Fiddy tube myths

The "fact" that google makes no money from youtube is probably wrong at all.

I have already posted a couple of posts that explain how tube traffic volume fits in developing hosting business (use the search function).

In short, google gets a HUGE price drop on their datacenter and bandwidth costs. The price drop for all the other projects the company has, is enough to make it for the youtube site "loses".

I doubt that youtube is making it for money loss if you take into account google as a whole. The project itself may be a money sink, but having lots of other projects benefit from its resources makes the entire difference and probably ends being profitable.

You can read in another thread of mines about how my company saved lots of money by running a tube site that delivers porn but it's resources are used for completely different stuff meanwhile.

Synergy... it's all about it :)

that and youtube cross promotes videos for pay. Many of the recommended videoes pay a fee per viewing for the keywords that they tag their video.

none of which is counted when an outside firm is looking at the ad views.

I hear that. No one knows for certain that Youtube doesn't make money. It's always some analyst saying they don't think Youtube makes money.

People have always shared porn, made remixes and reencoded videos. The usenet was always full of this. Due to the nerdy character and the special knowledge that you usually need to have to access the usenet, it did not catch on in such a large scale.

The tube sites are only a medium for the surfers that was missing. And they are going nowhere, either.

I have started to experiment with some of the tubes. All of the ones I tried monitor all of their uploads. Why do they do that? Some do it to protect themselves from child pornography. Others will not approve any user uploads and only upload their own videos. Unfortunately, the transparency in this system is zero, both for webmasters and surfers. I thought for example that tube8 is filled with stolen content. But they did not approve a single one of my uploads, which means they are either uploading their own DVD rips or use licensed content. And I simply don't have a way to know.

What people are missing is that a market instrument should be suitable for the audience that visits the site. As I explained above, surfers expect from tube sites to find uploaded video scenes. If you upload 30 second clips to your tube, you do not offer the surfer what they expect.

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