Amazon.com Inc will live-stream games for the NFL this year, a company spokeswoman said on Tuesday, marking a high-profile push by the online retailer to attract fans to its Prime shopping and video-playback club
Over the past five years, Google and Facebook have cut a conquering swath through the market for digital advertising, snatching ever more business from legacy media companies, such as print newspapers and magazines. But a growing scandal involving the inadvertent placement of ads next to extremist content on Google’s YouTube video has raised questions about whether the balance of power is about to shift again.
Overdue update will take account of rise of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
Music streaming revenues in the UK grew by 49 per cent, to £251m, last year according to a new report on the state of the industry — but the country’s live music market contracted by 2 per cent. Measuring Music, published by the industry’s umbrella group UK Music, found that the growth in streaming services such as Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music is “the key to renewed and continued growth for British music and its artists globally”
The Google-owned website does not disclose revenue figures but the data provide an indication of how it is benefiting from an explosion in demand for digital video advertising as millennials — advertisers’ term for those aged 18 to 34 — spend more time on the site
Vivendi has confirmed a bid for Orange-owned YouTube rival Dailymotion. The French media group, which owns Universal Music and Canal+, confirmed reports it was in talks to buy a majority stake in the video site, in a deal thought to be worth €250m (£182.6m) for a 75 to 80 per cent share.
Social network becomes increasingly popular with video publishers.
Content ID was set up in 2007 by the Google-owned video site to help producers manage their rights and generate revenues from copyright-infringing content
Yahoo is ramping up talks with video producers and plans to premiere a rival to Google’s video service later this summer, according to people briefed on their plans
The Guardian reported today that eMarketer has published its first estimates for YouTube’s advertising revenues
Endemol has announced a €30m (£25m) investment in a stable of local and international digital video channels on platforms including YouTube, Yahoo and AOL
