MTV Launches MTVMusic.com

MTV has just launched MTVMusic.com, where they offer over 16,000 music videos a la YouTube, but with fewer notices and DMCA takedowns. This, however, is offset by the six separate agreements and privacy statements that must be accepted. Thankfully, at the time of writing the MTV Music website was making this process easier, by having you click off only a single checkbox. With Firefox as your browser, even that’s automated, as it will check the accept box whenever any agreement is viewed.

Here is “Viva Mozilla!” from Rick Astley … not really, but “Never Gonna Give You Up” is close enough for MTV fans.




They also have a set of APIs and development tools that allow you to incorporate their content into your own creations.

Primarily designed for web developers, application builders, and mash-up makers, there's a lot you can do with the MTV Networks Content API. Here are a few sample projects:

• Build a music video gallery of MTV, VH1, CMT or LOGO artists.
• Create an application to send music video dedications to friends on Facebook, MySpace, Flux or just about any other social network.
• Mine our expansive music video archive to create the music application of your dreams.
• Fashion a WordPress plug-in to dynamically pull music videos into blog posts.

Let’s see what you can come up with!

Cybercast credit: MTVMusic