{"id":30279,"date":"2012-01-13T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/youtube_redefines_tv_with_00_million_plan\/"},"modified":"2012-01-13T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T17:35:00","slug":"youtube_redefines_tv_with_00_million_plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30279","title":{"rendered":"YouTube redefines TV with $ 100 million plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R.J. Williams, host and founder of Young Hollywood&#8230;is betting most of his personal savings and free time that two things will make him a next-generation media titan: hard work and YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>That bet goes both ways. Beginning this month, YouTube is gambling $100 million that by seeding professional production firms such as Young Hollywood &#8212; whose slate of YouTube-only programming premieres Monday &#8212; it will draw more eyeballs for longer viewing sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Williams calls the online video giant&#8217;s move a &#8220;game-changer&#8221; and argues that the growing number of stars who sit on his white sofa &#8212; Cruz came to see Williams straight from Jay Leno&#8217;s Tonight Show couch &#8212; spotlights the emerging clout of Web-only shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/NEWS\/usaedition\/2012-01-12-YouTube-cover_CV_U.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R.J. Williams, host and founder of Young Hollywood&#8230;is betting most of his personal savings and free time that two things will make him a next-generation media titan: hard work and YouTube. That bet goes both ways. Beginning this month, YouTube<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30279\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,94,582,589,149,597,93,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-blogging-the-internet","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-movies-television","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}