Comments on: Google goes after video, forgets about YouTube

Google is getting in on the "Family Guy" craze, but Don Reisinger doesn't think it's the best idea. Should YouTube play a part in this deal?

[cporpheus]

I think Google is creating two classes of video through this deal: the "high-quality" Hulu type of videos that can be sold in this fashion using adsense and the viral, home-made videos on youtube that have yet to give Google anything. Yahoo bought <insert favorite web site/service here> and can't find a way of profiting from it and Google is like Yahoo in this sense with youtube.

[futonpimp]

yeah exactly....


Youtube = Your personal video's....and it should stay that way..it gained popularity that way.. it shouldn't change.


high quality video that people will actually pay for..should be completely seperate.

[podcomics]

We think this is fantastic for short form animated Web series. We believe we have the world's first daily animated series on the internet called "Traveling Gringos". Our shorts are around 30 seconds each and come out Monday-Friday. We have been releasing daily episodes since February of 2008.
www.podcomics.com

[onlyauser]

yawn

[make_or_break]

Didn't you guys rant about this (YouTube tubed) already? You what they say about spur of the moment purchases...

[theroyalspeaker]

hi. uhm, care to xlink?

pls add my new blog.

http://theroyalspeaker.blogspot.com


thanks.

[theroyalspeaker]

whoa. really?

Well, i think google is just doing the right thing.

guys, care to xlinks?

pls add my new blog to your blog roll.

http://theroyalspeaker.blogspot.com

thanks.

[meenoo5]

Don, you just might be the most under qualified moron to have ever worked at CNet. Before you start suggesting and company strategy-and mind you, just not any company, but google!- you would be well advised to take a course in marketing a learn a little about brand dilution. If google does not want to integrate this into YouTube, perhaps its because one series or cartoon will confuse consumers into identifying with what the brand is actually doing.

It seems like all your articles simply stem from stupid childish curiosities that somebody at CNET should answer for you. I cant believe you get a column to write about this stuff. Wouldnt be surprised if they fired you soon with all the frustration CNET users are feeling these days.

[ofmyony]

Don does not write for CNET and try proof reading you comment for poor grammar and manners.

[meenoo5]

Don, you just might be the most under qualified moron to have ever worked at CNet. Before you start suggesting and company strategy-and mind you, just not any company, but google!- you would be well advised to take a course in marketing a learn a little about brand dilution. If google does not want to integrate this into YouTube, perhaps its because one series or cartoon will confuse consumers into identifying with what the brand is actually doing.

It seems like all your articles simply stem from stupid childish curiosities that somebody at CNET should answer for you. I cant believe you get a column to write about this stuff. Wouldnt be surprised if they fired you soon with all the frustration CNET users are feeling these days.

[dd13reis]

Yikes, looks like somebody is a bit upset today. Can you provide real examples as to why I'm the most "under-qualified moron to have ever worked at CNET?"

It sounds to me like you're a Google apologist that doesn't care about anything the company does wrong and only chooses to believe it does everything right.

Maybe it's time you look at the company's financial statements and realize that YouTube is in deep trouble -- its income isn't even material to the company's financial statements -- before you start making bold accusations that mean, well, nothing.

-Don

[ofmyony]

Don does not write for CNET and try proof reading you comment for poor grammar and manners.

[meenoo5]

Don, you just might be the most under qualified moron to have ever worked at CNet. Before you start suggesting and company strategy-and mind you, just not any company, but google!- you would be well advised to take a course in marketing a learn a little about brand dilution. If google does not want to integrate this into YouTube, perhaps its because one series or cartoon will confuse consumers into identifying with what the brand is actually doing.

It seems like all your articles simply stem from stupid childish curiosities that somebody at CNET should answer for you. I cant believe you get a column to write about this stuff. Wouldnt be surprised if they fired you soon with all the frustration CNET users are feeling these days.

[ofmyony]

Don does not write for CNET and try proof reading you comment for poor grammar and manners.

[just_a_reader]

Besides that of making products or services, the sole purspose of a company is to profit from those goods or services it supplies. This deal, is perhaps one of many different ways in which Google is attempting to monetizing Internet traffic. What this moves suggests is that Internet, as a medium will end up developing much like TV as a medium...

The only distinction is that Internet content will develop more freely due to the lack of regulations inherrent with TV broadcasting. That is, Internet contenct is not subject to a spectrum controlled throgh government auction. Accordingly, We are now seeing the Internet develop much like the early days of Television in a market more free of market distortions. As a result, content is less conducive to control by Networks granted monopolistic power by the government.

Google is probably learning that YouTube and other such sites are much like Public Access channels.

[dd13reis]

Public Access Channels that cost billions of dollars and millions a month to operate with no revenue and no government subsidy.

YouTube is in trouble and it's a major drain on the company's financial health.

-Don

[make_or_break]

Hmmm....looks like the Google/YouTube shills have been visiting your posting, Don old boy...

[dd13reis]

Certainly looks that way. That's OK, I think most people see them for what they really are.

-Don

[gubatron]

"is still hanging around with no prospects for revenue and no advertising platform"

I find it funny when people say youtube makes no money, when video that don't have even a 2% of the market share google has, are already making millions of dollars every month, charging CPM higher than $22 and selling ad campaigns in the hundreds of thousands of dollars... why do you think google doesn't make money? it's ridiculous to say it doesn't with such a huge audience, it's a mass media, it doesn't need to put explicit ads to be making money... try to create a video and place it on their home page, and ask how much it costs to have a featured video in there.

[dd13reis]

I think you need to read the company's financial statements and get a feel for what YouTube really is. No marketer with lots of money to spend is going to advertise with YouTube. According to the company's financial statements, what little revenue it has from YouTube "isn't material to the financial statements."

In other words, it's a very small amount.

Size doesn't matter if you can't make money.

-Don

[cporpheus]

@meenoo5 Dude, Don isn't an employee of CNET, so he can't get fired. CNET features his articles for his opinions, not to be agreeable.

[podcomics]

We think this is fantastic for short form animated Web series. We believe we have the world's first daily animated series on the internet called "Traveling Gringos". Our shorts are around 30 seconds each and come out Monday-Friday. We have been releasing daily episodes since February of 2008.
www.podcomics.com

[blabtech]

So youtube was a bad investment for google, it seems... I think they have a strategy for it... after all Google is a search king..

http://blabtech.blogspot.com

[xnowimcoolx]

nice, the update that defeats the entire purpose of your blog is placed conveniently at the very bottom.

[tech2check]

Youtube is now popular so why google should pay that attention to it...

<a href=""www.tech2check.org">Tech 2 Check</a>

[galacticgufus]

so what if youtube doesn't make any money. that's what the mpaa claims as well... and they make billions. youtube is still a load better than the mpaa and tv.
google is roxxors to give us the public service of youtube.