YouTube Adds Television Shows and Movies
YouTube has finally created a section for official telelvision shows and movies, which are ad supported and from networks like Crackle, CBS, MGM, Lionsgate, and Starz. A quick glance shows episodes of Alf, Married With Children, Charlie’s Angels, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure cartoon, and tons more for TV. For movies there’s a few gems like Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Slacker, and Night of the Living Dead which I must say is quite impressive. From the ‘Tube itself:
To help you navigate through all this great content, we’re introducing two new tabs to the YouTube masthead: the “Shows” tab allows you to browse shows by genre, network, title and popularity, while the “Subscriptions” tab will grant logged-in users one-click access to fresh content from their favorite creators.
Another change you’ll notice today is the wider roll-out of in-stream ads, which we’ve been testing since October, to support our shows and movies content — not unlike what you might see when viewing this type of content on TV.
While shows and movies are currently limited to users in the U.S., we look forward to expanding to other regions as soon as possible, and we’re pleased to inform you that the “Subscriptions” tab will be available worldwide in the next few weeks.
It looks to be YouTube’s answer to Hulu, which has been poaching viewers from just about everything out there (including traditional TV). Should be pretty interesting to see what other shows and films pop up soon.
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