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Rajshri.com has changed its positioning and the current design and layout makes it look like an ad driven free to view video site. Though the pay to download model is still being pursued by Rajshri the current revenues indicate that till now only advertising has worked for them as 95% of their revenues come via [...]

Last month the guys at Contests2Win brought the good ol’ dumb charades online with their brand new site - YouCharade.com. WATblog decided to go browse around on what seemed an intriguing concept, and here is what we thought of it all. Back in May we had reported C2W coming up with a WebCharades concept site, while the name didn’t remain the idea has come out quite well.

After a looong weekend WATShow is back! We caught up with someone who would primarily be associated with the offline media industry but who is well versed with the online video and its potential.
 
We spoke to Jai Maroo the Director of Shemaroo and posed the following questions to him..
1) Do you think video entertainment is [...]

Yashraj Films one of the biggest Movie Production Houses in India have announced a tie up with watchindia.tv and tinselvision by which they would be making available full movie downloads of movies made under the Yash Raj banner.
 
Tinselvision will cater to the US market and will charge a pay-per-view fee from $4.99 (for the classics) [...]

We had blogged earlier how youtube is going to soon launch an Indian site focussing on Indian content. Also we had questioned whether many of the youtube clones would be able to survive given youtube’s entry. Now it seems some entrepreneurs are looking at videos that are instantly monetizable by focussing on brand videos rather [...]

Youtube is planning an India specific video sharing site by the domain name of youtube.in to be launched next year i.e. 2008 between January and March. Even though currently not more than 1% of youtube’s traffic and videos come from India but even then Youtube finds India a lucrative enough market to launch and Indian [...]

We had recently reviewed around 20 Indian video sharing sites…
Now lets see what the 2 most promising ones are up to and we are also including a small mention about some new players in the scene.
 
Lets talk about Rajshri first. Well Rajshri was in the news recently for releasing the film Hattrick online. Now they [...]

We recently posted a review of around 20 Indian YouTube clones and you would have noticed that some of the sites were paying their users to load videos, primarily to promote usage and also get content. In January we had posted that YouTube was looking at exploring revenue sharing with it’s users.
And now…
YouTube has finally [...]

Business Standard: An Indian YouTube clone, Meravideo.com, is close to getting $1.5 million venture capital funding Kanwaldeep S Kalsi, Head, Braingain Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., said: “The money, which is for an initial period of 8-9 months, will be spent on infrastructure, bandwidth scalability, manpower and public relations and marketing of the site.” MeraVideo is a [...]

Universal Music Group filed lawsuits against  two video-sharing Web sites Grouper.com and Bolt.com  for copyright laws  violation and by allowing users to share music clips and other content without permission.
Grouper.com was acquired by Sony pictures in August for $65 million. Universal Music agreed to a content licensing agreement with YouTube and negotiated licensing deals with [...]

After our Part 1 and Part 2 of the India 2.0 series we are back again this time with Part 3 with special focus on Video sharing sites or in short YouTube clones.
Youtube has been internationally popular for some months now but till now we were yet to see any significant Indian website being launched [...]