Music Videos barely seem to benefit bands and labels anymore, so it makes sense to start to see replacements emerging from the ashes of MTV (like it or not, MTV has nothing to do with music anymore).

Vevo.com has announced that they will soon be streaming music videos in a manner that would actually provide revenue for the band, label, and/or production company. Users would not be charged a dime, but the income generated through advertising on the site would be split between Vevo and the content-creators. Ironically enough, the folks at YouTube are responsible for Vevo (along with Universal Music Group), so this will likely cause a decrease in the amount of music videos featured there.

On another front, U2 and Anton Corbijn have stepped forward with a new sort of interaction between music and moving images. The deluxe edition of their new album "No Line On The Horizon" contains a film from Corbijn entitled "Linear". While Corbijn claims that this is "not an extended music video", its familiar enough indeed and is intended for users who listen to the album on a computer or mp3 player with video output.

Familiar or not, its still a new attempt at providing value to folks who are willing to pay more money for a deluxe edition of an album. While its debatable whether U2's music sets the perfect backdrop for a film like this, there's no doubt that the potential is there to make some extremely interesting work in the future.