Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:39 am
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deckardcanineI'm worried about YouTube. IMDb reports that it's losing millions of dollars a day. And unlike Amazon in its early days, YouTube suffers with an increase in popularity.
Maybe they just need to sell more advertising space. On a typical video page, there is none. Yes, people like to gripe about even relatively innocuous banner ads, but the only feasible alternative I know is to stop making the service free to viewers.
Okay, they could ask for PayPal contributions, but just how well would that work? Seems to me that people are less likely to be charitable when it's (a) vastly popular worldwide and (b) not an important cause like combating diabetes.
No matter what happens, the current format is simply too good to last.
Maybe they just need to sell more advertising space. On a typical video page, there is none. Yes, people like to gripe about even relatively innocuous banner ads, but the only feasible alternative I know is to stop making the service free to viewers.
Okay, they could ask for PayPal contributions, but just how well would that work? Seems to me that people are less likely to be charitable when it's (a) vastly popular worldwide and (b) not an important cause like combating diabetes.
No matter what happens, the current format is simply too good to last.