of interest... this is a good podcast with Dina_Kaplan: http://www.ontherecordpodcast.com/pr/otro/electronic/Blip.TV_Co-Founder_Dina_Kaplan_on_the_Explosive_Growth_of_Online_Video.mp3
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Michael Sullivan <sullele...@gmail.com>wrote: > What do you think would have happened to youtube if it wasnt aquired by a > mega-company? > Sure, it would have raised multiple rounds of investment to stay alive and > figure out how to monetize. > They would have had to launch their own ad platform, probably similar as > google's auction based AdWords. > And hope for the best. And struggle. > > It's interesting though. > > And the evolution is clearly focused around the so-called premium > content... Where Hulu has established itself and where Youtube is moving > towards as fast as they can. That's where companies want to display their > ads. With the exception of the phenomena of culturally viral media. > > Yet, in contrast, Blip.tv is surviving and they focus on independent > shows. Mostly because of new investments as they continue to work their > business models. But they are the torso (and longtail). They are banking > on success of the thousands of shows that they host and support. They > support them because that supports themselves (ads and syndication deals). > Sort of like a Talent Agent. > Great to have Blip.tv fighting the good fight. Seeing how so many > companies are now getting out of the online video business or are struggling > to survive without more blind investments... we'll see if Blip continues to > succeed. And if a shows success will influence it to move off of blip.tvand > self-serve instead... The business of success. > > @sull > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Jay dedman <jay.ded...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> No surprise here really. This research concludes that it's worth it >> for Google to pay the enormous Youtube cost's of serving free video >> since it brings so much traffic to the web. It's lile grocery stores >> losing money on eggs to get you into the store. It's a loss leader. >> >> http://www.telco2.net/blog/2009/06/google_the_internet_behemoth_a.html >> >> Jay >> >> -- >> http://ryanishungry.com >> http://jaydedman.com >> http://twitter.com/jaydedman >> 917 371 6790 >> >> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
