May 17th, 2013

Vevo Dostępne Po Polsku

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Vevo, popularny serwis muzycznych teledysków, ogłosił oficjalną dostępność w Polsce. Usługa, wcześniej niedostępna w tym regionie geograficznym, będzie zawierać video-clipy najpopularniejszych polskich gwiazd jak Brodka, Pezet, a może i nawet David Hasselhoff. → Read More

April 12th, 2013

Code In Twitter Music’s Placeholder Page Shows Web Interface, Track Purchasing, Charts And Service Integrations

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Since we have nothing much to go on other than a static landing page for Twitter #music, some folks didfurther inspection within the CSS on the login page, and certain features and integrations became apparent. We’ve reached out to Twitter to confirm what we’ve seen, and we’ll update our story once we hear back. Until then, here’s what can be taken from the styling code… → Read More

April 2nd, 2013

Music Video Company VEVO Learns Dutch, Launches In The Netherlands

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VEVO just became available in a whole new market, as its streaming music video service was launched in The Netherlands today. The launch will make more than 75,000 music videos available to Dutch viewers, and brings the total number of countries that it operates in to 11. It serves music videos in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, and the U.K. → Read More

March 12th, 2013

VEVO Launches A Live Channel To Bring The Next Generation Of ‘Music Television’ Online

VEVO just rolled out its first new live and programmed music video offering, VEVO TV. The idea behind VEVO TV is to enable viewers to just sit back and have a stream of videos continuously shown to them, introducing them to new artists and allowing them to relive some old music videos that they might have forgotten about. → Read More

December 20th, 2012

VEVO Gets A Roku App, Bringing More Than 50,000 Streaming Music Videos To Your TV

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The new VEVO app on Roku, which launched today, will allow viewers to instantly start watching, with a continuous stream of music videos powered by its recommendations service. It also has various categories of videos that users can check out, so they can view music videos in their favorite genre, or check out the most popular or trending artists. → Read More

September 11th, 2012

VEVO: 40B Videos Watched Globally In The Last Year, Mobile Traffic Doubled In Q2 To 1.3B Streams

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Back in March, VEVO rolled out a huge new redesign, which saw the major-label-owned music video giant add continuous playback and beef up its personalization and social features. Thanks to tight new integration with Facebook’s Open Graph, VEVO quickly saw a big increase in the number of videos watched and shared via the social network. Simultaneously, the company has been making a serious push on… → Read More

September 7th, 2012

VEVO’s New iPad App Adds Personalized Playlists, Social Sharing & Continuous Playback

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Earlier this year, VEVO unveiled a huge new redesign, adding continusous playback and social features designed to get more people engaged when watching its music videos. And while it made that experience available on its website and on its Xbox Live app, there was one device clearly missing — the iPad. Well, it just released an updated version of its iPad app, making a lot of the same features… → Read More

August 1st, 2012

VEVO Inks Deal To Bring Music Videos To Upcoming OUYA Android Game Console

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The folks behind the stylish, Android-based OUYA game console have been on a hot streak lately. Not only has the project raked in over $6 million in Kickstarter pledges, but cloud gaming service OnLive and legendary game developer Square-Enix have thrown their collective weight behind the $99 gadget.

Now there’s another hefty name to add to that list. Music video provider VEVO has announced… → Read More

March 9th, 2012

The New VEVO: Music Video Giant Adds Personalization, Facebook Playlists & Continuous Play

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VEVO launched officially to the world in December 2009, and in the same month became the most visited music site in the U.S. That was just over two years ago, and today VEVO has grown to be the second largest web video property behind YouTube, with some 51.5 million unique viewers tuning in to VEVO’s content in January, according to comScore.

Last week, news started to trickle out in the form… → Read More

February 9th, 2012

Music Labels’ Joint Venture, VEVO, Shows Pirated NFL Game At Sundance

Over the last decade the major music labels — and their trade organization, the Recording Industry Association of America — have established a repeated pattern of attacking consumers in the name of squelching illegal file-sharing. Piracy, they claim, has been the industry’s undoing, accounting for an over 50% drop in sales since 1999 (the industry likes to discount the impact of legal… → Read More

April 26th, 2011

With Vevo crossing the pond, Muzu.TV partners with Metacafe to bed down in Europe

Who’d have thought that years after MTV went out of vogue and post-YouTube, a number of sites would still be battling it out to dominate the music video space online. That’s because online video is said to be the fastest growing market for advertising globally and music videos are potentially a big part of that story.

Perhaps then it’s not just co-incidence that on the day that US-based Vevo→ Read More

April 26th, 2011

Vevo, the Hulu-for-music-videos, opens up in the UK

Music video site Vevo, which now claims to be the third largest source for video on the web, has opened up in the UK today, including versions of its iPhone, iPad & Android apps hitting their respective local app stores.

In September of last year, the site boasted 49 million unique video viewers per-month, with 500 million views in the US and 1.4 billion in the rest of the world. However, that… → Read More

January 12th, 2011

YouTube Mobile Traffic Tripled In 2010, Android App Gets Music Videos (And Ads)

Given how popular YouTube is on the web, it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that a lot of people also enjoy watching video clips from their phones. And, given the surge in Android, iPhone, and iPad sales, that adds up to a lot of videos. Today, YouTube is announcing just how much people are watching: a whopping 200 million video views per day, up 3x from January 2010.

In addition to this stat… → Read More

October 25th, 2010

Interlude, S-Curve, And VEVO Team To Launch Ridiculously Engaging Interactive Music Video

Head to leading music video portal VEVO this morning and you’re going to see something that’s quite out of the ordinary: a new music video starring Andy Grammer that puts you in the director’s chair. Hit ‘play’ and things will start simply enough, with Grammer walking down an alley as he croons toward the camera. But after a few moments you’ll see a popup asking if you want him to “Bump into… → Read More

September 29th, 2010

Music Video Startup Vevo Is Seeing Tens Of Million In Revenue

Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff took the stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt to talk about how Vevo, like a Hulu for music launched in December 2009, is now the third largest source for video on the web. Vevo, whose core philosophy is that the Internet is about choice, now receives 49 million unique video viewers a month, with 500 million views in the US and 1.4 billion around the world. → Read More

August 5th, 2010

Live On YouTube Tonight: Arcade Fire Directed By Terry Gilliam

Last October, YouTube decided to venture into the concert broadcasting business when they showed a U2 concert in Pasadena, CA all around the world. And they did it live. The result? 10 million streams on a Sunday night. Now they’re expanding on that idea with their “Unstaged” concert series. And the first of those takes place tonight with the band Arcade Fire.

Tonight at 10 PM ET/7PM PT if you… → Read More

June 1st, 2010

comScore: Users Watched 30.3 Billion Videos In April; Vevo Viewership Spikes

The U.S. comScore video metrix stats are out today, with the number of video viewers dipping slightly during the month of April. According to the web metrics company, 178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month compared to 180 million in March. Vevo, the Hulu for music videos which launched last December, saw swift growth, attracting 43.6 million viewers in April… → Read More

May 12th, 2010

YouTube & Vevo Team To Stream 'The National' Concert; More Events In The Works

Later this month, YouTube is teaming with Vevo and American Express to live-stream a concert by The National that’s being held in Brooklyn. The concert, which will be held on May 15 at 8 PM EST, will be available free of charge to YouTube users around the world (with a few restrictions based on rights issues). You’ll be able to watch the concert here. The event isn’t without precedent… → Read More

January 13th, 2010

YouTube Helps Vevo Overtake MySpace Music In The U.S. (Plus, Top Ten Music Properties)

The biggest U.S. music service on the Web in December was Vevo, a new entrant which is a joint venture between Google, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music. Dubbed the “Hulu of music videos,” Vevo attracted 35.4 million unique visitors in December, 2009, putting it above the 33.1 million visitors who went to MySpace Music, according to estimates put out today by comScore. Considering that Vevo… → Read More

December 8th, 2009

Vevo Gets More YouTube Love Prior To Tonight's Launch

Later tonight, Vevo, the “Hulu for music videos,” being launched by YouTube and several of the record labels, is set to go live. But there’s already some Vevo content appearing on YouTube itself right now.

As you can see on this page, YouTube has an account fo EminemVEVO. It appears this is a way to cross promote for the new service. Not only is the video branded with the Vevo logo (which we’ve→ Read More

October 30th, 2009

We Catch Our First, Fleeting Glimpse Of VEVO On YouTube

Over the last six months we’ve heard quite a bit about Vevo, a premium content site that’s been called a ‘Hulu for music videos’. The site was originally founded by UMG in a partnership with YouTube and has since added Sony Music Group, with negotiations onging with EMI and Warner. But while plenty has been said about its partners, we still haven’t seen much that shows what the site actually… → Read More

October 19th, 2009

Middle Eastern Media Giant Backs Upcoming Music Video Site VEVO

VEVO, the YouTube-powered “Hulu for music videos” which to date was a joint venture between Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, is gaining a new founding shareholder.

VEVO has just announced a ‘strategic’ investment was made by Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC), a giant of a media company with headquarters in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, reports MediaMemo. The… → Read More