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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
People here thought they were diabolically clever and nothing would go wrong. Then Tubes hit them. 
Data on millions of kids watching other kids on skate boards is not worth 600 million?
Whoops, I can't spell. LOL
There are lots of multi millionaires and billionaires who made it because they got in early.
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For the record I doubt if feeding out thousands of videos to millions of people for free like they have on Youtube is such a great idea. Traffic costs money until it buys something. Just having a surfer on your site is not the solution. Getting him to buy something is.
But as we know a lot feel traffic is king and when you have as much money as Google you can write off $600,000,000 a year to prove traffic is king. 
Will it change? Would love someone to point out how. Clearly all the clever guys at Google don't know how to. But then maybe one of my detractors has the answer. |
paul what you are completely clueless about is that youtube get paid to feed people free videos. The people who give away the free videos pay for such a right
http://www.google.com/support/youtub...60&ctx=sibling
you know that flash scroller that recommend other videos "like this one"
guess what people pay for those relevance listing.
Down the side where you see similar videos
People pay for those listing.
I would suspect that 80% of youtube revenue comes from this form of advertising.
As more and more stuff user generated stuff get put on youtube it becomes harder and harder to get your stuff found. Which increase demand for this service which increase revenue.