NEW YORK, US - YouTube, the largest video-sharing website,
will show full-length television shows and films from
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's archives in its latest step to boost
advertising revenue by adding professional programing, the company
told Reuters on Sunday.
The site, owned by Google Inc, plans to make the announcement
about the new partnership on Monday.
MGM Studios will kick off the partnership by posting episodes of
its decade-old "American Gladiators" program to YouTube on one
channel.
On another channel, MGM will post full-length action films like
"Bulletproof Monk" and "The Magnificent Seven" and clips from
popular movies like "Legally Blonde." These will be free to watch,
with ads running alongside the video.
YouTube in October forged a similar partnership with CBS Corp to
run full-length archived shows, including "Star Trek," "Young and
the Restless" and "Beverly Hills 90210."
Many TV networks already run short clips on YouTube, which also
offers millions of home videos uploaded by users.
But until now, YouTube videos were predominantly short clips of
ten minutes or less. The company has been experimenting with
full-length shows for some months with Time Warner Inc's HBO and
CBS's Showtime cable networks.
The new partnerships put YouTube in more direct competition with
Hulu, the online video site owned by News Corp and General
Electric's NBC Universal.
Hulu features up-to-date full-length shows from News Corp's Fox
networks, NBC and CBS. It also has a YouTube channel which features
short-clip versions of its shows. --REUTERS
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Good... next time can watch movie on youtube liao... but dunno
got charges or not...
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