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By: Paris Hilton » Blog Archive » Why Viacom is dumb

Paris Hilton » Blog Archive » Why Viacom is dumb — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:05:12 +0000

[...] Why innovation laughs in the face of statistics This post originally started out explaining why YouTube should be used to help promote TV shows, but in the space of day Viacom have decided to pull down the clip … via Piaras Kelly PR [...]

By: John Mims

John Mims — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:34:21 +0000

I saw the clip yesterday, and really enjoyed it. I even thought about checking out the whole show. I think that Viacom is missing an opportunity. How does posting part of a show hurt them? I can understand stopping kids from posting whole episodes of TV shows, but small clips? I think they need to evaluate the benefit they get from viral marketing.

By: Piaras

Piaras — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:27:11 +0000

Keep doing what they’re doing by issuing takedown notices to YouTube for all content they didn’t put up. Then post clips themselves.

By: Breffni Conaty

Breffni Conaty — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:24:34 +0000

I like the thought and in theroy it sounds good but who will decide what clips can be put on to YouTube? Do you think it’s worth a companies time to create video edits & then monitor them on YouTube & other sites. From their point of view a complete ban says it all. They are allowed nothing onsite & if they do, they can sue. Partial releases would only cause additional hassle & with so much copyright infringement its something they can do without no?