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- DeviantDragon, on 11/19/2008, -1/+33Your search yielded the following sponsored videos:
Rick's Kaiser Rolls Commercial
Rock and Roll History
Rock'n'Rolla
Rickshaw Rolls Down a Hill
Ricola Commericial
Rollerblading Professionals - polalion, on 11/20/2008, -0/+24Advertisers are never gonna give you up.
- anagoge, on 11/20/2008, -0/+18Hulu isn't an international service. It can only be accessed within the US, which means that the rest of the world will still turn to other places.
- loganava, on 11/19/2008, -2/+17so now every term I search in youtube will yield spam.
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+12This is some good turn-around after all the recent Viacom *****.
- whataboutdave, on 11/18/2008, -1/+12heels?
- syme6, on 11/19/2008, -0/+10heal plz
- Dreamstate, on 11/20/2008, -5/+15Well, I guess YouTube had a good run, it's about time they became a second-rate video sharing-site.
Capitalism strikes again! - Variz, on 11/20/2008, -0/+9How about they up the resolution of their hosted videos first.
- JackpotCity, on 11/19/2008, -0/+8Well they have to monetize and improve their revenues somehow.
- GeorgeStone2, on 11/20/2008, -0/+6Seems to me that it would be a good time to start a youtube rival.
- enclaved, on 11/20/2008, -2/+7Remember never make a spelling mistake on digg.
- phogasmic, on 11/20/2008, -0/+4i don't get anti commercialization guys. I mean... do you have any idea what it must cost to run that kind of site? If they don't make money off of it it will be gone. Furthermore, if sites like this don't try to make money then what kind of jobs are us web people going to get?
- AdeleMor, on 11/18/2008, -0/+4blah, it's the inexorable commercialization of the medium. who knows when the openness we took for granted is renewed in some other context.
- nkassi, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3not often
- KipEvil, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3Casting Complete Heal on syme6.
- nikki2300dk, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3Sometimes people are motivated by things other than money.
- ChayesFSS, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3I just wait for the funny ones to be posted somewhere else...
- Murdats, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3yeah but hulu is only a secondary healer.
- brownsound00, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3Sentence structure > validity of points
- Mjeacoma, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Well, if keywords can still be added to videos (which I assume they would) than some 3rd party could index separately and take advantage of this.....dumb on YouTube's end to integrate a pay to play mentality.
Also, where is the 'you' of YouTube if it is only paid advertisers? Sounds like another, New Coke - megamod, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2hmm...what were you searching for?
- Jambi, on 11/20/2008, -1/+3Yes they do. But doing this in such a way as to kill off the content that was bringing people to their site in the first place is really just shooting themselves in the foot.
- crazyraven, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Sponsored ads that appear on search results pages are a great idea!
Just like the ads that appear on Google results pages - they're pretty unobtrusive, and occasionally show links to things I want.
In addition, this gives anyone with a message (including me) a way to promote it for a reasonable price.
I think it's a win/win
For anyone who wants to complain about this new revenue model, we'd all be interested in your great ideas for making the site profit. - kristoaster, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2"Remind me to NEVER make a spelling mistake on Digg..."
would have been a more appropriate wording for that sentence. - bj1989, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Actually there's a strong similarity between the words Sponsored Videos and Sponsored Links(Google)
This has led me to believe that these sponsored videos will be similar to sponsored links, by which I mean: non intrusive or no spam. - anbudom, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2Still a long way to go to recoup the $1.6 Billion, let alone make a profit. Hope it goes well.
- honeybrass, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2they need healing, is there a doctor in the house?
- catbeller, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Or:
We, through our representatives, open the "white space" portion of the television spectrum to anyone who wants to operate a access point, rather than auction it off to yet another telecom.
Then we use open-source software to operate open-sourced wireless access points, and grow the mother of all wireless grid networks. Commercial providers could simultaneously grow out their 100-a-month plans. See who wins.
If commercial providers don't develop ever-cheaper switches, we spend public money to develop them. Drive the cost of wireless broadband down as close to zero as possible, and squeeze out the hundreds of billions of profit we presently will eventually surrender up to near-monopolies.
ISP-less internet.
As to those who complain that the free market deserves to drive all this, I submit that the internet was developed with public funds for public use, and that commercial interests and speculators have hijacked the technology and the pipes without our consent.
No one "deserves" to make a profit out of thin air. And, let me bring up the Broken Window Fallacy -- running a faux-expensive public network does not expand the economy - if the windows wasn't "broken", as it were, we would spend our money on other things, like paying down our debts or not running debts up so high to begin with. All cost of living reductions to the public are gains, not losses, to the true economy, which is about people on the whole, not individual businessmen. The money saved would be diverted from Comcast and AT&T, which simply be less profitable - so who cares - and be spent on something important, rather than stockholder value.
The internet needs to be restored to what it originally was intended to be: a communications protocol that is free for all to use. It is not a telephone or cable company. It is not a government toy. It is not a property of the Carlysle group. It should be free as in speech, free to grow, not a profit center, and not a game for corporatists to control. - Murdats, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2and if you do, at least make it one everyone can make fun of.
- crazyraven, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2How do sponsored ads that appear in search results kill off the content?
Do sponsored ads on Google kill the results pages? - motters, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Ads around the periphery of the video would be fine, but ads actually in the video or inserted before the video would be extremely annoying.
- mahler, on 11/20/2008, -1/+2Capitalism made sure that people were motivated to create better alternatives. If YouTube would be state sponsored, to prevent them from becoming a "second-rate video", the state would also discourage the creation of many alternatives.
- Murdats, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1lets see.
commercialised youtube or no youtube, hmmm - maxz2508, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1I lol'd.
- Finalreminder, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Utube's gone crap.
Liveleak is much better. - black27696, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Hulu is an entirely different market. They have full length television and movies available, and they get new ones (fairly) quickly. Apples and oranges. For watching full length shows, Hulu has already won.
- black27696, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Well, if Google decides to do the ads the way they do them (remember, Google owns YouTube) then they will probably be non obtrusive and off to the side, while displaying standard site crawler web results as well. If they do the ads inside the videos themselves, megavideo will crush them.
- Jambi, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Never.
- profJohn, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1How about a paid premium options for users to ditch embedded ads, permit larger and longer videos, and HD format? (Or are they just leaving that business model for Vimeo and the like to eat their cake?)
- brownsound00, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Need pots? I've got some greater healings
- black27696, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1the cake is a lie.
- StrangeFamous, on 11/20/2008, -1/+2Yeah, and they're never gonna- *shoots self in face*
- shamanking911, on 11/28/2008, -0/+1dugg for the a different POV
- Vallsurf, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1heal urself.
f"kin pallys - phogasmic, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Good idea, how are you going to pay for the bandwidth??
- atma1008, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1I totally agree with you. Consumers already get to watch everything for free...how is that going to continue if the site doesn't find a way to make money without charging the consumer?
- Atomic1fire, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1its a content distributor that also serves as a video site,
since they also provide content to other video sites. - Atomic1fire, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1or
we make a open source youtube competitor using stuff like cortado and ogg theora, but that's already been done on http://en.theorasea.org/
and cortado is not that great of a video player just yet...
anyway, Ill still be using youtube until something better comes along. -
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