Vevo’s Rio Caraeff Profits From Ubiquity (Video)

Rio Caraeff doesn’t run a normal start-up. His two-year-old Vevo, which is a video distributor for the music labels, took in $150 million in the past year. Here are his highlights from D: Dive Into Media.
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Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff: We Made $150 Million Last Year

Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff announces the company’s financials for the first time onstage at D: Dive Into Media.
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More Stars for D: Dive Into Media — Jason Kilar, Dick Costolo and Martha Stewart Join Us Onstage

Our first-ever media conference kicks off in a litte more than a month. And we’ve added the heads of Hulu, Twitter and Martha Stewart Living to a star-studded cast.
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Biggest YouTube Videos of the Year: Rebecca Black, of Course. And Pitbull?

Same as it ever was: YouTube users really like cute cats, and cute dogs, and so-bad-they’re-awesome girl singers. But what they really, really like are videos from the big music labels.
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You Are Watching More Web Video Ads, and You Are Okay With That

And the Web video business, which has been waiting for this for a long time, is pretty psyched.
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Game On! ESPN’s New Boss, John Skipper, Debuts at D: Dive Into Media.

Time to introduce another D: Dive Into Media speaker, and this one’s very timely: The first onstage interview with the new head of cable TV’s MVP.
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More Moguls for D: Dive Into Media — Clear Channel, Legendary Pictures and Vevo Join the Cast

Heavyweights from radio, Hollywood, and Web video join a star-studded roster for All Things Digital‘s first-ever media conference: Bob Pittman, Thomas Tull and Rio Caraeff come aboard.
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Some of You Need a YouTubePhone

You can do all sorts of amazing things with mobile phones these days. But many of you, it seems, are content to use your handset as a YouTube delivery device. A new study says the site accounts for a fifth of mobile bandwidth usage worldwide.
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For Vevo’s Music Video Viewers, “Mobile” Might Mean “In Bed”

Just because you can watch a Web clip on your phone doesn’t mean you’ll watch it on the go.
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Exclusive: Myspace in Advanced Deal Talks With Investor Group, Including Activision’s Kotick

And then there was one? According to sources close to the situation, News Corp. is down to one possible investing group in its quest to make lemonade out of the lemon that its Myspace social entertainment hub has become. In the lastest of many scenarios considered, several sources said its owner, News Corp., will continue to own about 20 percent of Myspace. The main bidder is a dark horse bidding group, which includes Activision Chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick as one of the potential investors.
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Did Web Video Just Stall?