YouTube videos gain links to iTunes store
YouTube has added links from promotional and music videos to the iTunes store and AmazonMP3, where you can buy the song featured. The links appear on its website, beneath videos like this one.
Currently, EMI appears to be the only major music label participating in the deal. Electronic Arts has links related to its Spore game to Amazon.com, where you can purchase a copy.
Google (whose CEO, Eric Schmidt, is on Apple's board of directors) has been looking for ways to earn money from YouTube, its $1.6 billion purchase from 2006. YouTube probably already earns some revenue from Apple via a partnership that includes a YouTube player on the iPhone and Apple TV, but the financial details are unknown.
[Via Macworld.]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Squid7085 said 9:11PM on 10-08-2008
Would be nice if it linked to the Music Video (if available) on iTunes. It is however nice to see the corporate world finally embrace YouTube. Took um long enough!
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grull27 said 9:52PM on 10-08-2008
I've seen you post in Engadget. I didn't know you posted in TÚAW! :O
Zyber said 9:24PM on 10-08-2008
I'm still half lock out of my account, Help please?
Anyone...............
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Ethan said 9:33PM on 10-08-2008
I thought google was friends with amazon? Arr, business is strange.
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Ethan said 9:34PM on 10-08-2008
You know what's good? Reading the story before brazenly commenting.
Craig Stanton said 12:40AM on 10-09-2008
"This video is not available in your country."
Thanks YouTube
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Tim said 12:53AM on 10-09-2008
Cant watch YouTube videos? Well what are u waiting for! Move to America where the beer is cold and our economy is crumbling! We've got all the YouTube you can handle! But wait, there's more! Move now and watch as the cost of the dollar slowly goes down the drain!
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Jash Sayani said 3:34AM on 10-09-2008
Re-framed version: Cant watch YouTube videos? Well jailbreak your damn iPhone and download the YouTube fix from Cydia !
Craig Stanton said 3:32PM on 10-09-2008
I can't watch *that* video. YouTube and DRM and all that crap are conspiring to limit content to international borders. What a joke, if anyone should be beyond that sort of stuff it's YouTube/Google, global access man.
Jerry said 1:22PM on 10-09-2008
Is there a way around for desktops and not just jailbroken iPhones?