The twists and turns in the Web TV business are becoming soap operatic......
Some time ago, when the GooTube deal was done, we noted that all the music studios except EMI had got in on Google's acquisition, but the TV and Film studios hadn't. We wrote at the time that:
NBC and CBS, who had negotiated earlier, did not get stakes. Shows the advantages of being early movers I guess.
EMI has still to reach a settlement with YouTube, as do most of the TV studios. I'll bet they are delighted with this news.....I wonder if there are seats ready with their names on?
Well, its been interesting to see how said TV studios have been ensuring they get their seats at the Round Table.
- CBS did a deal with GooTube before seats were handed out, but has now apparently pulled away from long term deals that were expected to be announced at CES
- Now
NBC has put their weight behind Viacom's takedown notices, demanding removal of their content.
On a similar vein,
an article in the Economist this week notes that Joost is being radical by not following any Web 2.0 models, and is instead serving lean back TV with Ads (though less per hour outside of the US - we are apparently less tolerant of Ads than Americans)
The crux of the article (after the page long paean to Joost and hardly a mention of any competitors like Babelgum etc - darn their PR is good) is that WebTV is splitting service delivery from network ownership (and we would argue it is also splitting aggregation from network ownership).
What this implies, is that WebTV will grow far faster than IPTV over the next few years, according to the article, quoting research from iSuppli (I have seen similar from elsewhere, and the gist - rather than exact numbers - concurs with our estimates)
While talking about the Economist, there is also a
useful article about Steve Jobs' "
Thoughts on Music" - or more accurately, thoughts on DRM.
More food for thought for those
yet-to-market IPTV plays............
....although there is an on again off again story that Google thinks the Web will
not be able to handle all this TV n
[Source: broadstuff] quoted: Well, its been interesting to see how said TV studios have been ensuring they get their seats at the Round Table. - CBS did a deal with GooTube before seats were handed out, but has now apparently pulled away from long term deals that were expected to be announced at CES - Now NBC has put their weight behind Viacom's takedown notices, demanding removal of their content.
Tracked: Feb 10, 04:39