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The Wall Street Journal expects the next generation of YouTube to begin next week with Channels, a handful of hubs focused around a particular theme that feature hours of original programming.
But more than just shoehorning these channels into the current working design of YouTube, the entire site is expected to be reorganized around these channels and is expected to have companies such as IAC and NewsCorp producing video content for the site.
This comes almost 7 months after YouTube pledged to throw down £63 million on original content for the site, and now it seems like it could finally come to fruition. I just hope it isn’t a bunch of reality webisodes. [WSJ]
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Hmmm, Interesting. Google is also supposed to launching a music store and of course the Galaxy Nexus shortly, could they be planning an apple style content blitz to go with their new device.
As a YT partner be interested to see what comes of it.
Certainly the first I’ve heard of it :S