YouTube to Spend Millions on Celebrity-Created Content
5:26 AM PST 2/17/2011 by Georg Szalai
The Google-owned video site is reaching out to agencies to sign talent to produce genre-specific, branded channels featuring original short-form content.
NEW YORK – Google’s YouTube seems ready to spend millions on attracting Hollywood talent to improve the quality of its content under recently named CEO Salar Kamangar.
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