Imaging coming up with Youtube and having a great marketing plan like theirs. I was just looking at Alexa and their growth is amazing. You can see it here: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/youtube.com It's been online for around 2 years. On the Alexa graph for Youtube, click on the 'Reach' tab and then the 'Max' tab so that it shows the max amount of statistics for youtube and you can see it's huge and quick growth. It's become 2 in alexa and it's taken around 2 years to get there. By the look of the chart, the growth rate has not slowed down once yet and if it keeps growing at this pace then it's going to be the next Alexa No. 1 site, moving Yahoo to No 2. No wonder Google snapped it up due to it's potential. Shows that viral marketing does work afterall, lol.
Dont worry, as soon as the world gets totally hooked with broadband, adsl, wimax. Youtube wil be no 1 on alexa.
yes, that was a great investment by Google. I remember people saying that Google made a wrong decision, but if you look at the future of the internet people will be going online for their entertainment really soon.
Just 2 yrs. OMG. Internet as an entertainment media has a great future. Really gr8 decision by google.
Great decision? Youtube doesn't make google ANY money. They break even on it. The bandwidth cost is enormous. This isn't an opinion, it's a fact. Google breaks even on youtube, without generating profit.
Google has broken even so far on youtube but the beancounters at google aquisitions probably projected CPU power and bandwidth costs drastically reducing in the next 5-10 years. I bet those two, especially bandwidth are the main reasons why youtube does not make an insane profit. What I am saying is that in about 5 years youtube, if it still has a monopoly, will start to make insane amounts of money.
its actually time will be the measure for the profit. next biggest killing thing for the advertiser is internet video !! just love to see this thing happen.. google can see it first and now developing the next generation of ads on mobile