While it is possible the deal could fall through. I don't see any reason why google wouldn't buy youtube if they had the chance.
That's sad, youtube is a young site that depends on copyrighted material, it's only a matter of time before it's shut down or before it has to inforce harsh uploading rules that'll scare users away. I don't care what anyone says, no business can survive on copyrighted material.
Did you guys see how Mark Cuban recently said that only an idiot would buy YouTube? It would be a good acquisition, in my opinion. Yes, they are having trouble monetizing it, and the bandwidth is expensive. But if the traffic is there, I think they'll find a way to monetize it. Most new forms of media are hard to monetize at first. No one could monetize search well for the first few years. Edit - He does raise a somewhat valid point about the copyright issue. There are tons of entire TV shows on there. But even if they eliminated all copyrighted material, they'd still have a thriving business of people viewing homemade videos.
Copywrited material doesn't bother google - they simply quote fair usage policy or freeze the copywrite holder out by allowing them to request copywrited material is withdrawn (instead of google having to seek permission to use copywrited material). Also, when google are involved people tend to jump aboard thinking a new gravy train has rolled into the station ... even though it is simply google extending their brand.
Not sure, how true is this but If this goes through then yahoo and microsoft will have a problem. Videos are the next big thing on the net, if G gets youtube, it would create a sort of monopoly in this market for Google.
i like google very much but it looks like Microsoft. i think google wanto be monopoly. i think oneday we ll talk google buy D-P.
Holy crap it ain't paid news for the 67 people who are working at youtube (1.6 BILLION). On Saturday morning the Audi TT salemen will be lined up in the parking lot of the restaurant below their office. I've sure the venture guys will be hauling on this one but with 67 employees they all likely have some sort of deal. Company launched in Feb. 2005 according to the WSJ article. Who says the internet millionaires are gone.
You dont need a profitable company to make money with your business as Youtube and myspace have shown.
youtube owners have achieved what they thought of.they made big return's only in 1 year span.i think they were not going to continue this business anyways with millions going to hosting company per month. Btw, now how will google host youtube if it buys..will it create a new hosting company???lol. I think this deal will affect rackspace the host's of youtube.