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Videoblogger Hosts TV Show About Online Video
Stars of a rising medium inject life into a dying one. Videoblogger Cory “Mr. Safety” Williams gets his own TV show about online video: The Fizz.
Wonder when Filipino YouTube Directors will be tapped to save Philippine TV.
On second thought, as Alyssa Alano ably demonstrates, Philippine TV is beyond redemption.
Comedy Central Back on YouTube
The Daily Show sums up Bush speeches.
After suing YouTube, NBC signed a deal with YouTube. Now after having their clips pulled off YouTube over the weekend, Comedy Central’s owner Viacom signs a deal with YouTube. Do you see a pattern emerging here?
You gotta love YouTube’s data retention practices. Pulled clips just magically reappeared, stats and all. Here’s what Viacom had to say about it.
We want our audiences to be able to access our programming on every platform and we’re interested in having it live on all forms of distribution in ways that protect our talented artists, our loyal customers and our passionate audiences.
Of course, Viacom asserting copyright right after Google’s purchase of YouTube raises questions of sincerity.
A YouTube user questions Comedy Central’s motives.
Greed aside, it’s good to see Viacom gets this video thing. For a moment there, I was gonna bash them for having their clips pulled off. In the words of VC Paul Graham:
The big media companies shouldn’t worry that people will post their copyrighted material on YouTube. They should worry that people will post their own stuff on YouTube, and audiences will watch that instead.
In celebration of this landmark deal, enjoy a few of my favorite Comedy Central YouTube clips, supersized for your pleasure. Click here to continue reading “Comedy Central Back on YouTube”…
