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Alliance Adds One of the World's Largest Music Companies to Growing Roster of Media Companies Working with YouTube to Reach its Massive Audience
NEW YORK, NY and SAN BRUNO, Calif. ? October 09, 2006 ?YouTube, Inc., a consumer media company that enables people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, and SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, today announced a deal that will make available a wide variety of video content from the music company?s world-renowned library to the YouTube community. YouTube users will be able to interact with videos from a wide array of SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT artists ranging from the most important recordings in history to today?s hottest young artists.
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CBS to Distribute Daily Sports, News and Entertainment Programming through New Brand Channel
First TV Network to Test YouTube Content Identification Architecture To Connect and Engage with Viewers
NEW YORK, NY and SAN BRUNO, Calif. ? October 09, 2006 ? YouTube, Inc. and CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) have struck a strategic content and advertising partnership announced today by Leslie Moonves, President and CEO of CBS Corporation and Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-Founder of YouTube. The deal calls for the CBS Television Network, its premium television service provider, Showtime Networks Inc., as well as its basic cable/digital media service, CSTV Networks, Inc., to offer the YouTube community a wide variety of short-form video programming from its news, sports and entertainment divisions on a daily basis beginning this month. YouTube and CBS will share revenue from advertising sponsorships of CBS Videos.
In addition, CBS is the first TV network to test YouTube?s new advanced content identification architecture and reporting system which will allow CBS to protect its intellectual property by identifying and locating copyrighted CBS content on YouTube. CBS will then have the opportunity to either remove it from the site or, at CBS?s sole discretion, allow it to remain. If CBS allows the content to remain on the site, CBS will share in any revenue from advertising placed adjacent to the content.