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Re: Google doesn’t know how to make money from YouTube

Lee Noble — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:19:17 -0000

I find it hard to believe that google bought such a huge asset without some idea of how to monetize it.

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Re: Google doesn’t know how to make money from YouTube

Germz — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:19:42 -0000

Google people disgust me. They payed millions for youtube and now they waste it.

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Re: Google doesn’t know how to make money from YouTube

Mark O'Neill — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:40:36 -0000

I think the premium version would be the best idea. They could offer a lot of extra features for the monthly fee to make it appealing such as faster uploading, better picture quality, online video editing tools and so on.A ticker? Like a moving one like the sort of thing CNN used to have at the bottom of their screen? I don't see people accepting that. I for one would hate something like that. It would distract people from the video they were watching and would probably, in the long term, lead to people using other video sites.

Re: Google doesn’t know how to make money from YouTube

J David — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:34:26 -0000

Or they could offer a premium version that is for heavy uploaders (a la Flickr) and then also disable ads for those users. People might be more willing to pay for that.Another option is one they already are implementing, where there is an ad on the right side, above the clip's info, and it is coordinated with an ad that sits on the bottom of the video screen (like a sports ticker). If you hover over the one in the video, the sidebar ad suddenly expands. I think it is annoying, but probably pretty effective. This would also work for outside of the site, because you can click on the embedded ticker on the bottom of the video.