YouTube Takes Some Jabs from Big Media Names
By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Feb 8th, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)It was just a matter of time before the large content-creator-media (networks, properties) wold make their decisions on whether YouTube was good or bad. For a while the “business side” saw it as good and had the upper hand (”they’re getting so much traffic, how can that be bad?”). Now the “creative side” is moving in (”they’re making all this money on stuff we made!”). Basically no one likes to be taken advantage of, but nobody wants to lose an opportunity either. YouTube is slippery, and most of the serious independent content-generators don’t know how to approach this slope (post and wish for the best, seek revenues, hold-off). But for now a few big names have dropped some stink-bombs.
Barry Diller (IAC):
“What’s happened is that media companies have said, ‘We’re not gonna let you get so strong in distribution,’”
Jeff Zucker (NBCU):
“YouTube needs to prove that it will implement its filtering technology across its online platform. It’s proven it can do it when it wants to,” Mr Zucker said, referring to the site’s controls to block pornography and hate speech. He added: “They have the capability. The question is whether they have the will.”
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