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Article: Vatican logs its own YouTube channel.(Inside Moves)(Youtube.com/vaticanit)(Brief article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- January 26, 2009
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The Vatican has launched its own YouTube channel in what is being touted as a watershed endorsement by Pope Benedict XVI of the new-media age.
The channel, Youtube.com/vaticanit, will feature short clips of papal messages produced by the Vatican's television center and Vatican Radio. These include the 81-year-old pontiff's recent appeal for peace in the Middle East.
The agreement between the Vatican and Google was unveiled in Vatican City. Google managing director of European sales and media solutions Henrique de Castro stressed there would be no advertising on the channel. "Our strategy is to get people to come to our ...