Hi everyone: > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > From: rup...@fatgirlinohio.org > Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:48:57 -0700 > Subject: [videoblogging] YouTube will lose half a billion dollars this year > > This is from the Seattle Times last week. Credit Suisse analyst says > YouTube will cost Google $470m. Bandwidth costs them $360m, content > rights cost them $252m, but sales from advertising are only $240m (um, > "only"). > > Oops. > > If YouTube and Google can't make it work, how the hell is anybody else > supposed to? > > Google is actually hurting the whole online video market by providing > video as a free 'loss leader'? While they can afford to prop up > YouTube's failed business model by subsidizing their massive losses to > the tune of half a billion a year, how can anybody else innovate > sensible revenue models for online video? The "Free" internet is a > massive illusion.
You're forgetting one VERY important thing. Not all of us are on the Internet to make $$$. That too is an illusion. It's just like hoping to find that "Mr. (Or Ms.) Right" in your life. IT IS JUST NOT THAT SIMPLE. Just my $.02 worth.... Cheers :) Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS & PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturns.webs.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.webs.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/theleftwingconservative/ _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail®: Get e-mail storage that grows with you. http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Storage1_042009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
