December 20th, 2012

With 2 Billion Video Views A Month, Maker Studios Raises $36 Million Round Led By Time Warner

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There’s more big money going into video startups: Maker Studios, which ranks among the top networks of creators publishing on YouTube, announced today that it has closed a $36 million round of financing led by Time Warner Investments. The announcement confirms a previous report that Time Warner would be investing in the company. → Read More

May 31st, 2011

(Exclusive) YouTube's New Strategy: Create a Network Of Networks

YouTube is now showing approximately 3 billion videos a day. A growing proportion of those are shown with ads—more than 2 billion a week—and YouTube as a business is expected to pass $1 billion in revenue next year.

But when it comes to making money, some videos do better than others. For YouTube, it is all about scale, and networks of loosely aligned online video producers scale better than… → Read More