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YouTube strikes revenue!: there’s ad cash in them thar video hills

YouTube announces today that it is taking paid ads and giving them their own channels.

One of the first is Paris Hilton, who is punting her new CD on her own YouTube channel, itself  "sponsored" by Fox TV series Prison Break (no content about or link to a site for Prison Break though – weird).

More on this at the New York Times and the Guardian.

: : Meanwhile, controversial PlayStation game Bully has its trailer on the front page of YouTube today as a straight promo video from the developers RockStar…

: : : Mean-meanwhile, Sony Pictures has acquired its own Youtube-alike: video-sharing community, Grouper (NYT has more…)

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Antony Mayfield

2 responses to “YouTube strikes revenue!: there’s ad cash in them thar video hills”

  1. Simon Collister Avatar
    Simon Collister

    You had better watch those tags, Antony. video + paris_hilton mignt get you the wrong kind of traffic!

    Nice and subtle redesign by the way.

  2. Antony Mayfield Avatar
    Antony Mayfield

    Cheers, Simon. Until one plucks up the courage to migrate to WordPress or Six Apart bring out a wider range of templates – there’s always endless tinkering.

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