Viacom

With Viacom Deal, Amazon Looks Like a Real Competitor to Netflix

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:29:31 -0500

Full article: GigaOM
Ryan Lawler
Amazon continues to ramp up the amount of video content it offers for free to its Amazon Prime subscribers. It announced a deal with Viacom that will bring the number of titles available as part of its Prime Instant Videos service to more that 15,000, or three times the amount of content it launched the service with.

Amazon and Viacom Close to Web Video Deal

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:12:16 -0500

Full article: Reuters
Yinka Adegoke
Amazon.com is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix.

Viacom So Devastated by Piracy that CEO Gets $50 Million Raise

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:10:17 -0500

Full article: Ars Technica
Timothy B. Lee
Last year, Viacom said that "a new wave of digital piracy could threaten the U.S. media business" if it lost its copyright infringement case against YouTube. Similarly, the MPAA has argued that "when profits are reduced, the studios have fewer dollars to invest in movies, and when there is less money to invest they make fewer movies and the diversity and variety of films we love become more limited." So we were interested in this CNN story on the 20 biggest CEO pay raises. The winner? Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman.

Viacom Suffers Layoffs

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:27:26 -0400

Full article: Multichannel News
R. Thomas Umstead
Viacom last week handed pink slips to approximately 100 employees across the Viacom Media Networks, according to company officials. The layoffs represented 1 percent of Viacom's employee base and were spread across Viacom cable networks and companies, including MTV, Nickelodeon and BET Networks.

Evidence Suggests Major Film Studios Uploading Movie Clips to YouTube -- Pretending to Be Pirated

Stevie Converse — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:14:24 -0500

Full article: Tech Dirt
Mike Masnick
One of the tidbits that came out of the YouTube-Viacom lawsuit was the fact that Viacom quite frequently would upload its own clips to YouTube, but did so trying to pretend they were pirated clips.

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert Return to Hulu

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:42:34 -0500

Full article: Los Angeles Times
Viacom has agreed to return "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and the "Colbert Report" starring Stephen Colbert to Hulu, nearly a year after pulling the two high-profile shows off the online video service in a dispute over financial terms.

Viacom Profit and Revenue Decline As DVD Sales Drop

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:30:23 -0500

Full article: New York Times
Tim Arango
Viacom, the big media company whose MTV show "Skins" has been in the spotlight for its racy portrayal of teenage sexuality, reported lower earnings and revenue. Gains in advertising failed to offset a sharp drop in DVD sales at its film studio, Paramount Pictures.

Viacom Raises Red Flags on Comcast-NBC

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:11:22 -0500

Full article: Multichannel News
John Eggerton
Viacom, according to an ex parte filing, expressed concerns that the proposed merger of Comcast with NBC Universal would impact independent programming during meetings with FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn.

Viacom Set to Appeal in YouTube Case

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:49:22 -0500

Full article: Wall Street Journal
Sam Schechner
Viacom says a new wave of digital piracy could threaten the U.S. media business unless federal courts overturn its defeat in a copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google's YouTube video-sharing site.

Viacom's Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Lives on

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:39:55 -0400

Full article: Ars Technica
Nate Anderson
The billion-dollar Viacom lawsuit against YouTube-Google trudges on. After a federal judge sided completely with YouTube in summary judgment, Viacom has now filed its appeal to take the case to the next level.