subject matter.
No financial details of the deal with Time Warner were disclosed but both sides will share advertising revenue.
Some Time Warner-owned short-form program clips are already available on YouTube including HBO promotional videos and CNN International news outside the United States.
The new deal will expand the Time Warner material on YouTube, adding clips from programs featured on TV networks CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, The CW, and TNT as well as some Warner Brothers movies.
Included in the deal are popular programs like "Gossip Girl" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," and executives said that both sides will work on expanding the deal in the future.
An expanded deal could see more full-length programing on the website similar to Hulu, a popular video service owned by News Corp, NBC Universal and Walt Disney.
"It's really important to get them on the platform and then it opens up new opportunities," YouTube head of partnerships Jordan Hoffner said. "The content that's produced by Time Warner lends itself to short form like the news clips from CNN or the cartoon shorts from Cartoon Network."
As part of the deal, YouTube will also be integrating the Time Warner player into the site.
YouTube signed a similar partnership with Disney in March, which included program clips from ABC and ESPN cable networks.
Though YouTube is easily the most popular video sharing site globally, it is under pressure from Google investors who say the four-year-old company has yet to turn a profit for its owners. Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube in 2006.
Google has never formally broken out YouTube's financial performance, but last month indicated that the site might be performing better than Wall Street and others have speculated.
But with over 20 hours of users' videos uploaded every minute, analysts point to the huge costs involved in being the world's top free-to-view Web video service. They estimate YouTube's losses run between $200 million to $500 million a year.
Although YouTube hopes to increase the amount of premium videos from partners like Time Warner, Hoffner said, there will be no move to slow the rate at which users can upload and stream personal videos on the site. Continued...
View article on single page
Share:
Del.icio.us
Digg
Mixx
Yahoo!
Facebook
LinkedIn
Next Article:
Migrant children's risky trips to U.S. in new film
Also On Reuters
Migrant children's risky trips to the U.S. documented in film
Video
Video: Investing in small business
Tweeting airline rage: Loud, fast and public
More Entertainment News
Diddy seeks new stars of Facebook generation
Don Hewitt, creator of "60 Minutes," dead at 86
Paris Hilton won't owe $8.3 million for film flop
| Video
"Twilight" hits the road with fan convention tour
NBC and NFL agree on two year television extension
More Entertainment News...
Editor's Choice
Slideshow
A selection of our best photos from the past 24 hours. Slideshow
Most Popular on Reuters
Articles
Video
Canadian eastern provinces in Bill's path
Swiss to reveal UBS accounts to settle U.S. tax row
Honey, I cheated, and blah blah blah...
Views unchanged on Obama's healthcare plans: poll
Baby boomers still getting high
Buffett says unchecked U.S. debt threatens economy: report
Frustrated tweets new headache for airlines
Building block of life found on comet
PlayStation 3 slims down in size, price
Hijackers threatened to blow up mystery ship: reports
Most Popular Articles RSS Feed
Video
Drivers get virtual "guardian angel"
Rally drivers hits horse at speed
Wildfire rages in Greece.
Lockerbie bomber drops appeal
Thai elephant given prosthetic leg
Gunmen seize Kabul building
More violence, deaths in Mexico
Scores dead in Baghdad blasts
Britons facing jail for Brazil fraud
Tweeting to God in Israel
Most Popular Videos RSS Feed
Reuters.com:
Help and Contact Us |
Advertise With Us |
Mobile |
Newsletters |
RSS |
Labs |
Journalism Handbook |
Archive |
Site Index |
Video Index
Thomson Reuters Corporate:
Copyright |
Disclaimer |
Privacy |
Professional Products |
Professional Products Support |
About Thomson Reuters |
Careers
International Editions:
Africa |
Arabic |
Argentina |
Brazil |
Canada |
China |
France |
Germany |
India |
Italy |
Japan |
Latin America |
Mexico |
Russia |
Spain |
United Kingdom |
United States
Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms. Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests.
NYSE and AMEX quotes delayed by at least 20 minutes. Nasdaq delayed by at least 15 minutes. For a complete list of exchanges and delays, please click here.