A.P. Exec Doesn’t Know It Has A YouTube Channel, Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos

It amazing how a news distribution company is so bad at disseminating news within its own company.

It's also sad that we can add one more company to the list of those that refuse to innovate and restructure their business models when the surrounding environment changes.

Finally, it would do AP some good to empower the employees going after someone distributing copyrighted content to use sense and reason when handling these situations. If the AP employee had done a small amount of homework, or approached the situation with the mindset that the radio station should be allowed to explain itself, there might be a better way to handle it. Kind of like that 'I Want You to Apologize' article on the front page last night.

The A.P. with all it's resources or someone similar to it should focus on creating a Internet News channel; CNN on the web!

I use the net instead of cable, but do miss 24/7 news channels!

Up until fairly recently, the only way you could get any reasonably useful feed of the AP wire was via NNTP. I think in my case their RSS feeds went public several weeks after our site launched, but all of my discussions with their technical people left me with the impression that there isn't really much innovation going on at AP.

I wonder how they were monetizing the YouTube channel? It seems like an expensive thing to just give away. Are they getting ad revenue from it?

Anyway, the whole thing is just sad. Their whole legal extortion team must be really depressing to the part of the company running the YouTube channel. (Three people?)

My company works directly with them. I've not been directly involved but I've heard about everything every step of the way. They are slow to change, resistant to doing anything new, and their decisions are chaotic.

Pretty much what you'd expect from a company that almost refuses to adapt to modern times.