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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tarekul09" data-source="post: 6145164" data-attributes="member: 256481">Universal, YouTube to launch music video siteWASHINGTON: Universal Music Group (UMG) and YouTube announced plans on Thursday to launch a music video website featuring artists from  the world's largest music company.Universal, a subsidiary of France's Vivendi, and Google, which owns YouTube, said the website, to be called VEVO, would be launched later this year.Universal and YouTube also said they had renewed an agreement that allows users of YouTube to use music by Universal artists in user-generated videos on the popular video-sharing website. Details of the agreement were not disclosed.The two companies said in a statement that they will share advertising revenue on YouTube and VEVO, which they described as a "premium online music video hub built for consumers, advertisers and content owners.""This content will be exclusively available through VEVO and a new VEVO channel through a special VEVO branded embedded player," they said."VEVO will bring the most compelling premium music video content and services to the world's single largest online video audience," said Universal chief executive Doug Morris."We believe that at launch, VEVO will already have more traffic than any other music video site in the United States and in the world."Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said the Internet search giant, which will provide the technology for VEVO.com, is "thrilled to be working with UMG in what will surely be an exciting new service for consumers, advertisers, content creators and the music industry at large."Music videos are among the most popular content on YouTube, which Google bought for 1.65 billion dollars in October 2006, and Universal's channel is already the most-watched on the site with more than 3.5 billion views.Mountain View, California-based Google has been striving for ways to make money on YouTube while avoiding alienating notoriously transient Web users and assuring film and music studios that video copyrights are being respected.Warner Music Group pulled its videos from YouTube in December after the companies failed to reached agreement on fees but another major label, Sony Music Entertainment, inked a new deal with YouTube this year.YouTube began blocking certain copyrighted music videos in Britain and Germany earlier this year while new licensing deals are negotiated.As album sales decline and online piracy bites into their profits, major record labels have been forging new arrangements such as deals with MySpace, Apple's iTunes and YouTube to generate new revenue streams.The number of US Internet users watching videos at YouTube hit a new monthly high in January, topping 100 million as it dominated the online video arena, according to comScore.</blockquote>

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