Comments on: What MTV says about Google-YouTube marriage

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[herkamur]

here come the ads

First let me start by saying that the day Google inserts pre-roll ads before my video content is the day I pull my content and post it elsewhere. I can probably live with ads displayed UNOBSTRUCTIVELY on the page. One of the features of YouTube that I currently make use of is the ability to embed my videos in another site or page. Unfortunately I fear that Google will pull that feature since they cannot place ads that way without a pre or post-roll video.

I'm so sick of advertising. People are inundated with it every day. We cannot escape the advertising littered all over our environment. One one hand I realize that services need to be funded. Users have to realize that they have two options (for the most part): to accept some advertising or to pay for the service. However, there also needs to be balance. The ads cannot be so obtrusive as to hinder the usability and enjoyment of the service.

Just my thoughts. Your mileage may vary.

[aSiriusTHoTH]

agreed

No, I agree with what you are saying. There needs to be a balance, a ton of ads tends to be annoying.

I think the whole content with ads thing will backfire and this is bad for Google as i'm sure this was one of the main reasons why they bought YouTube, hundreds of millions of vidoes to put ads on.

I think when a lot of ads come, people will go elsewhere. There are thousands of startups that just in a few or so will be at the YouTube level.... Web2 is definitely here...

[wartickler]

Lifetime Membership

How cool would it be to get in on the groundfloor of this as a members service?! Yeah you can post free videos but say you want to link to your site?...membership strips leading ads! Or, maybe instead of leading ads they could have trailing ads instead...gives you the option to close it but also plays out if you don't touch anything...I happen to do three things (at least) on my machine and would probably see a few ads at a time... maybe...

[bcaulfield]

Nice story

wow.

[Jim Hubbard]

Holy God! What happened to CNET?

First it was the less informative, "but, gee, it's pretty!" interface change, and now the horrendous talkback interface changes!

Notice that there is no way for us to vote on these changes, and for good reason - they suck.

Read it now....it;ll surely be deleted soon.

[Jon Skillings]

Send in your feedback

It's not voting on the changes, exactly, but you can click here to speak your mind about the new look:

http://news.com.com/2030-12_3-5869813.html

[wartickler]

Monetization of Eyeballs

I was under the impression that Google made some copyright deals with other networks as well and was going to bring YouTube under their copyright umbrella to protect themselves. How does Fox and MTV feel about YouTube? Sure, it was a great site that didn't make money and broke every conceivable Intelligent Property concept on the books...can Google bring it into correction? I would think that ANY monetization of YouTube is a step towards making it a legitimate video site. Yahoo! and MSN are the only other real contenders in the video arena and they both apply advertisements to their video lines.And, Google is now in a position to steal the show with the number one AND number two slots handled. I like Google for this and all the other companies it's acquired. Smart move to conglomerate one and two into the absolute king of video. Booyah!

[i_made_this]

I'm convinced GOOG will opt for post-roll..

..beyond all the licensing & copywrite mumbo-jumbo which you know GOOG's legal team has already addressed pre-purchase of YouTube, the issue boils down to sticking with the single key feature GoogleVideo AND YouTube offer which differentiates them (and MySpace for that matter) from MSFT & YHOO's product: click and link without an annoying pre-roll ad. Yes, they'll probably monetize this by sacrificing the degree of ad revenue in favor of the far more attractive post-roll. Users can watch the show and kill the damn post-roll ad.

I suspect GOOG's next eyeballs buy may well be MySpace. The strategic relationship between them is strong to begin with. I would've liked to be a fly on the wall at the Schmidt/Murdoch meeting behind closed doors last week. We can rest assured that the two kings of their domains need not have met mano a mano about any old business matter.
MySpace won't come cheap like YouTube did for the obvious reasons. GOOG is paying for all of these assets in stock anyway, so it's quite not the "huge" cash price melodrama issue ppl are making it out to be.