{"id":74198,"date":"2009-12-10T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Vevo-Launches-Already-One-of-the-Biggest-Video-Sites-in-the-US-129338.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-10T03:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T08:42:00","slug":"vevo-launches-already-one-of-the-biggest-video-sites-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/74198","title":{"rendered":"Vevo Launches, Already One of the Biggest Video Sites in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/Vevo-Launches-Already-One-of-the-Biggest-Video-Sites-in-the-US-2.png\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/> The label-backed music video site Vevo has finally launched and it&#8217;s off to a good start, in terms of traffic anyway. So much traffic in fact that the service has been rocky for several hours after launch though things should be smoother at this point. The site has been in the works for a couple of years now and features videos from three of the four major music labels though the fourth, Warner Music Group, may joint at some point and is said to be in talks. <\/p>\n<p>It took a while, but it looks like the music industry is finally looking ahead instead of clinging to its old ways, though it remains to be seen if it can manage to create an experience geared towards the fans rather than their wallets. For now, Vevo is claiming that the fans come first and that it will follow Hulu&#8217;s model in this respect, by putting revenue in the back seat, at least until the site can establish itself as the best way to watch music videos online. <\/p>\n<p>And it may just manage that, if only because it&#8217;s becoming the only place to watch music videos. One of the greatest moves the joint venture pulled off was great support from YouTube, which will not only provide the technology for the site but will also send it a huge amount of traffic. Most music videos which YouTube hosted so far, 85 percent, will now be hosted on Vevo an&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Vevo-Launches-Already-One-of-the-Biggest-Video-Sites-in-the-US-129338.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The label-backed music video site Vevo has finally launched and it&#8217;s off to a good start, in terms of traffic anyway. So much traffic in fact that the service has been rocky for several hours after launch though things should be smoother at this point. The site has been in the works for a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}