Google has a Belgian version of Youtube released. Belgians can thus, inter alia, the most popular videos from their own country on the homepage. Also, the company has an agreement with a collecting society Sabam.
With the local version of the ability to see the Belgians faster the most popular films of their country on the homepage of the site. New is in particular the agreement with the collecting society Sabam. Belgian musicians and composers, thanks to the agreement, paid for the appearance of their clips on Youtube.
With the introduction of the Belgian version makes Youtube, a subsidiary of Google, also announced that with a number of broadcasters in the sea is gone. The French-speaking channel RTBF is going to be a part of his programs that are on the websites, available via the video site. It is expected that in the near future also Flemish stations to be added.
The local version follows at a relatively late compared to other countries. For instance, in 2007 the local Dutch Youtube version was introduced. From that time shows the ability to the directed video’s of the channels of Dutch contentaanbieders as the VPRO and Now. Youtube has worldwide contracts with various local contentaanbieders, including the BBC and France 24.