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Al Jazeera launches YouTube Channel

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aljazeera.jpgAl Jazeera English today announced the launch of its YouTube Channel. Content will include segments from its top shows such as Frost Over The World, Everywoman, and Inside Iraq.

Al Jazeera is also releasing web-only programs, starting with Political Bytes. The program is a global conversation hosted by its UN correspondent Mark Seddon.

“We believe that YouTube is a perfect platform to reach out to our audience and to give wide and easy access to new viewers around the world. We have significantly built on our distribution since launch and now reach well in access of 90 million cable and satellite households worldwide. With YouTube’s community of millions of online users this is set to dramatically increase,” said Nigel Parsons, Managing Director of Al Jazeera English

Joost do it

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Joost is all over the place forging deals with everyone. Guinness World Records announced that it has agreed a partnership deal with Joost, the online TV distribution platform brought to us by the founders of Skype. Through the partnership, Guinness World Records television will distribute original programming via Joost.

Initially, more than 35 hours of the UK show, Ultimate Guinness World Records, will be available on Joost globally. Additional content will be added each month with Guinness World Records controlling its programming line-up on the platform.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with a company as exciting as Joost, once again this shows how easily Guinness World Records content can be adapted to fit into so many areas of new media and for such varied audiences,” said Rob Molloy, Director of Television at Guinness World Records.

CBS creates CBS Interactive Audience Network

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CBS Corporation announced the creation of the CBS Interactive Audience Network which will initially include new content deals with a host of online distributors including AOL, Microsoft, CNET Networks, Comcast, Joost, Bebo, Brightcove, Netvibes, Sling Media and Veoh. The agreements solidify CBS’s position as the most widely distributed professional content provider on the Web.

Advertising revenue will be shared between CBS and its partners. All content will be available domestically with select clips and full-length sports programming distributed worldwide.

“Today marks an important step in our strategy to distribute content broadly across the online interactive landscape on an open, non-exclusive basis,” said Leslie Moonves, President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Corporation. “Each of these partners offers value to our audience and our advertisers, who can now come to CBS not only for the most watched network on television, but for the most widely distributed professional content online.”