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AdSense isn't just for ads anymore; it's also a place to get video content for your site -- and earn extra revenue at the same time. We're excited about the launch of video units -- a new way to enrich your site with quality, relevant video content in an
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The YouTube-UK music deal will focus on high-traffic videos. Andrew Shaw, of the MCPS-PRS Alliance, told the Financial Times that his organization will screen the top 5 to 10 percent of clips. “The long-tail is not worth calculating,” he said. Another
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Consider this scenario: Two videos, one by Producer A and one by Producer B, generate 3 million views each. Producer A receives a handsome check, while Producer B gets nothing, with no explanation as to why. If you're Producer B, are you pissed or what?
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YouTube, one of the most successful exits of the Web 2.0 era, needs little introduction. YouTube’s single biggest contribution is that it brought into the mainstream the concept of sharing videos online. YouTube shot into limelight when Google acquired
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The company will launch a program that puts the creators of some of the more popular YouTube channels — including Lonelygirl15, LisaNova, HappySlip, renetto, Smosh, and valsartdiary — on the same playing field as large media partners like CBS.
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An analyst report last week from Bear Stearns & Co. showed that YouTube had revenue of $15 million in 2006, which means Google paid more than 100 times the video site's annual intake. But no one's ready to panic.
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Google needs television network content to feed its YouTubers the clip-culture snacks they want, more than television networks need YouTube for “free” promos. Google’s days of “ignoring conventional wisdom in designing its business” are numbe
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Chad Hurley received 694,087 Google shares and another 41,232 shares in a trust. Based on Google’ market price of $470.01, that values Hurley’s stake at $345.6 million. -- Co-founder Steve Chen received 625,366 Google shares and another 68,721 in a t
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The shares of our Class A common stock that may be offered by each selling stockholder using this prospectus represent shares of our Class A common stock that we issued to such selling stockholder in connection with our acquisition of YouTube, Inc. We w
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Widgets have been primarily a marketing tool, used to drive traffic to a destination site, with Youtube being the most obviously successful at doing this. Once there, monetizing traffic on your own site is uncontroversial. But few others have been able to
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Do people care how the data is getting from the host to them? No. That's exactly why peer to peer will definitely win over a centralized, YouTube approach. By cutting down on bandwidth costs (they're mostly from the users), the Venice Project can have muc
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Google needs no help with penetration of Ad Sense, though it needs help with display / banner ads. When we ran the numbers on “How Much Can Google Generate on YouTube with Ad Sense,” the numbers were low.
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Yoqoo.com, a leading online video sharing and distribution platform in China, today announced it has completed a US$12 million round of private equity funding from Sutter Hill Ventures, Farallon Capital and Chengwei Ventures.
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Don't sue us over copyrights. Take this (substantial) payment, and trust us to figure out how we'll all make serious money once we get advertising and revenue sharing worked out. no publicly traded media company is in a position to dismiss, $100 million.
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six-figure spending levels buy even more features, including mashups, personalized photos, and RSS and podcast feeds. Similarly, YouTube is looking to do media deals at a certain five-figure threshold, and it sets six-figure thresholds to let marketers ow
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So while the marquee deals are few and far between, paying amateurs is a pretty easy way to attract attention, creators… and perhaps even the next big thing. Revver15 has gained fame along with talents such as lonelygirl15, Ask a Ninja, and Ze Frank for
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That's the take at least from conversations with some of YouTube's more popular posters who feel increasingly disenfranchised with each new major corporate alliance the site enters into - with some of them even considering going so far as to post videos e
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12.5 percent of the equity issued and issuable is subject to escrow for one year to secure certain indemnification obligations. Based on the $1.5 billion amount, that should be about $187.5 million.
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Google is frantically making payouts of “tens of millions of dollars” to the content companies. One unnamed film and TV company is receiving $100 million to license its content over a two-year period, according to the report.
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YouTube isn't the alternative to rampant piracy; it's the enabler of it. If Google isn't successful in the current negotiations, it would be a huge and expensive embarrassment for the company - and, one assumes, could scuttle the YouTube deal entirely.
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Google is “engaged in a frantic round of negotiations” with traditional media companies, even offering tens of millions of dollars in upfront payments to ward off any potential copyright lawsuits. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has met with top execs from CB
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3 of the major record labels sign some sort of deal with Gootube that rewards them with 40k shares of stock each, worth more than 15mm dollars that from appearances will allow Gootube to offer music videos for free from the Gootube site.
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The curious thing about YouTube is that the people who ought to be paid (individual content creators) aren't actually campaigning for it, while corporate providers are threatening legal action over clips pirated on YouTube - even though normally they are
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The answer to this question - the marginal benefit of paying peers - isn't straightforward.peers play vastly different roles in all these value chains. Understanding the new value chain, how value is created - and who requires the ability to capture a sha
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it seems that YouTube aren’t going after these sites at the moment. And if they did, you’ve got to wonder where the line will be drawn: if a commercial blog posts a YouTube video, are they also breaking the ToS?
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The main point of potential conflict is the millions of YouTube videos that are embedded on the profiles of MySpace users. The revenue-sharing question for MySpace and YouTube is really tough, but it has to be resolved
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I’m not against commercialization, but I have noticed YouTube becoming much more noisy over recent weeks. What’s changed is that the video site has become a major attractor of eyeballs, and eyeballs equal attention, fame and money.
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Three of the four major music companies each quietly negotiated to take small stakes in YouTube as part of video- and music-licensing deals they struck shortly before the sale, people involved in the talks said yesterday.
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Sequoia Capital Their 30% investment in YouTube for $11.5M has turned into $500M in less than two years – a 43x multiple, or more if the GOOG stock gets a pop over the next 30 day
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None of them (YouTube) need to sell and I think they are all much more eager to figure all of this out the way Google did with search five years ago and reap the much bigger rewards that will come from doing that.
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Joe Bereta and Luke Barats (aka BaratsAndBereta) have signed a comedy deal with NBC. The six-figure contract will enable the pair to develop low-cost sitcoms and sketches.
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In fact, it seems that this may be Revver’s new role: making money for content creators once they’ve achieved success over on YouTube.
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Grouper’s recent sale to Sony for $65 million suggests a YouTube valuation of around $2 billion when you look at relative traffic. YouTube may get their $1.5 billion in the near future. But first they’ll have to find a buyer with a strong stomach for
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I think the real winners long-term will be platforms that enable a new generation of content producers to break free from the old media content hierarchy and make money from their creativity. As Umair reminds us, it’s all about enabling creativity.
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Traffic Kosten: Current estimates range from $900,000 to $1.5 million per month. YouTube muss mehr aus den User Generated Content machen und versuchen die Videos besser zu Filtern und einzuteilen um Platz für Werbung zu schaffen.
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If the owners at YouTube followed the traditional script, they would adopt the pre-roll model, float an IPO, cash out and then move on to the next opportunity a whole lot richer.
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"This gets them money in the short term," Allen Weiner, an analyst with Gartner Inc said. "It doesn't solve the bigger issue, which is monetizing consumer-created content. They're not doing that. And they're in the same boat as everybody else.
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YouTube is a time bomb and a gold mine waiting to happen. The question is which one will be bigger. Grouper hatte 1% Marktanteil, deshalb könnte YouTube $1Mrd wert sein. Aber es ist absolut nicht klar ob sich das GEschäft lohnt.
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YouTube macht Geld mit Werbung vor der Werbung und verwischt die Grenze zwischen Amateuren und Profis. Es löst aber nicht die großen dinge wie die Werbung vor den User Generated Videos. Außerdem wollen sie ein Video adsense aufziehen.
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YouTube soll eine Mrd Dollar wert sein. Nur wirds wohl keiner kaufen. Denn wenn es ein Network kauft dann kaufen sie sicher gleich jede Menge Prozesse mit ein. Und die Internet Giganten sind nicht sonderlich interessiert.
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YouTube behauptete der Weg in die Profitabilität ist in Sichtweise und es wird keine Pro- oder Postroll Ads geben. Marketing Deals ja. 19.6 Mio Besucher im Juni. Es wird auch mit Displayadvertising experimentiert. Nicht alles ist top-
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Gedanken wie YouTube geldverdienen könnte. Nach dem Revver Modell, populäre Inhalte als Premium verkaufen. User Tests machen mit verschiedenen Werbeformen, Inhouse Werbeverkäufe, kein Adsense oder sofort verkaufen.
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Matrix mit den momentan bekannten Gewinnbeteiligungsseiten für Onlinevideos. Dabei kommt raus, dass es noch kein wirklich funktionierendes Modell gibt entweder keine Beteiligung oder kein Traffic oder beides.
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YouTube kann seine User nicht mehr zufriedenstellen, wenn sie werbung einführen (weil es werbefrei war) und nicht wenn sie subsciptions einführen. Contentproblem außerdem Piraterie kein Businessmodell.
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Viele Modelle streiten darum Erfolg zu haben. Werbung am Ende (Revver), Seitenwerbung (Eeoff), Lulu.tv (Pro Accounts, die in abhängigkeit Geld zurück bekommen). Und Natürlich eine Menge Promotiondeals.
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Interessant YouTube hat ebenso wie Napster eine Fanbasis, diese ist jedoch gewohnt nichts zu bezahlen es wird also schwierig Geld zu verlangen und bei der Werbung ist das größte Problem das Umfeld.
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Es gibt nun 173 YouTube Clones und allein im April wurden 3 neue mit $30 MIo an Venture Capital vollgepumpt. Das geht ganz sicher nicht gut und fürher oder Später wird es opfer geben. Die Meisten unterschätzen die Kosten (Traffic)
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Laut Hitwise haben die Top10 der Videoseiten in den letzten 3 Monaten 164% Mehr traffic erhalten. 13 Mio Visits/Täglich für YouTube. #2 Myspace mit 24% Anteil. IDC sagt voraus dass die Seiten 2010 $1.7 Mrd Umsetzen werden $230 Mio 2005.
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Erklärung warum Revver nicht so gut funktioniert wie YouTube. Im Prinzip wollen die leute eher die Befriedigung der Berühmtheit und des Buzz sowie schnelles Publizieren. Sie nehmen an dass die Werbeinnahmen nur marginal sind und setzten auf andere Fakto
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Bei 200 Terabyte und 40 Mio Videos/ Tag bezahlt YouTube geschätze $1Mio pro Monat für Traffic an Limelight. 1 Min Video kostet zw. 1/10 und 1 Penny, je nach Rabatt. Im Moment verdienen die Provider am meisten mit den Internetvideos ($500Mio vs $200Mio).
