A new service lets YouTube viewers see content that has been deleted from the site. Delutube can serve up video clips even after YouTube has purged them. So, even if your favorite MTV videos have been deleted by YouTube, you may still be able to watch them in all their YouTube-branded glory. Delutube allows visitors […]

Popular video blogger Ze Frank is planning to end his show this week. Frank’s final episode will air on March 17, 2007.Launched in March 2006 as a one-year project, The Show with Ze Frank takes the form of a conversation between the host, Ze Frank, and the show’s audience of “sports racers.” Together they discuss […]

Media conglomerate Viacom is suing Google for $1 billion dollars, arguing that YouTube’s business is built on ripping off other people’s work: “YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to others’ creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google. […]

Media conglomerate Viacom, parent company of MTV, Comedy Central, BET, TV Land and Nickelodeon, has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Google and its Internet video sharing site YouTube over unauthorized use of copyrighted entertainment. The suit accuses Web Google and YouTube of “massive intentional copyright infringement” of Viacom’s entertainment assets and seeks an injunction […]

MTV has announced record traffic and video streams for mtv.com since the beginning of the year. January and February were consecutive record-setting months for the site. The site delivered a record 84 million streams in January, only to beat that number in February with 85.1 million streams.Year-to-year comparisons are even more striking: January 2007 streams […]

March 12: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast. Today’s podcast is the Jon Hammond Show – a video podcast that focuses on the music of aptly named jazz organist Jon Hammond. The […]

Universal Music Group and Bolt have announced that they have reached an out-of-court settlement resolving the lawsuit brought by UMG against Bolt. UMG sued Bolt for copyright infringement in connection with the unauthorized use of UMG‚Äôs video and music content on the Bolt website. Universal sought damages of up to $150,000 for each video distributed […]

HDTV pioneer and Dallas Maverick owner Mark Cuban thinks it’s time for media companies to start filling YouTube with spam. Cuban highlights the fact that YouTube may have received as much traffic from people viewing Oscar clips as Oscar.com, and asks “Do the Oscars benefit or are they harmed by their video being seen on […]

While most recent coverage of YouTube has focused on the controversy over the site yanking 100,000 Viacom videos, a new report suggest that YouTube users prefer homemade videos over mainstream content. According to research company HitWise, user-generated videos are more popular on the Youtube than commercial videos. ‚ÄúIf you look at the search terms driving […]

Viacom has announced that it will be a content partner and will offer its full range of brands and programming for free to consumers via Joost. Joost is a new Internet video site, now in beta, designed to provide interactive video content while providing copyright protection. Under the agreement, Viacom’s divisions – MTV Networks, BET […]