It seems I’ve been on a video sharing site kick lately, but that’s where the news has been coming from.\u00a0 And YouTube is featured once again as yesterday they announced that some changes are in the works.<\/p>\n
First, they’ve inked deals to feature content from major studios like Sony Pictures, Starz, Lionsgate, MGM, CBS and the BBC.\u00a0 This premium content will include thousands of TV shows and movies.<\/p>\n
This new content is also behind a redesign of the YouTube site, where a separate area will be featured for\u00a0 professional content.\u00a0 Or in other words, all the user-generated videos will go in one pile…while the premium content goes in another.\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 I wonder where all their traffic will gravitate to once this happens…to videos of dog’s skateboarding or to popular TV shows and films?<\/p>\n
Of course all of this is due to the fact that YouTube is bleeding money and these new deals will help keep it afloat.\u00a0 But that doesn’t necessarily mean that user-generated videos will continue to get a free ride.\u00a0 In fact, YouTube stated that they haven’t counted out charging fees to use their service (although they didn’t state if these fees would be to watch premium content or simply upload videos).<\/p>\n
“Our first priority is on the advertising side,” says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. “We do expect over time to see micropayments and other forms of subscription models coming as well<\/strong>, but our initial focus is on advertising.”<\/p>\n Schmidt also indicated that this influx of premium content will first start as a trickle and build up over time.\u00a0 Whatever the case may be, it’s sounding an awful lot like YouTube is starting to morph into a different animal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems I’ve been on a video sharing site kick lately, but that’s where the news has been coming from.\u00a0 And YouTube is featured once again as yesterday they announced that some changes are in the works. First, they’ve inked deals to feature content from major studios like Sony Pictures, Starz, Lionsgate, MGM, CBS and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[24,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}