Update: Google have responded by stating this move was originally available in other countries and was rolled out last month to Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, and Sweden. They directed us to a post where the following was apparently the case:
A recent study found that after watching a music video on YouTube, 50% of adult users in the U.K. then go on to purchase music from that artist.
Google’s YouTube today last month rolled out an action based “Buy Song” advertisement that allows users to purchase the song they’re watching on YouTube in iTunes.
The move comes came shortly after the Performing Rights Society couldn’t reach a licensing agreement with YouTube in the UK.
It is believed that the advertisement is generated dynamically by searching for the meta fields in the video including the title and description.
Is the music industry and YouTube finally getting along? Tech Wired is currently waiting for comment from Google.
It’s confirmed. Freeview sent a take down notice to YouTube requesting they remove the Freeview spoof ad created by comedians Dan Ilic and Marc Fennel.
Head of Corporate Communications & Public Affairs at Google Australia, Rob Shilkin, confirmed today to Margaret Simons over at Crikey the following:
“We don’t ordinarily comment on individual videos or any DMCA notices that may be filed, but due to some confusion that is circulating online, I’ve made some enquiries internally”
“I wanted to confirm that we received a DMCA notice for lawyers acting on behalf of Freeview Australia Limited to remove the video in question. More information on the DMCA process is here: http://www.youtube.com/t/dmca_policy“
Freeview Marketing Manager, Liz Howarth stated to Margaret yesterday that:
“It did not happen,”
It seems Freeview didn’t like Dan and Marc’s idea of stating what they thought.
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It’s great to see the YouTube community getting together to make sense of the details at hand.
