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10-10-2006, 08:54 AM
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how the fuck is youtube worth $1.65 billion???
theres no fucken way youtube is worth 1.6 billion dollars.. what is google smoking?
it hasn't even been around for longer than 2 years and it's just a stupid video site made by two 20 year olds. Google can build their own youtube site and get more traffic to it in one day. Freakin amazing.  |
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10-10-2006, 08:55 AM
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it gets something ridculous like 40mil hits a day i think i cant remember
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10-10-2006, 08:57 AM
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10-10-2006, 08:58 AM
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... And by the way, they have their own video site. It's Google Video, you should google it. Youtube beat the crap out of it.
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10-10-2006, 09:01 AM
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Must be the name they want I guess.
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10-10-2006, 09:04 AM
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well... if you own Adsense... youtube.com is probably worth quite a bit to you.
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10-10-2006, 09:08 AM
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Google has a video site, but reaches no where near the number of people that YouTube does. Just wait, in a couple days, you'll see ads slapped all over you tube. It was a wise purchase IMO. Price is high, but if they can run good ads on the videos, they are going to kill the competition. Just my
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10-10-2006, 09:10 AM
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10-10-2006, 09:13 AM
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I would love to know what assets they have to make it worth that $$$
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10-10-2006, 09:16 AM
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the website is the only asset......
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10-10-2006, 09:21 AM
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In my opinion...they are paying for eyeballs. Think about it when movies in the theater start going "On Demand" via the net... Who do you think will be running the show?
Bingo... Youtube. That is just 1 application. Don't get me wrong thats huge money... But google is not stupid. -=Chipmunk=-
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10-10-2006, 09:22 AM
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Get in first. MrSkin made the mark
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10-10-2006, 09:30 AM
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check their traffic numbers.
what a bunch of imbeciles. and this is a webmaster board? Bullshit! |
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10-10-2006, 09:34 AM
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Youtube.com isn't worth anything.. however YouTube (branding) is
 It's becoming part of everyday speech |
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10-10-2006, 09:36 AM
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This thread is 100% proof that some people just do not understand business at all.
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10-10-2006, 09:40 AM
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mmm, branding.
but, I smell a lot of lawsuits coming to youtube/google's way now that youtube has money. and google has google video, it failed miserably. |
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10-10-2006, 09:46 AM
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I also doubt that is cash probably stock
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10-10-2006, 09:56 AM
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because vod is most likley to be the future?!
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10-10-2006, 10:11 AM
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A lot of people have been saying this.....
But if you actually think about it; it makes a lot of sense. I will expain.... Google owns Ad Sense. Google needs traffic to fill out all their Ad Sense deliveries. What was google's last advertising space purchase? 900 Million to MySpace.com. For their 900 Million, Myspace will be able to advertise on MySpace.com but gets no ownership of MySpace right? SO....with this being said....with YouTube what they have decided to do is...Rather than purchase advertising space and walk away with nothing; spend a little more and own full advertising rights and own the site itself. From this perspective it makes a lot of sense. If you want to get into the potential legal issues of YouTube; thats a different can of worms. But I would hope atleast that Google has done their legal research. One last note that applies to ALL businesses. Something is WORTH what someone is will to PAY. So if somebody is willing to pay 1.65 Billion for MySpace; then thats what its worth |
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10-10-2006, 10:53 AM
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10-10-2006, 11:11 AM
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have to say that it sounds pretty smart to do it that why. why not take it all and have something left in the end if you are able to do so. nice explanation
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10-10-2006, 11:13 AM
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they are paying for the name! they'll just rebadge google video as an extension of youtube.. lets be honest google video is hardly a creative name!
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10-10-2006, 11:13 AM
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great question; I am setting meetings with google now to buy companies that I am creating with zero revenue and large bandwidth bills...truely I do not care, but i will sell them
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10-10-2006, 11:20 AM
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Google's market value has gone up over $5.5 Billion over the past 5 days. So they've already made their investment back for the shareholders by a factor of 3 to 1.
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10-10-2006, 11:26 AM
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10-10-2006, 11:29 AM
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i am sure that 2 young multi billionaires running one of the most successful companies ever created on this planet are carefully watching gfy trolls to see if their investments and business decisions meet with the approval of some fruity sig whores.
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10-10-2006, 11:43 AM
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There are two schools of thought about this.
One: There are many people saying that sites like Youtube is the future of Television. They will be cutting deals with TV networks, movie studios, record labels to broadcast movies, TV shows and music videos. They will also continue to allow people to upload their own content and keep the "video community" alive. Think of it like this. Some of the more popular movies on the site get in excess of 500K views. That's about the same number of viewers that watch NHL hockey games on OLN. So if you are among those that feel this is the future of TV than it is well worth that price. TWO: They will eventually get sued so much that they will become a shadow of their former self. There is a ton of copyrighted material on Youtube. Many people think it is the new Napster. Right now if you ask for it to be removed they will remove it, but all it takes is one person to sue them and win and the flood gates will open. They could then be open to a rash of lawsuits by not only the owners of the copyrighted materials, but by the google shareholders as well. If you are of this school of thought it obviously wasn't worth the price. So I would assume that Google feels they can get a hold of the copyrighted materials problem. They and Youtube have already started making deals with record labels to allow their music in videos. In the end Google is worth around 200 billion, so 1.6 isn't a huge risk for them to own something that could end up being revolutionary. |
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10-10-2006, 11:57 AM
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LOL
how the fuck can you question their judgement, you know nothing and they know closer to everything about the trends and what will be big next. They have plans and they will turn this shit into profit, and huge profit that is
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10-10-2006, 12:01 PM
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big money!!!!!!!!!
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10-10-2006, 07:39 PM
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10-10-2006, 07:41 PM
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"Google can build their own youtube site and get more traffic to it in one day"
Google has had a utube like site for a long time now. where have you been? |
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10-10-2006, 07:56 PM
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Retarded, the business plan doesn't even work. They lose money..
I guess Google has to get to big for there britches at some point and fuck up, they have been near flawless until now.
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10-10-2006, 08:22 PM
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how was Mark Cuban's BroadCast.com worth 1.3bil?
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google has been trying to capture video traffic, thats why they launched google video, youtube roxxed their sox, so google bought youtube to capture control of the video search market it actually makes perfect sense
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If the site was taken down and parked it would still be worth a considerable bit, but it would drive don the total of the website over a period of time. But google isn't going to park. They just signed a few new content providers, they got a deal
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10-10-2006, 08:32 PM
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Some ideas that come to mind
Google will control the internet experience overall with its array of offerings to the masses... More eyes to watch all the ads  |
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10-10-2006, 08:46 PM
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The traffic is worth it
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10-11-2006, 12:10 AM
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I hope google did a good investment on that one.
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10-11-2006, 12:13 AM
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No, the traffic is definitely not worth it unless you can shape and retain the traffic in the right channels you want to push.
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10-11-2006, 12:23 AM
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youtube worth what some one is willing to pay
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youtube owns 25% of the world's video traffic
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50 reasons to spend 1,6 billion dollar for a crappy site stuffed with stolen content
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