Yahoo! And Microsoft and others announced the establishment of a video site to compete against YouTube

"News Corporation" which acquired MySpace which is the world's largest SNS and "NBC" which is one of the three biggest networks in the United States join hands, Yahoo! And Microsoft and others cooperated and announced that it will establish a video site to counter that YouTube.

As NBC already had a cooperative system such as offering videos on YouTube, the deployment of YouTube in the future became uncertain at a moment and further it is no longer possible to become "Google vs other" by this announcement It is beginning to be whispered overseas as to whether it will be an unavoidable development.

Details are as follows.
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To this alliance Yahoo! And other than Microsoft, Time Warner and AOL are included, and although the name of the established video site is still to be determined, it is scheduled to start this summer and includes many TV programs and movies It will be.

It is also examined in the form of not offering a part in the form of full disclosure, but in full form of providing the full story, so if you can not realize what you can imagine if you are trapped in existing halfway existing copyright rights It seems that you are planning to develop it, in short, because it seems that it is aimed at realizing "what you can not do with current YouTube", it is unpredictable about the possibility of direct collision, but this is ultimately the Internet It may be important to have a meaning in history.

Basically, I'm thinking about providing styles to be "free" by displaying advertisements, and as an advertiser I already signed contracts with major national clients such as Intel and General Motors. In addition, these movies are MySpace, MSN, Yahoo! And it is said that it can also be embedded directly in the profile screen or your blog like YouTube. too cool.

According to AOL, we aim to secure 100 million unique users per month in a month, so we will seek closer cooperation with Google in search and so on.

In short this announcement of this daring alliance and the establishment of the new site is nothing but a means of opposing YouTube, but why the idea of ​​each company to say in the place whether to make a new site without using YouTube There seem to be. In other words, with Google-initiated content sharing with YouTube, television and movie companies will be distributed in a distributed manner, so the media side, which is an existing content publisher, will take the initiative to secure leadership , It will create profits.

If I think about it now, it seems that the former Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube and Google is a hint to this announcement ....

Or, though it is acquired by Google, though I hate YouTube led by the community, I can think that I wanted a new video site that can be deployed by existing companies, but ... .... .