When YouTube announced this summer that they had surpassed the 100 million video streams per day mark, the media picked it up and ran with it while skeptics sat back in disbelief – a disbelief that can still be found in the blogosphere. comScore recently released a report confirming YouTube’s numbers.
Notes on the Google-YouTube Deal
Most of the discussion about Google’s acquisition of Youtube.com has focused on two issues: first, whether Google overspent or underspent on the popular video-sharing site, and whether the acquisition was a wise one, given possible copyright liabilities Google may now be exposing itself to, given the free-wheeling and seldom policed nature of Youtube’s user-generated videos.
MySpace vs. YouTube Google Wins?
MySpace has implemented various changes over the weekend to increase exposure of video sharing and hosting features to its users. The changes are designed to simplify the process of adding video content to MySpace profiles.
Google Getting Bad Press On YouTube
The acquisition of YouTube by Google has prompted more than a few negative articles. Using Google News I linked to a few of them below. Most of the articles tend to focus on Google taking the risk of billions in exposure to legal damages from major media companies. If this happens in any serious way […]
Google, YouTube Face Potential Opposition
Dick Parsons, Time Warner CEO & Chairman, revealed in a British newspaper that the company will continue to pursue copyright infringement complaints against YouTube. This is the first potential pitfall for Google, who acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion on Monday.
MySpace to Block YouTube?
Google executives Eric Schmidt and Tim Armstrong are set to meet this week with News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch on the heels of the $1.65 billion sale of YouTube to the search engine giant.
Google Buys YouTube For Entertainment
Watch out Yahoo and I mean ” Watch, View, Entertain, Brand”. Google not only bought 100 Million video views a day but they just bought something they were lacking, entertainment value and what comes along with that … youth. Youth is a great demographic, money, money, money.
Cuban: Google Still Crazy For YouTube Buy
Mark Cuban repeated his belief that an eager horde of attorneys will take a beachhead in Mountain View and bombard the Googleplex with subpoenas until they find a copyright breach they can exploit with shareholder lawsuits for millions.
Google And YouTube, The Morning After
With a lot of attention paid to the big number, $1.65 billion, there are some other numbers that illustrate Google’s interest in YouTube much better than the price tag. Google CEO Eric Schmidt probably isn’t having second thoughts about the acquisition of YouTube.
Wasting More Time with YouTube
As everyone knew, YouTube was way, way ahead in users and uploaded content. I did some quick checking, on queries like “athens” and “mcdonalds” and found that there were typically between 4X and 12X as many videos uploaded to YouTube as to Google Video. This stuff isn’t going away.