Recent Blog Posts
-
A Big Fat Geek Survey
May 25 20123:56 pm EDT -
Phasing Out Instagram
May 25 20122:27 pm EDT -
UberConference Is Victorious!
May 24 20121:49 pm EDT -
Ark Floats, Olive Branch Unseen
May 21 20126:30 pm EDT -
Teach the Internet to Forget
May 21 20124:39 pm EDT -
Microsoft Patent Begs the Question:
Who Needs Developers?
May 17 20123:30 pm EDT -
Mozilla's Monitor-Me-Not
May 17 201211:38 am EDT -
Google's Brain Gets Humanized
May 16 20125:30 pm EDT -
Pandora Demographics Aim Wedding Proposal
May 16 201212:19 pm EDT -
New York Techies Get Mappy Way to Job Hunt
May 15 20122:50 pm EDT
Links
- Engadget
- Pandora
- GigaOM
- USA TODAY Tech
- Somewhat Frank's tech conference list
- BuzzTracker Tech
- The Long Tail
- Tom Foremski
- Roger McGuinn's Folk Den
- John Battelle's SearchBlog
- Mark Cuban's blog
- SciTech Daily
- Romenesko
- Kevin Maney's site
- Steven Johnson
- Marc Andreessen
- TechCrunch
- Fred Wilson
- paidContent
- Spiedies, mmmm
- TechFlash
YouTube: Can Something That Big Be a Rotten Business?
Kevin Maney natters: There is a growing, burbling conversation in tech that Google just can't find a way to make money on YouTube, despite YouTube's 130 million visitors a month. CEO Eric Schmidt has all but admitted as much in interviews.
On his blog, Mark Cuban rips YouTube and compares it to Hulu, which in its short life has found a way to make money on Web video. Actually, Mark's rant seems drenched in irony. Cuban is a billionaire sports owner because he sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999 -- an investment that never paid off for Yahoo. YouTube may be Google's Broadcast.com.
In another rant, CNET says Google might just want to kill YouTube outright. It costs too much to operate and has become a copyright lawsuit magnet. If there's no way to monetize the site, it will suck money out of Google for years.
Still, I will be amazed if Google can't figure out any way to make money off YouTube. So many smart people with so much innovative mojo, not to mention all the money in the world to spend on a solution. There's gotta be something someone will come up with. You think?
Photo credit: Tony Avelar/AP Photo
Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.
Comments
If you are commenting using a Facebook account, your profile information may be displayed with your comment depending on your privacy settings. By leaving the 'Post to Facebook' box selected, your comment will be published to your Facebook profile in addition to the space below.
