How YouTube could make $1.2B a Year • Hacker News Board

Re: How YouTube could make $1.2B a Year

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Post by Tippingpoint » Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 11:06 AM UTC

fizx wrote: post #3

Title typo

Oh no. I can fix that. What's the title typo?

Re: How YouTube could make $1.2B a Year

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Post by Tippingpoint » Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 11:12 AM UTC

qeorge wrote: post #15

The author is missing some key knowledge about the industry. Selling analytics data could be a good fit for Twitter, but not for YouTube. Here's why: 1) YouTube's value is their user generated content. If the content goes, the site's value does too. 2) The highest-margin videos for YouTube are the most popular ones. These are often professionally produced and have distribution companies behind them. With UGC, the sho…

Thanks for your insight. Here's the deal though -> 1) Agreed! 2) Agreed! 3) Don't Agree. If there's value to the data there's a way to share it. Saying that it's too much data is just an easy way to say no. 4) You're right. Google Ads support YouTube. This won't last forever. Advertising online is falling apart - slowly - but it's getting cheaper and cheaper and less and less effective. So, looking at additional revenue streams seems like a good idea to me.

Re: How YouTube could make $1.2B a Year

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Post by Tippingpoint » Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 11:13 AM UTC

naveensundar wrote: post #10

Did anybody else read this as "How You could make $120B a Year". (I should probably check my spam folder less frequently.)

That's really funny!