Google to Launch Video Marketplace

LAS VEGAS, NV – Jan. 6, 2006 – Live from the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced the planned opening of the Google Video store, the first open video marketplace enabling consumers to buy and rent a wide range of video content from a major television network, a professional sports league, cable programmers, independent producers and film makers. This fast growing collection of videos will include prime-time and classic hits from CBS, a full slate of NBA games from this season and outstanding performances from the past, music videos from SONY BMG, Charlie Rose interviews as well as news and historical content from ITN and new titles being added everyday.

"Google Video will let you watch lots of high quality video on the web for the first time. You can search and browse, and we make it fast and easy for you to watch," said Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president, Products...

Available soon, people who visit the Google Video homepage at http://video.google.com will be able to browse listings of video by category from the store or search Google's entire collection of videos by simply entering keywords into the search box.

Additional highlights of Google's video collection will include:

• Music videos from SONY BMG.
• Historic, news and educational footage from ITN.
• Clips from Getty Images' Archive Films Collection.

There will be thousands of titles for sale in the Google Video store with more titles added everyday. The list of content producers will also include ... Wilderness Films India Ltd.

About Google Inc.
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Source: http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/video_marketplace.html

 

A new year for Google Video

Googler insights into product and technology news and our culture.

Till now, Google Video has been about watching videos and clips online, which is really convenient ... But wouldn't it be awesome to watch that episode of CSI that you missed when even your trusty DVR failed you? This is one reason we've launched the Google Video store, where you can rent or buy from such well-known media partners as CBS, the NBA, The Charlie Rose Show, and SONY BMG.

We’re not only about mainstream content, though -– we have thousands of titles available (and more coming every day) from every imaginable type of producer, including this 1896 clip of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II – one of the earliest known moving images. We’re especially pleased to offer such quality indie features as Ben Rekhi’s Waterborne (Drops Entertainment) and Lerone Wilson’s Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks (Boondoggle Films).

You can play all the videos you download using the all-new Google Video Player. We're especially pleased about the thumbnail navigation for browsing an entire video so you can play any portion with a single click. And there's another thing: if the content is not copy-protected, you can take your favorite videos with you on your iPod or PSP -- our "to go" option.

Since it's so early in the year, here's a resolution we intend to keep: make sure new features and content continue to roll out, so that you think Google Video is one of the best ways to find video on the web.

These video providers are getting us off to a great start:

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• WFIL: Wilderness Films India Ltd. is a leading producer and library of stock footage captured in India and across Asia. WFIL will offer 100 hours of high quality video, both free and for sale, on Google Video. Topics vary from helicopter skiing in the Himalaya, broadcast coverage of an Everest climb, and rare wildlife such as the takin and the clouded leopard to imagery spanning India's art, culture, technology, peoples, cities, and rural areas.

1/09/2006 10:16:00 PM
Posted by Sanjay Raman, Google Video Team

Source: Google Video Blog  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/new-year-for-google-video.html