Rumour: YouTube getting full length feature films
Expect ads... lots of ads.
According to one unnamed exec from one unnamed entertainment company, YouTube is on the cusp of starting to stream proper full-length feature films to its users, alongside all the Star Wars babies and laughing fat kids.
Negotiations are still in progress, but it could be arriving fairly soon. “It's going to happen,” said the insider “I would say you can expect to see it, if all goes well, sometime within the next 30 to 90 days."
This will take Google’s service into direct competition with Hulu, a website that already does large-scale ad-supported video streaming. Annoyingly, you can’t watch Hulu outside the US, but if Google starts treading more directly on its turf, then it’s possible that these companies will start taking the fight to a more global arena. We live in hope, at least.
The sticking point at the moment appears to be the generation and divvying up of ad revenue. It’s also not clear how many adverts will appear on the stream nor whether they’ll interrupt the viewing or come before the showing. Our guess is that whatever Google and the studios decide, it’ll be quite a punishing ratio of movie to adverts.
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Posted by Al Warmington on 2008-11-07
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This will take Google's service into direct competition with Hulu, a video streaming site that already does large-scale ad-supported video streaming.
