Youtube has Full-Length TV Shows

Youtube goes one step further in his way to be the video portal with more supply of the world, regardless of the content created by users. The U.S. chain CBS has decided to, in a strategy to increase revenue, cast their classic and current series of Showtime (owned by CBS Corporation) on Youtube. The initiative offers whole chapters of Living Sensation, Star Trek, Dexter and Californication.

But the thing will not stay there. Netco, a company dedicated to the analysis of Internet services and new technologies, expected to supply TV series, both past and present, on the Web grow in the coming months through YouTube. This strategy is part of an attempt to add the production of Hollywood on the Internet because this type of programming is very attractive to advertisers, according to the company.

Shiva Rajaram, project manager for YouTube, said the company decided to start with this plan because the pieces of these sets are very popular on the site. “Users are asking for the day and night,” said Rajaram. In addition, is Youtube in negotiations with other companies to try to introduce movies on the Web video, Lionsgate is a possible candidate.