ITV Chairman Calls Google's Youtube and Joost, "content Parasites"
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When you can't beat competitors (out of frustration), start throwing names at them. This is exactly what ITV executive chairman, Michael Grade did at the IBC broadcast conference in Amsterdam last Friday when he said that online video websites like Youtube, Joost or dailymotion were merely parasites. ITV plans to invest more than GBP 1 billion annually in content creation and TV shows, much of which will almost certainly find it way on one of the websites...
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