Middio indexes most popular music videos of YouTube
May 13, 2007
Launched in May 2007, Middio makes an effort of properly tagging the most popular music videos uploaded by members to YouTube. Although the music videos are hosted by YouTube, they can be searched for and watched on Middio without ads (for the moment…).
Middio only indexes music videos that were lawfully uploaded to YouTube by either the artist or studio owning rights to it. Videos uploaded by fans do not seems to be indexed, which reduces the power of community, but should allow the music videos not to be removed for copyright violations and thus to remain available in a long term…
Middio claims that the only videos they index are uploaded by Sony BMG, Interscope, UMG, and tons of artists who own the rights to their work.
Over 5000 music videos were already indexed before the launch of the website, and more than 10000 were supposed to be available at the launch.
You can follow the Middio blog for more information on coming evolutions of the service.
