Tag archive: Vevo

Facebook is expected to reveal its music application at this year’s f8 conference, scheduled for this week. While details about the feature continue to surface, The Guardian has some inside information about what else we can expect to see Thursday. The Ticker We finally know what this thing is for. Facebook will launch a real-time media stream (so far dubbed “the ticker”) that will display what your Facebook friends are viewing, listening to, or… Read More

Media analysis firm comScore has released its online video rankings for July 2011, and finds that—as in previous months—Google sites (led by YouTube) dominated the field, while online streaming service Hulu was putting more ads in front of consumer eyeballs than any other online video service. Significantly, comScore also found July was a record month for online video consumption, with an estimated 180 million Americans each… Read More

New figures from market research firm Nielsen show the number of American tapping into online video during June declined by 1.7 percent compared to May, with a 3.7 percent decline in the number of streams served and a 2.0 percent drop in the number of streams per user. Nielsen also found that the amount of time Americans spent streaming video dropped from four and a half hours in may to just three hours and forty-eight minutes in June. From… Read More

If television wasn't feeling threatened by Internet video, it should be quaking in its boots now. New figures released from media metrics firm Comscore indicate that 178 million Americans watched online video content during June 2011, with a per-user average of 16.8 *hours* of Internet video watching per viewer during the month. In total, Americans tuned in to more than 6.2 billion videos during the month—that's an all-time record,… Read More

Online analytics tracker comScore announced the results of its May online video rankings, which shows that YouTube remains the undisputed king of the online video realm. The Google-owned online video giant led all of Google's video sites to help bring in a whopping 147.2 million unique visitors during the month of May. According to comScore's count, the total US Internet audience is 176.3 million. So, in other words, nearly every… Read More

MySpace’s fate is decided: The former top dog of the social networking world has seen better days and will be sold to the highest bidder. Its chapter as an independent site is quickly coming to a close, as AllThingsDigital claims this coming week it will open itself up for sale negotiations. Despite its extremely depressing financial history, there are a handful of companies interested in MySpace, and it could be sold within two weeks time. So… Read More

Last month, Myspace Music president Courtney Holt resigned from what was purportedly the only stable feature left of the former social titan. It was just one more punch to MySpace, which has been in a slow demise for the better part of a year. After the site slashed jobs worldwide and reportedly lost millions of users over the course of a few weeks, we might finally be hearing the death toll of MySpace. #1: User falloff The user drop off has… Read More

Back in April, Google's YouTube and Universal Music announced plans for a new joint venture music video site called Vevo, with the idea of breaking music videos from major labels out of the amateur-land of YouTube and onto a premiere destination which would get lots of traffic and be able to generate more ad revenue. In June, Sony said it would get on board with Vevo, and now industry reports have Vevo in talks with NBC and CBS to… Read More

Sony Music Entertainment has announced it will be joining rival Universal Music in Vevo, a new premiere music video service being developed by YouTube. Vevo, formally announced back in April, is intended to be a premiere site for major labels music videos, rising above the cacophony (and amateur antics) of the larger YouTube community. Vevo will be supported by ad revenue, and Universal and YouTube hope the service will command higher… Read More

After rumors emerged last month, Universal Music Group and Google subsidiary YouTube have made it official: the two companies are working together to launch a new premium music video Web site dubbed Vevo. Vevo will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Universal, and will be supported through advertising revenue that will be split between the two companies. The hope is that by building a premium site, top music and entertainment brands will be… Read More