VEVO, MTV Kiss and Make Up

VIVA LE VEVO: Sources close to VEVO confirm a deal has been agreed to between the premium music video and entertainment platform and Viacom Media Networks. Several of the UMG labels’ exclusive deals with VEVO had excluded MTV Networks from including the videos on their Internet platforms, which seemed to have affected the overall exposure that MTV’s channels had been able to give to those labels’ artist videos. It appears those issues have been resolved and the playing field is now level again for all the majors. Some observers had thought WMG’s refusal to date to join VEVO had given their labels an advantage placing their videos on MTV’s various platforms. Could a Bronfman-less WMG facilitate its own deal with VEVO in the near-future? (12/7p)