YouTube deep in dog doo - Game|Gravity

3tt0 · 04-14-2009, 07:21 AM

Too many users not enough cash

YouTube is about to go down the gurgler according to Benjamin Wayne the CEO of Fliqz.

Writing in his purple prose stacked blog, Wayne said that YouTube, was an "incandescent tower of video Babel; monument to the sloughed-off detritus of our exponentially-exploding digital culture". Wayne described it as a "Technicolor cataract of skateboarding dogs, lip-synching college students, political punditry, and porn".

However he claims that it has reached the zenith of its meteoric rise; and Icarus-like, wings melting; is spiraling back to earth. Murdering the metaphor he added that YouTube was soaring towards the future like a pigeon towards a plate glass window. We guess he didn't realise that pigeons can't soar upwards towards a plate glass window unless it was being towed behind a 747.

Wayne pointed out that YouTube is on track to lose roughly $470 million in 2009 something its overlord Google is not going to be happy about. He said that the economics are hard to overcome and there is no way that YouTube will make enough cash to be sustainable in the long term. The outfit would have to make $9.48 for every video impression shown something which they cannot do.

Wayne added that YouTube's traffic will grow and cost a fortune to run. He thinks that eventually the outfit will have to come up with a subscription.

[Source: Fudzilla.com]

ghost · 04-15-2009, 10:52 PM

Somehow I dont think that being placed in the top 5 sites in existance is going to be something Google will let go. Sure it's at great financial cost, but simply as a marketing tool for Google itself Youtube has to have some concrete value. I wonder how much it costs to adverftsie on every singe page/video/comment every put on youtube. Google gets that coverage free, and Im pretty sure that has to amount to something.

04-14-2009, 07:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
3tt0 Electrostatic charge Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Poland Posts: 93	YouTube deep in dog doo Too many users not enough cash YouTube is about to go down the gurgler according to Benjamin Wayne the CEO of Fliqz. Writing in his purple prose stacked blog, Wayne said that YouTube, was an "incandescent tower of video Babel; monument to the sloughed-off detritus of our exponentially-exploding digital culture". Wayne described it as a "Technicolor cataract of skateboarding dogs, lip-synching college students, political punditry, and porn". However he claims that it has reached the zenith of its meteoric rise; and Icarus-like, wings melting; is spiraling back to earth. Murdering the metaphor he added that YouTube was soaring towards the future like a pigeon towards a plate glass window. We guess he didn't realise that pigeons can't soar upwards towards a plate glass window unless it was being towed behind a 747. Wayne pointed out that YouTube is on track to lose roughly $470 million in 2009 something its overlord Google is not going to be happy about. He said that the economics are hard to overcome and there is no way that YouTube will make enough cash to be sustainable in the long term. The outfit would have to make $9.48 for every video impression shown something which they cannot do. Wayne added that YouTube's traffic will grow and cost a fortune to run. He thinks that eventually the outfit will have to come up with a subscription. [Source: Fudzilla.com]

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04-15-2009, 10:52 PM	#2 (permalink)
ghost revenant Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 454	Somehow I dont think that being placed in the top 5 sites in existance is going to be something Google will let go. Sure it's at great financial cost, but simply as a marketing tool for Google itself Youtube has to have some concrete value. I wonder how much it costs to adverftsie on every singe page/video/comment every put on youtube. Google gets that coverage free, and Im pretty sure that has to amount to something.