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Poptub: Google tries best-of-YouTube TV show

by Stephen Shankland

Poptub features, among other things, interviews. Here host Maria Sansone interviews Matt Iseman of Sports Soup.

Poptub features, among other things, interviews. Here host Maria Sansone interviews Matt Iseman of Sports Soup.

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In its latest move to bring some commercial order to the YouTube chaos, Google has begun showing a brief video show called Poptub with perky hosts, amusing videos, promotional interviews, and a prominent Pepsi sponsorship.

The show, called Poptub, is produced by Embassy Row, which is run by Who Wants to Be a Millionaire creator Michael Davies, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The shows will be distributed not just through YouTube but also through the Google Content Network, which can distribute video to Google advertising partners.

Poptub has promised advertisers 3 million views of Poptub by the end of the year, according to the report. More than 100 installments have been prepared, and several are released each day.

Stephen Shankland writes about a wide range of technology and products, but has a particular focus on browsers and digital photography. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux and open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/stshank.
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by Seanathome October 15, 2008 6:36 PM PDT
Wasn't Maria Sansone on Yahoo's The Nine? Not a big career move since "The Nine" and "Poptube" are daily shows that congregate different stuff from the web to feature. It's not that bad of a show, actually. It (hopefully) allows me to discover new and exciting stuff on youtube. :)
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by poetsloft7 October 16, 2008 8:44 AM PDT
Hi CNET,

Good show! I hope this also include some of the lesser known talents - a lot of people

who work very hard... like Celebbb & CDMagz & qswfeh2121 & myself (poetsloft7) !

PLease don't forget the little guys & girls - thanks,


God bless,

Brian
Man In The Mirror
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by celebbb December 27, 2008 4:14 PM PST
To Brian [Man In the Mirror:
We can see where your comming from...there are so so many people on sites like youtube.com that are screaming to be heard. It is unfortunate that the pot of gold on such web sites is defined by "subscriber numbers, comments and views".

As Celebbb says, numbers are fictionial...the heart and sole live forever.
The little guy is unfortunately categorized by his subscriber numbers. We have found the greater talent is among the smaller guy. The ones that push into so called fame... are equiped with expensive recording equipment and a network of YOUTUBE FRIENDS.
Its all about " who you know'.
Celebbb will promote anyone on the tube..."we have seen true talent ignored .
sincere
god bless
meriah.jason.the pilot cdrew [ i c o E
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