Google Adds Tons Of New Movies To YouTube VOD

Google announced that they will be adding tons of new movies from some pretty big studios to YouTube’s streaming movie service. Making them a bigger competitor in the on-demand streaming movie service scene.

According to Google they struck a deal with Sony, NBC Universal and Warner Brothers to add 3,000 new movies to YouTube’s on demand movie service.  The service will also allow users to stream the movies they rent to their Android devices.

The new service puts Google in direct competition with Apple, Hulu, Netflix and Amazon who all already have a pretty good amount of content, so it might be a little tough going for Google on this one. My guess is they might get quite a few of the people who already use YouTube but might not want to deal with a subscription service like Netflix or Amazon. The new ‘movies’ tab on the YouTube homepage is probably going to get some curious clicks from those people and they might just see something they like and try it out.

The movies cost a little under $4 to rent, you get 30 days to watch the movie and once you start it you have 24 hours to watch the whole thing (pretty familiar to anyone who has ever used VOD)

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YouTube Movie Page

YouTube’s New Live Streams Feature Now Playing

YouTube launched a new streaming service beta on Friday “which will integrate live streaming capabilities and discovery tools directly into to YouTube platform for the first time.” According to a YouTube blog post.

The blog post also states Google’s plans to incrementally roll the Live feature out “over time” to certain YouTube partners with accounts in good standing. As of now users can add events to their calendars, subscribe to channels to get updates and search via their new browsing page, www.YouTube.com/live.

Like other live video streaming sites such as USTREAM and Live Stream there is a chat bar included with the stream so users can comment, ask questions or just generally be annoying during the stream.

This fits in with Google’s reported plan to spend $100 million on commissioning new content exclusively, some say in an effort to compete with cable companies, it seems pretty cool and I’ve already checked out a couple of revision3’s live streams, they were great quality, I have no complaints as of yet.

So go check it out it’s neeeeeato

• Source: YouTube Blog
• Link: YouTube.com/live