{"id":3521,"date":"2008-11-10T22:55:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T02:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2008-11-10T22:55:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T02:55:52","slug":"youtube-the-hits-just-keep-on-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/11\/10\/youtube-the-hits-just-keep-on-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube: The hits just keep on coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday, it was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNews\/idUSTRE4A90KO20081110\">signed a deal<\/a> with YouTube, allowing the video site to run full-length versions of movies (although the initial selection was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/11\/09\/mgm-to-launch-movies-on-youtube\/\">somewhat less than stellar<\/a>). Today, the site announced a deal with Freemantle Productions, the creators of the American Idol reality-show franchise, that will see the production company create a channel for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/internetNews\/idUSTRE4A957620081110\">all of its existing shows<\/a>, but also a new channel for exclusive content that it will create specifically for YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, YouTube will be carrying ad-supported TV shows from CBS, clips from LionsGate movies with pre-rolls and post-rolls, full-length movies from MGM and exclusive content from one of the world&#8217;s leading reality-show producers. Not bad for a site that started with video clips of funny cats and skateboard pratfalls, and is still considered by some to be a kind of trailer-park ghetto of video (yes, Mark Cuban, we&#8217;re looking at you). With Hulu.com adding plenty of mainstream content too, the competition in online video definitely seems to be heating up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday, it was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that signed a deal with YouTube, allowing the video site to run full-length versions of movies (although the initial selection was somewhat less than stellar). Today, the site announced a deal with Freemantle Productions, the creators of the American Idol reality-show franchise, that will see the production company create a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/11\/10\/youtube-the-hits-just-keep-on-coming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YouTube: The hits just keep on coming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}