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Can Universal Music Run Its Own Hulu? It’s Going to Try.

in Media on April 10, 2009 at 4:04 am PT

At first glance, it seems straightforward: The world’s biggest music company and the world’s biggest video site team up to make a new music video hub. But Vevo, the arrangement announced by Google’s YouTube and Vivendi’s Universal Music Group yesterday, isn’t quite as straightforward as the two companies made it sound.
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EMI Sort Of Launches Its Own Music Portal

in Media on December 17, 2008 at 1:00 am PT

Why does EMI want to build its own music site? As a “learning lab” the company says. Lesson one: Finish building out the lab.