Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Video social networking site YouTube has followed up its recent coup with the US NBA by signing an agreement with the BBC. Under the agreement, the BBC will show clips and trailers each day across three separate channels, covering news, documentaries and entertainment according to an Associated Press report.
The move is being widely seen as an attempt by
the UK Government subsidised BBC to reach a wider audience and to bring
in commercial revenues.
As far as YouTube is concerned, the BBC deal, like deals with other
traditional media organizations, and the deal last week with the
massively popular NBA, lends further credibility to the popular video
sharing site.
The news of the YouTube deal comes almost simultaneously to an
announcement from new online Internet TV peer-to-peer TV service Joost
that it has signed a deal with global TV distribution service JumpTV.
Joost, founded by Skype and Kazaa founders Janus Friis and Niklas
Zennstrom, has been touted by many segments of the media as a
competitor to YouTube. It also has the support of traditional content
producers which have shunned YouTube because of alleged copyright
violations, such as Viacom.
However, the operation and functions of YouTube and Joost are
different. YouTube is a video sharing site, which allows users to post
content and interact in a social networking setting, while Joost is an
Internet based TV distribution channel.
David Bass
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