Disney sign landmark YouTube channel deal

pimg src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45623000/jpg/_45623655_youtube203152.jpg" align="left" width="203" height="152" alt="YouTube" border="0" vspace="4" hspace="4"/pp class="first"b Walt Disney and YouTube have signed a new deal to allow Disney to launch its own channels on the video sharing website./bp Highlights from Disney's ESPN sports channel and clips from its TV shows will be made available to watch over the next couple of months. /pp A key part of the agreement is that Disney will have the right to put adverts in its output. /pp YouTube is keen to be seen as an outlet for high quality video. /pp In a statement, a Disney spokesperson said the deal offers quot;the opportunity to reach a broader, online audience as well as extend the reach of our advertisersquot;. /pp YouTube is by far the world's most popular video sharing website. /pp However, it's coming under more pressure from Google to start converting its huge user numbers into cash./phrpThis article is from the a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk"BBC News website/a. #169; British Broadcasting Corporation/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed?a=1d1BnSOyLVE:ASylgAarv_M:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed?i=1d1BnSOyLVE:ASylgAarv_M:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed?a=1d1BnSOyLVE:ASylgAarv_M:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed?i=1d1BnSOyLVE:ASylgAarv_M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed?a=1d1BnSOyLVE:ASylgAarv_M:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/bbcnewstechnologyfullfeed/~4/1d1BnSOyLVE" height="1" width="1"/

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