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- kajoob, on 10/12/2007, -4/+96This was on ESPN's page 2 today, pretty much sums it up:
Reason No. 877: Youtube.com
Just in the past week, I watched a clip of an old Mike Tyson interview with Jim Gray where he repeatedly praises Allah, then vows to eat Lennox Lewis' children. I watched a clip of A-Rod wiping down his bat during a game in the most inflammatory way possible. I watched a montage clip of horrible Jets draft picks over the years, followed by the crazed reactions of the Jets fans as the picks were announced (did anything top the Jeff Lageman pick?). I watched a clip of an interview in which an aging Iron Sheik repeatedly vowed to, um, humiliate other wrestlers in the most emotionally scarring way possible. I watched the famous clip of Joe Namath trying to kiss Suzy Kolber. I watched the clip of the "boom goes the dynamite!" guy for the umpteenth time. I even watched the clip of Roddy Piper slamming the coconut against Jimmy Snuka's head.
So here's my question: In a million years, did you ever think this would happen? One decade ago, I didn't even have an e-mail address or know what the Internet was ... now I can watch Piper slam a coconut against Snuka's head whenever I want? What will the world be like 10 years from now? Is it possible to procrastinate for 24 hours a day? Are we headed that way?
God Bless YouTube. - mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -4/+69I'd rather spend the $1 million per month on actually attending the girlfights and asian karaoke
- canadianguy33, on 10/12/2007, -2/+62200 terabytes downloaded per day. Yikes!
- finkployd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32They are probably wondering why it's taking so long for someone to buy them out.
Most "businesses" that start up as a free service hope to be bought out because they themselves can't start charging people. This makes them look evil. Let someone else buy them --> charge for new things --> now they don't care what the new people do because they are so busy buying new pants to hold the wads of cash they given. - rastan, on 10/12/2007, -14/+44WTF does this have to do with YouTube? Are you just a corporate shill for the company running the drug trial or are you just misguided?
Commence burying this comment, but seriously, I had to ask. - jgee, on 10/12/2007, -10/+38You are the new idiot.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25They'll probably sell out to Yahoo soon.
- btipling, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19RTFA, it says they use Limelight
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Forbes.com has an insane amount of ads, was anyone else annoyed by this. Now that I think about it, I'm suprised that youtube doesn't have as many as forbes does.
- psyon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18The owners and operators are just using the service to build their own private porn collection. I bet they have teams of people that watch every new submission, and copy any video that shows a tit to a special place for them to keep forever. Such a porn collection might also be good for blackmail in the future :)
- streetstealth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15This moment made possible by network neutrality.
Keep it so! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I'm sorry, but I only watch girl fights where clothes come off. I don't watch two manly dykes duke it out..
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Getting funding doesn't make you rich.
- skatingrox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14You forgot the Filterset.G Updater. I haven't seen a single ad since i've installed it.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16Yahoo doesn't want them.
- stevevance, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12The ads were slowing my computer. I could hardly scroll. This isn't normal for me when I web browse. Well, it's similar to browsing MySpace.
- bairy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Whilst I'm waiting for my uploads to finish at a whopping 256kbps, I did some (rough) comparisons on that 200tb per day:
= 200tB a day is 2.37gB per second. That's a 300 gig hard drive done in just over 2 mins
= If you are on a 2 megabit connection, you could download about 645 gigs of data in a month. Youtube ship that in 4mins 30secs - 9,739 times faster.
= If you have a website and you have 100 gigabytes bandwidth a month, it would be gone in about 40 seconds.
= A dvd9 transferred in around 4 seconds.
What I'd like to know is what kind of server power can filter and output 2,300 mB per second, every second. - sremick, on 10/12/2007, -13/+21What's an ad?
Firefox + AdBlock - MontyZooma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I can't imagine that this company is going to survive at this rate. I bet they're hoping someone gobbles them up and are hemorrhaging cash until it happens.
- fingiecrookie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Just like flickr, right? Yahoo! spent millions to buy them out, and to this day the service is still costing them money on a day-to-day basis just to keep the servers running.
Of course YouTube is the hype of the day, but I don't see the point in buying out a free service like YouTube or flickr unless there's a solid business model backing it up.
@JoeWall: Exactly, now we're talking. - Xibby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Good lord Forbes.com sucks until you click on the print article link.
http://www.forbes.com/2006/04/27/video-youtube-myspace_cx_df_0428video_print.html - manfrin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@ inter
13-18 year old kids may not have money, but they have their parents money. The documentary "Merchants of Cool" explains this better than I could here, I suggest you rent it, it's pretty good. - GuineaPig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Host the popular videos as torrent files.
- TheBrandman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Apples are the new oranges.
- leonbev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah... It looks like some VC investors didn't learn their lesson from the dot-com bust.
- jamiem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Truthfully, the only stuff I watch there is material that shouldn'tbe there legally.
- JoeWall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8if i was in charge at youtube, i would insert 5 second ads before the videos
- TheRappingShoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7In that case; everyone click on the adds to kill YouTube! :D
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Is this really news? This is how most VC operations work these days. Build your name/image, get some users and then you sell out. The suits figure out ways to build on your brand and make money while you enjoy the money. YouTube will end up being turned into an online video store. Free content will simply be a way of luring people in.
- CaffiendCA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5They'll be rich when they sell the company.
- glitchp-udd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6youtube has two options:
1. run out of money
2. get sued out of business
it's really just atom films v2.0. it's not bringing you anything new...just a conventient way to steal copyrighted content. now, i happen to like a lot of content i find there....but none of it is legal and it won't last.
and they don't offer any of the benefits of rss feeds with enclosures, creative commons licensing, etc. sites like blip.tv, etc. don't have the legal problems. and they have a lot more options for making $$ because they're not trying to make that $$ off of stolen content. all of these sites are gonna burn thorugh a TON of bandwidth tho. - interiot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6As some of the podcasters are mentioning... why all the internet focus on the 13-18 year old crowd? It's not like they're the ones who have the money to spend. For example, Engadget... is it mostly read by college kids and recent grads? Or is it mostly read by half-naked teenagers?
Yes, the sidekick has become popular among teenagers. But most other kinds of tech spending is done across a wide age range, or at the very least, includes recent grads. - cardinale, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I have to so that $1 million a month is not bad at all. The brand is worth far more than that already.
- SouthernDigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4tiny ad spots? with the traffic that youtube gets, those ad spots are seen by more people than superbowl ads!
- kmonihen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4How could they accuse YouTube of click fraud if you clicked the ad?
- latour, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5they have google ads
- RoboPimp3000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Obviously you don't know what Lasik is either. Lol - people don't "buy" eye surgeries online. And quit trying to promote your blog. It really sucks.
- GuineaPig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4They can embed their ads in the video itself.
Alternatively, they can keep paying through the nose for bandwidth to pursue its logical end: bankruptcy. Either way, it's their skin, not mine. The Internet won't collapse without the grainy filmed tripe they're so popular for. - acorn22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3too much free time?
same here! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I can't imagine ads covering that type of hosting bill, let alone paying the employees, office, etc. Don't people who invest expect their money back plus interest?
- Bishoco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4They need to start putting some ads up or something. What exactly is their strategy for making money if they don't start putting up ads?
- 4tygames, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How about ads only on the most popular videos?
That is what IGN does.
And why does YouTube not offer any form of video download? Google Video allows you to download in the iPod video format or the PSP video format. YouTube could run an ad before they let you hit the download button. - jbestrom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Hahahaha I bet you are right..
- CaffiendCA, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5$1,000,000 is nothing! The can easily make many times more than that, as they have the MySpace demographic. Some big money media conglomerate will drop some big money on the company. Hurley and Chen are going to be stupid rich!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Yeah. You gotta use the filterset.
- SouthernDigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3tax write off? the max amount of benifit you could get from writing this off would be 50% of your initial investment (because 50% is the highest tax bracket). So, it would still be a hit even for the richest investors. You are thinking of above the line charity donations... those you can write off the full amount. :)
- tapo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's not logical. The entire point behind Youtube is to keep the videos locked into their site by way of flash video.
However, this is exactly the way Democracy Player + Videobomb works. - reaver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Inter, kids with their parent's money to spend are important. 1 in 3 kids at my high school have an ipod that costs 200-300 dollars.
- stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Poo-poo is the new pee-pee.
- stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Remember they have to pay off all their investors and their debt first. Potential buyers can sit back until they really have to sell.
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