<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2279fb14-aee2-4a64-a376-6b584a8a2b0f/88E50B1E-ABA8-437E-A8B7-4E360E6AB821/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mashable.com/2008/11/06/youtube-full-length-movies/" href="http://mashable.com/2008/11/06/youtube-full-length-movies/" style="font-size: 11px;">mashable.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2008/11/06/youtube-full-length-movies/">YouTube is set to begin offering full length feature films within “30 to 90 days” according to CNET. Parent company Google is said to be <A target="_blank" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10083481-93.html" linkindex="71" set="yes">discussing a deal</A> with at least one of the major movie studios that would bring ad-supported movies to the Web’s most popular video sharing site, which recently started testing <A href="http://mashable.com/2008/10/10/youtube-begins-streaming-full-length-shows-from-cbs/" linkindex="72">full-length TV shows</A> as well. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2008/11/06/youtube-full-length-movies/">As CNET points out, YouTube has had a dicey relationship with the movie studios since inception – much of their early success was based on the ability to view TV and movie clips that had been posted illegally, and <A href="http://mashable.com/2007/03/13/viacom-youtube/" linkindex="73" set="yes">Viacom sued the company</A> for $1 billion in damages. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2008/11/06/youtube-full-length-movies/">Google’s considerable financial muscle behind it, they are now looking to make nice with the studios – largely so they can get more easily monetizable content on the site. While YouTube enjoys a considerable advantage in terms of traffic over its competitors, user-generated video has proven difficult to sell ads against, despite a number of <A href="http://mashable.com/2008/10/02/youtube-postroll-ads/" linkindex="74" set="yes">new ad formats</A> introduced by Google recently. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/88E50B1E-ABA8-437E-A8B7-4E360E6AB821/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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