Vevo and MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) are having difficulty coming to an agreement over whether Vevo can sell advertising around the Viacom network’s online music player, according to interviews with sources in both camps. As a result, UMG, one of the founding partners of Vevo, has pulled its artists’ videos…

Viacom (NYSE: VIA) showed the true benefits of having the dual revenue streams of advertising and cable, as its networks division, which includes its MTV Networks, saw dollars rise 6.4 percent and profit gain 14 percent. Still the effects of the recession couldn’t be ignored on the revenue front overall,…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q209	Net Inc. vs Q209
Viacom	Release		0.1%	5220%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

After 12 years as Viacom’s chief information officer, Joe Simon is heading to Condé Nast for a similar role. The hire comes two weeks after Robert Sauerberg was promoted to president of Condé Nast from group president, consumer marketing in the wake of David Carey’s defection to Hearst Magazines. As…

Viacom (NYSE: VIA), which purchased online gamer community Xfire for $102 million four years ago, is offloading the business to Titan Gaming. It’s likely that Viacom is getting just a very small fraction of what it paid, considering that Titan Gaming, which is launching a platform that lets game publishers…

MTV has reorganized the heads of its Integrated Marketing Group with the return of MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) sales executive Angela Courtin to the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) company. Courtin will serve as SVP, MTV Integrated Marketing. In conjunction with the new hire, MTV also promoted Jeannie Scalzo to SVP, MTV Integrated…

Clicker is adding Clicker Mobile and Clicker Social to the roster of ways the LA startup is trying to meet its mission to be the guide to internet video. Clicker Mobile includes free apps for Android (due today) and iPhone (waiting approval) with guides to videos that actually play on…

After its popular Rock Band franchise saw sales dwindle last year, MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) has sought to find other ways of building up its gaming holdings. The Viacom company is now looking to capitalize on the social gaming trend and has acquired developer Social Express to continue to build…

Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) has struck a “multi-year” ad sales and digital content partnership with MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) that revolves around music videos. It’s hard not to see this announcement within the context of WMG still being a holdout when it comes to offering its artists’ videos on…

Viacom’s Paramount Home Entertainment will provide Redbox with its new releases on the same day they go on sale, under a long-term agreement. Paramount is joining Sony (NYSE: SNE), Lions Gate, and Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS)—all of which let Redbox rent their new DVDs on the same day they go…

Nearly two years after MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) created its Tribes ad network as a way to extend its cable channels’ ad sales to like-minded websites, the Viacom property is moving into mobile. Mobile Tribes will begin rolling out ads on MTVN’s mobile wap sites, but the major focus will…

After a year and a half since she arrived at Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), ad exec Robin Domeniconi is leaving as the software giant is trying to hire MTV Networks’ Carolyn Everson to head global ad sales, AllThingsD reports, citing unidentified sources. Domeniconi, who took the job of Microsoft’s VP for…

A host of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) competitors have come to the company’s defense in its $1 billion lawsuit with Viacom (NYSE: VIA). In a joint brief filed with the court overseeing the case, Facebook, IAC (NSDQ: IACI), eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) say that some user-contributed information will…

Updated: Some more tidbits from the latest batch of unsealed documents in the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) copyright suit against Google/YouTube, this time from Google. Pushing its own agenda, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) highlights Viacom’s internal discussions about buying YouTube, plays up Viacom’s top lawyer’s defense of YouTube compared to Grokster; and…

Another batch of filings and unsealed documents today in the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) lawsuit against Google/YouTube and another rollicking trip down memory lane. One favorite: a batch of memos between MTV Networks head Judy McGrath and former execs Michael Wolf and Blair Harrison in July 2006 about buying the hot…

Jonathan Nelson, the CEO of Hulu-backer Providence Equity Partners, made the case for the video aggregator on Charlie Rose this week. His response to Viacom’s decision to pull the The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from the site: “Before we sit down next they’ll be part…

Did you expect Philippe Dauman to last this long as CEO of Viacom? (NYSE: VIA) More than a few times, I heard variations of “he’s a lawyer, not an entertainment guy.” Translation: He’s no Tom Freston. True, but the man Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone calls his “forever friend” has been…

If you’re still looking for an explanation of Viacom (NYSE: VIA) CEO Philippe Dauman’s lucrative five-year contract extension, this should help. Revenues dropped 4 percent to $2.79 billion, missing Thomson analyst estimates and dragged down, the company says, by lower film revenues. But Viacom still managed a 21 percent increase…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q109	Net Inc. vs Q109
VIA	Release		4%	38%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Another win for fledgling premium net Epix HD: a deal with Dish Network to offer the service to those of its 14.1 million customers who subscribe to HD. It’s the first national deal for the net, which already has signed up *Charter*, Cox , Verizon FiOS, Mediacom and NCTC. When…

Yesterday the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) board announced a five-year contract extension for CEO Philippe Dauman through 2016 and now that the SEC filing has been made we know about the compensation that goes with it. Effective Jan. 1, Dauman got a $1 million raise to $3.5 million from $2.5 million.…