3 posts and columns on Channel 4

New From Google Labs: Google Plutocrat

in News on October 15, 2009 at 1:00 pm PT

The broader advertising recovery may take time, but search advertising is clearly beating a hasty path back toward normalcy. Or it is in Google’s case anyway. Reporting third-quarter results after market close Thursday, the search giant posted revenue of $5.94 billion, an increase of seven percent compared to the third quarter of 2008.
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Has YouTube Finally Figured Out How to Play Nicely With Big Media?

in Media on October 8, 2009 at 12:52 pm PT

YouTube sneaked up on big media, then scared the hell out of them, then tried to do business with them, more or less unsuccessfully. Now, three years after Google plunked down $1.6 billion for the video site, it seems to have figured out an approach that works for at least some big players: Hand over a chunk of the site to content creators, who get to control it, sell ads on it, program it with their stuff and share some of the ad dollars. Newest example, reportedly: Britain’s Channel 4.
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I'm Hulu. James Hulu.

in News on November 28, 2007 at 12:11 am PT

It seems the media industry across the pond is taking its cue from Hulu, the fledgling U.S. online video effort from NBC Universal and News Corp., at offering consumers TV content online in better and more flexible ways. Three of the main British TV networks–the BBC, ITV and Channel 4–are planning a joint on-demand service, [...]