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Buy Youtube Views — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:10:42 -0000

YouTube has continuously produced into a innovative force across thousands of sectors. While once considered as a simple movie giving service, YouTube has exploded into a genuine advertising and social networking foundation with a international reach of more than 2 million opinions per day.But now its losing.

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Engago Team — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:11:39 -0000

Thus the business model is give away for free something that is expensive and then get acquired.
Why not give away gold for free and get millions of addresses of people where you have send the gold to.
Then hope someone buys the company for the millions of addresses.

Re: YouTube now serves more than 1 billion money-losing views per day

Dune — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:16:27 -0000

Why is YouTube so popular? To state the obvious: it's free. However, at some point, the world needs to come to terms with the fact that you can't generate content for free. Certainly not quality content. Why is TV going down? To state the obvious: loss of viewers turned off by advertising and corporate control, fleeing to the internet. Yet nothing is free, however much you might be able to create the illusion of it being free.

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pookyamsterdam — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:13:21 -0000

http://venturebeat.com/2008... how times change in a little over a year - compare and contrast.

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Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:59:20 -0000

Have patience people, youtube has a great brand name and the smart guys at Google will finally find a way to make money, btw reserve ur sympathies for GOOG, they make a ton of money and just enjoy all the youtube videos. It has changed so many things for the better, we mst all be greatful to Google for not being aholes like Apple or microsoft and being driven only by profits.

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Why advertising unless PPD? — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:51:13 -0000

I don't think that the acquisition was a mistake for Google. What I do think is that YouTube can definitely be monetized way better. They stick to the same old advertising models. Where is the product innovation for which Google has been famous? They simply need to bring on board people who understand what advertisers will pay for this days, what they needs are and how to deliver. (yes, us, of course :-) or announce a tender for various solutions if internally the expertise is missing). The resources are obviously there, all is needed is a new roadmap for eyeballs monetization.
YouTube sits on a tremendous asset, but unfortunately it uses it as a hummer.
Thank you for sharing, Paul.

Re: YouTube now serves more than 1 billion money-losing views per day

Gordon Page — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:17:41 -0000

You said:

"Dailymotion hasn’t done any better, blowing through $34 million in funding on the cost of serving video"

I have to disagree, considering that dailymotion recently reached profitability!

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csun — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:03:27 -0000

Nice article. For a long time, I agreed that YouTube was a mistake for Google. I believed that YouTube may never break even.

But now, they are trying things like partnering with Time Warner to show high quality content. And that will bring high quality advertisers. And of course, they're still trying different forms of advertising in the videos or on the webpages.

I now think that YouTube will eventually break even and be profitable. Would Google have it any other way? Outsiders can never really know how much money YouTube is making or losing. So I think the estimated $1.5 million loss per day is probably an upper bound.

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Name — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:47:13 -0000

Is the Dailymotion figure supposed to be $34M? or is it $34 per vid or something like that...?