techcrunch.com — “A senior exec at a well known media company that has been in acquisition talks with YouTube”, says that YouTube is absolutely willing to sell, but that the number must be “at least $1.5 billion.” Article contains a detailed overview of YouTube traffic and copyright issues they face.
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alpha736Sep 21, 2006
I think YouTube is definitely being a bit greedy. Compare this 1.5 Billion to the 5.4 Billion ATi is being bought for. ATi is a much larger "Product" than YouTube. I don't think YouTube is worth more than a quarter of ATi (ATi = 5.4B | 1/4 of ATi = 1.35B), Youtube is worth something way less than that...
deutSep 21, 2006
I'm sorry but you guys are absolutely nuts!$1.5 bill ??? - I think you lot have been watching too much Goldmember.As soon as anyone starts to do anything really commercial with this site, LIKE MAKE SOME REAL MONEY FROM IT, the *AA's will come down on it like a ton of bricks.
Closed AccountSep 21, 2006
Yahoo thought that Broadcast.com was worth about $5 billion dollars at one point too. Shortly after Mark Cuban cashed out his $1.8 billion share of that, it was worth about $50 million.The bubble WILL burst again. Maybe even more spectacularly. These sites are once again relying on website advertising and more and more people are learning about ad blockers. Not to mention the click fraud. It will not be long before advertisers start to push Google and the others into offering them MUCH better deals because of this and then Google will have to offer much less money to the websites.
Closed AccountSep 21, 2006
And I'll still sell my coffee mug on my desk, but the price has to be at least 10 Billion dollars.
Closed AccountSep 21, 2006
Yeah, because no large corporation or news media is far left leaning.Right.
shotgunefxSep 21, 2006
Broadcast.com was the first thing that comes to my mind too. Though, Y! had no idea of what do actually do with it either.
ivachenSep 21, 2006
i don't really see why youtube can't make money over time. what they need is a huge telco that runs many backbones behind them to cut the bandwidth costs down, and then they are basically a network channel that broadcast whatever people like to see over the internet. There's already a lot of ads on youtube im sure they make something, and the bandwidth cost will only go down overtime. As for the legality, that's a risk that any business will need to take, because it's user content they have a pretty strong case, at least for now.