LOS ANGELES — Amazon has taken on YouTube by offering another venue where anyone can post videos and get paid for it. But the e-tailer has made the process much more cumbersome than its main rival.

To see Amazon — arguably the giant in the field — implement a plan was out of the norm for this segment of the market. Second, nearly all companies that offer a direct-purchase plan pay dividends.

Amazon is launching a new video service called “Amazon Video Direct.” The new service entices professional video creators to upload their videos to Amazon, where they will be displayed on the Amazon ...

Amazon has launched its own YouTube-style service that lets people upload their own videos. The service, called Amazon Video Direct, pays people royalties based on three metrics: video rental price, ...

The online giant launches a platform open to any video creator, an in-your-face move to the likes of YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo. Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET News in Manhattan, ...

Amazon has been making big effort lately to attract more enterprise customers, which are traditionally more conservative about technology investments. The company is doing everything it can to make ...

Upending YouTube will be hard, but Amazon's unlikely bet still appears worth the risk. Earlier this month, Amazon announced a new platform, called Amazon Video Direct, which will allow members to ...

Amazon Web Services is now giving its customers the ability to directly connect to their cloud services over a dedicated, private connection, bypassing the internet and turning AWS into an extension ...

Amazon unveiled its own plans to compete in the user-generated video market with the launch of a new service called Amazon Video Direct in a surprise announcement this morning. This service, explains ...