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The youtube "doom theories" were a lot more plausible 3-4 years ago. Even then none of them came true. What's so special about yet another idiot's opinion on youtube's theoretical demise? Especially when said idiot is the "ceo" of a company trying to sell video hosting services that no one has ever heard of. |
great article.
But this has nothing to do with adult tubes, who exist to parasite off the legitimate porn industry. As long as they get advertising dollars for airing stolen content, they can control their costs to make money. Youtube has a burden of storing non-monetizable content (AKA schlock videos from john q public) that adult tubes do not share. |
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you can never kill it!!!!
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I always wondered why showing ads at amateur videos is not possible and why they're not "monetizable". What's the problem with showing some ad next to the video of some one getting his kids to Disney land?
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btw - proxy |
as long as google is backing youtube it's going nowhere....
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They'll be fine in the short term. Long term is anybody's guess.
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I think thats bullshit regarding the user-generated content, there is plenty of user-generated content that is monetizable and that drive masses of traffic who view and click on ads... for instance https://youtube.com/fred - this kid has 1,046,991 subscribers by himself and growing by the minute
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I guess I'm the only one who thinks Google is sort of a phony. They had one success with one product. Everything else they've done has either been a buyout, or they just copied another service. In fact, adwords was just a copy of Overture.
If they were such a great company they would be innovating more, but honestly, I can't think of one innovation they've had. Don't get me wrong, they've made a shitload of money and deserve every penny of it and even the janitor over there is probably smarter than me. But I think they are a one hit wonder. |
I had actually read an article awhile ago they were thinking about closing it because its a huge cash hog. Also its hard to get the ad dollars when most of the youtube viewing audience probably isnt old enough to have a credit card. If the viacom suit hits them hard,it will interesting to see what happens.
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As all the fiber increases take place the Internet will be far more about video and rich media than text.
If you were a company making great money from text based advertising and also owned the number one video property, you would close it because today its a bit of a liability? I guess there wil be some kind of vonage equivalent for TV, and all kinds of new stuff in the next few years. I'd certainly prefer hedge my bets than bank everything on adsense/adwords. |
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-------------------------------------------------------- For the record I doubt if feeding out thousands of videos to millions of people for free like they have on Youtube is such a great idea. Traffic costs money until it buys something. Just having a surfer on your site is not the solution. Getting him to buy something is. But as we know a lot feel traffic is king and when you have as much money as Google you can write off $600,000,000 a year to prove traffic is king. :1orglaugh Will it change? Would love someone to point out how. Clearly all the clever guys at Google don't know how to. But then maybe one of my detractors has the answer. :1orglaugh |
In this case, traffic does not necessary have to buy something immediatly to be "monetizable". They can show ads that increase brand awareness etc - with all the new tech and flash video banners that's more than possible. Hey they're video site after all.
For example those skater kids who watch other kids skating, they do not necessary have to buy new skate on the spot - you can show tham your flash ad and promo reel to ensure next time they go shopping they remember your brand (meaning, this thing can work the same way TV ads work). |
They have only started the monetization. It would be insane to close youtube.
Besides, all the web 2.0 sites are very hard, if not impossible, to monetize. |
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paul what you are completely clueless about is that youtube get paid to feed people free videos. The people who give away the free videos pay for such a right http://www.google.com/support/youtub...60&ctx=sibling you know that flash scroller that recommend other videos "like this one" guess what people pay for those relevance listing. Down the side where you see similar videos People pay for those listing. I would suspect that 80% of youtube revenue comes from this form of advertising. As more and more stuff user generated stuff get put on youtube it becomes harder and harder to get your stuff found. Which increase demand for this service which increase revenue. |
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There sure is a way to make money with it. It comes down to thinking outside the box,.
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valuation of a business sometimes includes intangibles? Meaning there is value to the business even if it the ad revenue isnt directly associated with youtube
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I just think with all the clever people over there at Google they would of had the answer by now. So what ever the answer is I doubt anyone no GFY has the answer. |
if they keep losing this amount of money, are they going to shut it down eventually?
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Clearly the masters of making money, had a plan to rape youtube of money - as if anyone with a brain thought otherwise. And what better way to do it than having the absolute largest market share for video traffic in the world and opening a VoD service mixed with other micro payments (seeming google is a 3rd party biller too) - It will never stop with them. Guess the ol'YouTube is Doomed idea can be tossed out the window. |
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