It is doomed in it's current form. I seriously doubt they will keep it in its current form though. But they have been very slow to make changes so who knows.

Yeah, Hulu actually has more revenue than Youtube as well, at least according to analysts reports for 2008 so they know how to do something right.

So Google had all that brand recognition and traffic and Hulu jumped in, signed deals, and is making more than them. Just goes to prove what I've been saying that Google is not innovating nor is it making any smart moves. The whole data mining argument is just nonsense. If google could make more money, they would do it. They're not sitting back and losing money on purpose so they can execute some brilliant plan in the future. If that was the case they wouldn't have hired a specialist to cut costs like crazy these past several months just so they could turn a profit this quarter.

But they are several years late in making deals with movie and TV networks. They were the first big tube site and already they are playing catch up before they even turned a profit. Someone should be fired if you ask me.

Well they were riding on the wave of copyrighted content, and now record companies and media corps are making them take a lot of it off the moment it hits. I tried uploading a song only (i.e. no accompanying music video) to YT, a pretty unknown song, but it was apparently under copyright and the record company got it off YT immediately and I know for sure it wasn't ALWAYS like that. There's absolutely no reason for them to work with YT when YT owes nearly 100% of their clout to those companies...the only reason there's nearly the amount of people there to watch amateur videos there is because they were already there watching clips of shows, music videos, news clips, etc. So those people will slowly but surely migrate to Hulu as the word gets out more. The interesting thing is that Hulu even works with 3rd party sites if it has to - like I think every South Park video on Hulu actually redirects to the video on SouthParkStudios.com.

it is comical... it is failing...

that's the point... sites evolve and youtube as ya know it will too...

YouTube heard us talking: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/YouTub...&asset=&ccode=

I giggle.
:1orglaugh

Or go to another free tube, if you're the kid who's mommy is paying $5/month for youtube you're the village idiot :)

Luckily for Google they can afford it, but it is wonderful to watch all the people here who think giving a product away is the right thing to do. :1orglaugh

This says it all.

Except it could of said "When the traffic doesn't pay the bills.

killing killing...

if they updated thier equipment and bandwidth becomes speedier then the numbers whould fall..

Meaning thier super duper hard drives could be upgraded and the bandwidth loosened.. makeing the nesisary need of bandwidth and storage way easier and im sure they will do this. or will when they cant function any more.

over 50 thousand dollars an hour

Well that is obviously not true is it since if you had ran tubes you would know how easy it is to turn a profit. Youtube cant because they are the extreme, and they cant plaster ads all over the place. The main adult sites dropping right now are the tgp's which everybody seems to be trying to sell for pennies, the tubes are thriving.

some times its not about short term profits! What would be more interesting to know is whether the year-on-year profits(losses) are declining (even percentage wise).

I still back google and youtube ... they are at the front by a long way .. and should stay there for a couple of years.