A kitchen-sink kind of call for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for its expectation-beating Q307 results. Some of the points that stood out: MySpace: Sergey Brinn said Google has been “very pleased”…

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Updated below: A number of major media and tech companies are banding together to issues “guidelines” for combating the use of unauthorized online content, WSJ reports. The news comes a…

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After months of promising a piracy content filter, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is now beta testing its YouTube Video Identification technology designed to help prevent any further lawsuits over the posting…

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So here goes Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) brilliant think-tank thinking: we own this thing called YouTube, and we tied up with these media companies to provide some bits and bobs for…

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During the Q&A portion of his presentation at Merrill Lynch’s Media & Entertainment conference in Marina Del Rey, CA, Peter Levinsohn, president at Fox Interactive, part of News Corp. (NYSE:…

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The right of established content holders to distribute their content as they please has been an underlying theme of much of the discussion here today. The keynote interview with Viacom…

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It’s no mystery why the online video space attracts fresh investments on a seemingly daily basis.  Comscore is out with its analysis of the online video market for July, and…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is hoping to interest South Korean newspaper publishers in creating ad-supported video news channels, the Korea Times reported. Speaking at a conference in Seoul, Google’s David Eun,…

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From our new paidContent:UK site: For months, News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) social networking jewel MySpace has played down the phenomenal growth of rival Facebook. The former university network this summer…

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Lots of news big and small from The Steve Jobs Show (NSDQ: AAPL) now underway, including, as anticipated, a touch iPod with WiFi shipping this month—basically an iPhone sans AT&T…

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YouTube (Nsdq: GOOG) has done an agreement with MCPS-PRS Alliance, the music collection society in UK, under which the society licenses 10 million pieces of music to YouTube, in return…

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After YouTube officially introduced InVideo advertising overlays yesterday (example), come the predictable user complaints and threats to quit the site. A blog post on the topic written by the YouTube…

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Looking for more ways to make some revenue from its $1.65 billion purchase, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) has begun inserting ads within YouTube videos, reversing its current practice of running ads…

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-- Olympics: NBC will provide video from the 2008 Beijing Olympics to a forthcoming multimedia website offered to Associated Press clients. The news agency has teamed with the broadcaster, which…

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Starting today, Google News (Nasdaq: GOOG) will incorporate click-and-expand news video from some YouTube content partners as part of a limited test. Content providers taking part include BBC, Hearst TV…

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Most of the names on the deposition lists in Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) copyright suit against YouTube and parent Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) are business as usual—Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Sergey Brin,…

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That’s why they call it beta ... 19 months after a flashy debut for the Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Video Store at CES, Google Video is dropping paid video completely. Not…

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Despite a number of agreements with content owners and the promise to put a new copyright filtering system in place next month, YouTube’s legal troubles continue. The National Music Publishers…

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YouTube has announced a series of partnerships in Japan - but the country’s copyright advocates fear producers could still lose out. Google VP David Eun told a Tokyo news conference…

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YouTube will add software to automatically detect copyrighted videos this fall, possibly September, according to a lawyer defending the video sharing site and parent Google against Viacom’s claims of copyright…

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While Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) posted a 28.3 percent increase of net income of $925.1 million in Q2, as we reported earlier, the company failed to meet expectations. During its conference…

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Correction: The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) announced its support of the would-be class action against YouTube and Google; it did not join the suit but encouraged its…

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As part of its continuing mission to outpace YouTube in video, MySpace is relaunching its 18-month-old video-sharing service in a new place and with a new name. According to the…

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New Zealand’s TVNZ is the latest television network to sign a partnership deal with YouTube. As with YouTube’s earlier BBC partnerships, TVNZ will add to a branded channel program excerpts…

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At a Paris press conference, YouTube unveiled localized versions for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Holland, Poland, Spain and the UK (Germany is missing). Initially, the sites get translated homepages,…

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