Muzu TV, one of the companies that demo’d at our recent TechCrunch Meetup in Dublin, has emerged with $8 million dollars in VC with another take on music videos: advertising supported.
It’s built up a library of music related video content (documentaries, TV shows, interviews, tutorials etc) and signed deals with 200 labels, one of which is Sony BMG which has a global artist roster including The Ting Tings, Foo Fighters, Kylie, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce and MGMT.
This is an ad-supported streaming music video site which enables artists, labels, festivals, venues, fans and any other music content owner to broadcast their music TV on the web, “legally” and at no cost. The legal aspect is key – the player is designed to protect copyright holders buy giving the artist control and allowing it to earn revenue from adverts in the video player.
This will crash and buuurn! I tell ya!
sound’s lyk u want it 2………
Great to see the muzu.tv boys out in the public eye. A great Dublin based Startup with some serious backers.
Muzu.tv is a very slick site, very well organized and implemented with tons of custom features. You can see that lots of work has gone into it. It totally cuts through the rubbish that you would get if looking for (illegal) music videos on the likes of youtube etc. Well done to the Muzu team…
is it just me, or is their web site i n c r e d i b l y s l o w? i can’ t even get the embedded video on this article to play.
Yeah, embedded video not playing for me either. TechCrunch’d?
Site is streaming fine for me. Great content, the classic footage from the tube is brilliant
Iz an interesting site, another step towards bringing content legally to battle piracy.
She’s motoring now….
Great site… You just select your music play list and let the player go to work. Lots of unique content. I connect my laptop to my TV and play the music video at parties.
MR
Muzu has good and straightforward site. It’s also great to see clever money injection to go after international markets.
- Fred
Shuckz! What a money making website. Such a sort of sideline for the artists, musicians and record labels. Great business, I must say though….
dis is going to be d biggest thing since youtube,
it’ll prob be biggr
ye never kno, it mite change how we use de net
I really like the idea of Muzu TV. Good quality videos and the backing of the major labels.