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YouTube No Longer Top Site for Music Video?

From Chris Salmon, Guardian:

This time last year, MySpace was the undisputed champion of social networking sites. Now, chances are you and your friends have taken your virtual banter to Facebook. Even the web's mightiest sites can tumble from grace when something better comes along.

Which brings us to Joost. When details of the on-demand web TV site were announced in January, tech bloggers began labelling it "the YouTube killer". Created by the founders of Skype and Kazaa, Joost was to use ad funding to provide full-screen, full-length video content at broadcast quality, for free. The player was finally made available to download from joost.com in October. Since then, music has established itself as one of the site's main draws. Browse its Music and Music Entertainment sections - the difference between the two isn't clear - and you'll find several dozen channels dedicated to bands, labels and genres, from tango to trance.

Update: I downloaded Joost and while it is a nice package, the selection of music in no way compares to what can be found on YouTube.

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MySpace to Showcase Music and Sell Performance Videos

By Brian Stelter, New York Times:

MySpace, the social networking site where people create home pages and embellish them as they would a dormitory room, plans today to start positioning itself as a top destination for buying exclusive musical performances.

In a program called Transmissions, MySpace is inviting musicians to choose a studio and select the songs they want to perform. MySpace will show and sell videos of the performance.

It could be perceived as an Internet variation of the popular series “MTV Unplugged,” but with a revenue stream built in. When musicians participate in the MTV series, their work is sometimes released as albums months or years later. On MySpace, the work will be available immediately.

MySpace will let distributors set their own prices.

“We’re enabling artists to choose how they want to distribute their music,” Mr. Brooks said.James Blunt, a singer-songwriter whose signature hit is “You’re Beautiful,” will be the first artist to participate in Transmissions, introducing five songs, including a new single, on the site today. Mr. Blunt said he appreciated the flexibility offered by the Transmissions format.

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Independent Artists Sell Music, Videos on iTunes With TuneCore

From the site:

TuneCore Video (currently in Beta) will deliver your music videos to iTunes, where your fans can buy them for download. TuneCore CANNOT currently deliver shorts, TV shows, movies or any other video that is not specifically a MUSIC VIDEO. After your video has been purchased, the money it earned will go into your TuneCore My Account page for you to take any time you want, day or night, by check or PayPal. As always, TuneCore takes NONE of the money from the sales of your music or music videos: you will receive 100% of the money from the sale of your music video. TuneCore Video is non-exclusive, we take none of your rights or masters, and you can cancel at any time. There is no charge if you would like your video removed from iTunes after the first six months.

Here are all the fees you'll ever encounter at TuneCore Video (all fees one-time only):

Digital delivery of a music video to iTunes for more by length:

0 to 5:00 minutes: $85
5:01 to 10:00 minutes: $175
10:01 to 20:00 minutes: $250
20:01 to 30:00 minutes: $350
30:01 to 40:00 minutes: $425

Resubmitting a music video: $50
Requesting a music video be taken down from iTunes within the first six months: $20
Annual maintenance and storage fee, per video: $19.98

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