Monday, October 30, 2006

BoobTubed

YouTube officially started removing television shows like "The Colbert Report," "The Daily Show," "South Park" and more. The move should have an effect on the number of videos
that are distributed throughout the web via MySpace, blogs, email and more.

This is an interesting move for Viacom, the parent company for Comedy Central, in part because many of the viewers of these video clips happen to be the exact market that they are targeting when such shows are produced. YouTube has been successful in working out advertising and revenue sharing deals with other major content distributors, such as Universal.

It should be interesting to see if, now that YouTube is part of a bigger, more financially lucrative company, content distributors are more aggressive in having their content removed from their site.

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