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...media giant Viacom--whose founder, Sumner Redstone, is credited with coining the phrase "Content is king"--has taken a different tack. Viacom's Daily Show and Colbert Report generated a steady stream of popular clips on YouTube. In February the company demanded that YouTube remove the videos, and this month it sued Google for $1 billion. Viacom also signed a deal to distribute shows via YouTube competitor Joost...
...Viacom's aim, CEO Philippe Dauman said at an investor conference, was to "show our content in an environment we control." But online audiences gravitate toward neutral platforms that old-line media companies don't control, from Google's search box to Apple's iTunes Music Store--and to YouTube, which already gets more traffic than all the TV-network websites combined, according to research firm Hitwise. "Eventually all of the copyrighted content will be available on virtually all of the sites," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in an interview on Bloomberg TV. "The growth of YouTube, the growth...
Amount for which Viacom is suing Google and its Internet video-sharing site, YouTube, over unauthorized use of Viacom's programming online...
...years and 25 deals later, Rodriguez, 26, decamped from the thriving London office for Emeryville. As director of business development, she's ready to work with partners like Viacom, NBC and Turner and target other major media companies. The mission is to program--and monetize--their content for mobile phones. Rodriguez plans to help expand MobiTV's role as a distributor that fashions content into made-for-mobile programs such as Fox Sports and ABC News Now as well as unique content channels. "At the end of the day, we're an enabler," she says with buoyant vitality, accented...
...Viacom, which recently yanked its programs from YouTube, has signed a deal to supply Joost with movies from Paramount and programming from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and other stations. TIME has learned that Joost will soon announce another big deal--with JumpTV, the world's largest distributor of international TV stations, to begin distributing programming from some of the 270 stations in 70 countries that JumpTV owns rights to. The deal will launch with prerecorded Spanish and Arabic programming from stations in Latin America and the Middle East. Eventually JumpTV plans to provide Joost with live streams from TV stations...