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Vevo aims for more traction with Watch Party, a chatroom for queuing, watching videos
As music streaming platforms continue to compete for subscribers, one of the biggest suppliers of premium music video content is adding new features to focus on its own platform as a destination. Vevo — the premium music video hosting company that sees 21 billion views of its content each month globally from some 300 million consumers, powering more than 40% of all traffic on YouTube in… Read More
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Vevo now lets users turn music video clips into GIFs
Vevo, YouTube’s biggest competitor when it comes to music videos, has today unveiled a new tool that lets users create GIFs from Vevo’s massive video library. With more than 230,000 videos, Vevo offers users a wide variety of content featuring musicians/celebrities. Giphy, the platform for all things GIF, says that 80 percent of its usage is around GIFs featuring celebrities, so… Read More
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Vevo’s New, More Personalized Music App Comes To Android & Apple TV
In recent months, Vevo has been working to extend its brand from being best-known as the provider of original music videos on YouTube to being a service for music discovery in its own right. The company in November rolled out an upgraded iOS experience as a part of this larger vision, and has today extended that experience to Android and Apple TV. Similar to the iOS version, the new Vevo… Read More
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Nielsen: Music Streams Doubled In 2015, Digital Sales Continue To Fall
2015 was a good year for streaming services, according to Nielsen’s year-end Music report out now. In 2015, on-demand streaming services grew to 317 billion streams – that’s a doubling from 2014, which saw 164.5 billion songs streamed, Nielsen report states. Also interesting is how the shift to streaming is impacting album sales. Though album sales were still down by 6… Read More
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Vevo Buys Showyou To Take On YouTube In Subscription Content
Vevo, the world’s largest music video platform, has today announced its first acquisition: Showyou, a subscription-based video streaming platform that helps users find video content that might appeal to them. Vevo is a joint venture of Universal Music Group, Google, Sony Music Entertainment and Abu Dhabi Media, and offers music videos from major record labels, which are then… Read More
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Vevo Follows YouTube Music’s Debut With An Upgraded Music App Of Its Own
Following today’s launch of the anticipated YouTube Music application, music video streaming app Vevo, which distributes videos to YouTube and counts Google as an investor, is also introducing a new experience of its own. The company today is rolling out a completely revamped mobile app, initially on iOS, which reimagines the Vevo application as one that’s focused more heavily… Read More
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Vevo Confirms Rio Caraeff To Step Down As CEO This Year, CFO Alan Price Steps Up For The Interim
Music video streaming service Vevo today announced that Rio Caraeff is stepping down from his role as the CEO — formally confirming news that was reported twice this past weekend, first based on a leak, then based on a leaked memo from Caraeff to staff. This is a massive change to the company’s leadership: Caraeff has been running Vevo since 2009 — the year it was… Read More
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After YouTube And Vimeo, Pinterest Now Adds Vevo Music Videos To Its Site
Make way for more content coming to Pinterest: today the platform is adding Vevo music videos, which you can search for, share, and watch on Pinterest itself, on your own Pinboards, those of your friends, or on Vevo’s. The companies are not disclosing the financial terms of the deal, a spokesperson for Vevo tells me. This is not the first video integration for Pinterest. In fact… Read More
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Vevo Product Head Michael Cerda Is Leaving The Streaming Music Company
Vevo SVP Michael Cerda resigned this week following three years as the company’s head of product and technology. The streaming music video company confirmed the departure after Cerda revealed in a tweet earlier today that he was leaving. Read More
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Vevo Releases New iOS App With A Real-Time Feed And Live Vevo TV Streams
Music video distributor Vevo just launched an “>update to its iOS app today, providing users a new, regularly updated home page, as well as access to the company’s live, programmed music channels. The new version of the app, which the company showed to some reporters at SXSW, follows a major redesign to its website that Vevo launched last fall. Read More
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VEVO Is Launching New Mobile Apps And An SDK To Offer Its Music Videos To Third-Party Developers
Music video streaming startup VEVO is building an updated version of its mobile apps, which are coming soon. It also took the step to making its videos available on partner applications with plans to release software development kit for third-party developers. Read More
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VEVO Relaunches Its Web And Mobile Sites To Streamline Music Video Search And Discovery
Music video powerhouse VEVO is launching a major redesign this week, after rebuilding its back end from the ground up. The online music video site has undergone a complete overhaul, designed to make it easier for users to browse and discover new content, while also streamlining the ability to search for the videos that they want to watch. Read More
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VEVO Launches Music Video App For Samsung Smart TVs & Blu-Ray Players
VEVO announced that it is launching on yet another connected TV platform today, making its music videos now available on the latest Samsung Smart TV products. The launch will grow the number of viewers who will have access to the company’s streaming service, while also improving monetization of its content. Read More
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VEVO Hires Nielsen Digital Exec Jonathan Carson As Chief Revenue Officer
Ever since launch, music video distributor VEVO has been working to increase monetization of its digital properties, highlighting the pure volume of videos and high engagement that viewers have on its site, as well as its apps on mobile and connected TV platforms. Now the company has a new sales boss, former Nielsen executive Jonathan Carson, who joins at the company’s Chief Revenue Officer. Read More
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Apple TV Gets Vevo Music Videos, Disney And Disney XD, The Weather Channel And Smithsonian Content
Apple continues its selective content partner rollout today with an update to Apple TV software that adds Vevo, as previously rumored, as well as Disney Channel, Disney XD, The Weather Channel and Smithsonian via new dedicated apps, as 9to5Mac reports. All those content providers are live in the U.S., but U.K. users and other regions will see only select channels via update. Read More
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BandPage Revives With Deals To Help Artists Manage VEVO And Xbox Music Profiles
Bandpage has been trying to rebuild as a cross-web tool for managing musician presences since it got steamrolled by Facebook Timeline. Today it took a big step towards its “publish once, update everywhere” dream with exclusive deals for artists to manage their profiles on Vevo and Xbox Music. These platforms have tens of millions of users, meaning Bandpage is suddenly somewhat of… Read More
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YouTube Confirms Renewed VEVO Deal, Takes Stake In Company
YouTube confirmed that it has renewed its deal with music video distributor VEVO. Not only does the deal allow YouTube to keep VEVO’s videos on its site, but it also requires Google to invest in VEVO. Though terms of the deal have not been disclosed, Billboard estimated in February that it is worth between $40 million to $50 million and would give Google a 7 percent stake in VEVO. Read More
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