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kane · 10-06-2006, 11:25 PM

I just read a big article about Youtube and the owners of the site think putting commercials in front of each video would be suicide. They think what brings people to the site is the freewheeling "community" nature of the site and if they add a 20 second commercial to a 40 second video people will stop coming in there.

They have been doing some experiments with banners and they even are having companies make funny commercials and they put them on the site. There was an AMX commercial that got 500,000 views. So I would think, if they were smart, they would do more of that and try to find new ways to make revenue from the videos.

Then again if I created the site and google just handed me 1.6 billion, I wouldn't give two shits about what they did with it.

10-06-2006, 11:25 PM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	I just read a big article about Youtube and the owners of the site think putting commercials in front of each video would be suicide. They think what brings people to the site is the freewheeling "community" nature of the site and if they add a 20 second commercial to a 40 second video people will stop coming in there. They have been doing some experiments with banners and they even are having companies make funny commercials and they put them on the site. There was an AMX commercial that got 500,000 views. So I would think, if they were smart, they would do more of that and try to find new ways to make revenue from the videos. Then again if I created the site and google just handed me 1.6 billion, I wouldn't give two shits about what they did with it.