January 17: News that Facebook will end Live
video deals with publishers in favor of longer more premium video.
Not exact matches
According to a recent report from Reuters, the tech giant is signing
deals with companies like BuzzFeed, Vox, and Group Nine (the
publisher behind brands like NowThis and The Dodo) for more TV - style
video, both short clips of about 10 minutes in length and longer shows of 20 minutes or more.
Facebook (fb) is reportedly in talks
with major record labels and music
publishers to reach a
deal that would see its billions of users allowed to include music in
videos uploaded to the platform.
As Fortune noted today, Facebook has reportedly signed
deals with companies like BuzzFeed and Vox to create longer - form, TV - style
video content for the social network's
video service, though some
publishers may have reservations about whether it would be worth it for them to do so.
When I announced my new book
deal for How Not to Die
with Macmillan
Publishers, I expressed concern that I'd have to pull back on the NutritionFacts.org new
video schedule.
The features of its iPad
deal with publishers include applications to let students play
video, highlight text, record lectures, take printed notes, search the text, and participate in interactive quizzes to test how much they've learned and where they may need more work.
However, yeah, that's definitely a case where if a
publisher wanted to do something like that, they'd be much better off trying to make a
deal with an existing
video game company than build their own.
Video game fans have always had to
deal with delays, but
publishers got even more use out of their erasers than normal in 2015.
It could also be an advantage when the company
deals with video game
publishers who want to stem or eliminate used game sales from which they earn zero profit.
In this
video, Legal Week
publisher John Malpas talks to Chris McKenzie, head of trusts and estate planning at BVI law firm O'Neal Webster, about the use of trusts and other techniques to
deal with the disruption that can be caused by the death or incapacity of shareholders and directors of a private company.