First Warner’s decided to sign up with Last.fm, and now Viacom has signed a content licensing deal with Joost.
Meanwhile the UK Government has rejected a ban on Digital Rights Management (DRM), but has acknowledged that DRM might infringe consumer rights.
And James Blacks’ internet TV experiment, www.ansathat.com is entering a new phase, with the findings that a $34 website could result in £30k ad revenue after just 50 days of existence. It also found a solid Google rating, and was approached by two organisations, including BT.
Meanwhile, the famed Ask A Ninja site is looking at $300,000 in a year, if it maintains its’ audience.
My favourite example, being male, has to be French Maid TV, which creates one-off sponsored episodes for around $50k, and also creates revenue by hosting clips on Revver
If you’ve got any kind of capture devices, whether it’s a webcam, or HDTV digital video camera, then if you’ve got any ideas for shows, it’s boom time. The question is how soon the bubble will burst for many of these shows, and how they will manage in the future. Will there be a number of net-only content channels spawned by ninjas and french maids, will they always be engaged in a popularity contest on Youtube and Revver, or will the big existing TV players look to be the arbiters of taste and popularity?