Comments on: Content Will Follow The Money

By: Tales from the Bookcase Forest » Links for 06/27/2006

Tales from the Bookcase Forest » Links for 06/27/2006 — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 01:03:15 +0000

[...] Content Will Follow The Money [...]

By: nalts

nalts — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:27:17 +0000

Interesting- I was beginning to think I was the only person in the universe that was having trouble with YouTube’s sustainabilty in the “pay for content” era. I love YouTube, but if I were the founders I’d sell that puppy so fast. It will never be worth more than it is now because it’s popular and white hot. Revenue? Well, let’s do the math. They spend about $1 million on hosting/serving a month. Add the 30 plus salaries. Revenue? Chump change from Adsense. It’s probably non trivial because they get so much traffic. But it’s about the ridiculous ad model I’ve seen in a site with that much traffic. I get 2500 people a day to CubeBreak, and I’ve had more interesting offers for advertising than Adsense.

By: Paul Whitakaker

Paul Whitakaker — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:03:25 +0000

DUDE…

AskANinja actually resonded to your question. You are soooo l33t. I can’t believe I know you. Wow, my friend got to talk to a Ninja, that’s saweeeeet!

Seriously though, that’s pretty cool.

By: karl long

karl long — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:41:46 +0000

Thanks Kent,

Great point about the flash. I do like the fact that folks are getting paid for creating great content.

Man, I wish a real ninja had answered my question

Cheers,

Karl

By: Kent Nichols

Kent Nichols — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:09:55 +0000

Because YouTube.com has flash as it’s delivery method. More installed user base. and it’s real easy for our end users to just press play on our site.

We’re making our money from ads, t-shirts, licensing, and soon premium subscriptions (three day early access).

When we looked at Revver a while ago it was still a little immature. I’m sure with future projects we’ll look at it again to see if it will serve our needs better.

Cheers!