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YouTube prepares to launch scheduled TV channels

The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is getting ready to launch as many as a dozen TV-like channels with scheduled content to lure viewers away from their TV screens. It is said to have been shopping the ideas around US media firms for several months.

It is said to have cut a range of content deals and is paying “from a few hundred thousand dollars to several million to content creators to create and curate videos for a channel”. Read more »

Huffington Post accused of failing to value bloggers by UK blogging network

One of the UK’s top independent blogging networks has hit out at the Huffington Post’s entry into the UK market and told bloggers not to blog for free for the AOL site which it argues does not value its bloggers despite being valued at more than £315m after its sale.

The call was made by MessageSpace which sells advertising on behalf of some of the UK’s leading political and news blogs including Guido Fawkes, LibDem Blogs, Liberal Vision, Harry’s Place, Political Scrapbook, Total Politics  and UK Polling Report. Read more »