Some quick news from Lindz MySpace : “little piece of TRUE information: we did NOT break up! access hollywood, extra, et, every tabloid, page six… AND every GOSSIP website. Get your stories straight please. It’s really annoying to have all of your friends emailing you saying, i saw, i read, etc… NOT TRUE”
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In a LiLo/Sam paparazzi video soundbite driven world, the sheer reach of YouTube means it will always be a vsmart buy by GOOGmeister. And Rupe’s MySpace Video plus Hulu private equity funded $1bn startup valuation is equally shrewd. I’m just wondering when the Hulu video golds of river will drop for Australia’s TV networks who can get together and get Private Equity, heck why not Ch7 backer Kravis Kohlberg the original Barbarian at the Gate, and place Australian TV programming online, ad supported ala Hulu. And given Hulu raised $100m @ $1b valuation first round (watch the Arrington/DeWolfe Paris Hilton dating interview vid) the private equity guys can claw back some of those losses by increasing the average multiple of their media assets by adding a Hulu Downunder like asset. That’s a play I’d like to be involved in.
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But reason why Rupert Murdoch doesnt care about Aussie TV businesses, like Channel 10, is that he has Newscorp’s founding stake in Hulu, plus MySpace Video - with post Palin/Fey election momentum. He’s miles behind Sergey and Brin due to their fortitude in be willing to fight and pay music studios for compensation for music video plays, but #2 by consumer reach only isn’t a bad place to be, lets face it there is no #3, when u can sell traditional TV brands for alot higher CPM. Either way, Google and Newscorp pretty much own video online. Even if CBS want TV.com to become a major lean back destination . It’s just a bonus that video usage is up 40% / 08′ usage.
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So ancillary questions like who will Facebook partner with in Music (or will record labels go to hulu).. and by extension Film and Television, suddenly become interesting. What if Facebook diversify their terabytes of photos from the flickr playbook and increasingly encourage video uploads plus some studio deals. Anyway, video is game on, where the party’s at. Anyways I could go on here, but in 2009 a Hulu.com play will hit downunder, and that is one seat at a table (depending on which table becomes The Table of course) I definitely want to be commissioned for.
Comscore Video Usage Nov 08
Comscore research via Broadstuff.com : “The amount of time U.S. Internet users spend watching video is up an impressive 40 percent year over year. Watchers tuned in for 273.1 minutes of online video in the month of November 2008, up from 195 minutes in November 2007, according to comScore.”
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BTW, Picasa is finally available on OSX, well at least at a Google Labs level.
Look at that Google Employee Desktop with Chrome!
