Archive for YouTube
October 27, 2006 at 1:48 pm · Filed under YouTube, Money, Google, Miscellaneous
I first wrote about this back when the Lovelygirl13 event unfolded on YouTube. If you didn’t follow the story, and hopefully most of you didn’t, it was a marketing ploy put on by a couple guys who probably have dollar signs in their contact lenses. The cast was a girl who always looked… well… lonely. She led her fan base through a journey of her life via YouTube only to watch them fall flat on their faces when it was discovered that it was all a fake. Read the rest of this entry »
October 9, 2006 at 2:44 pm · Filed under Adsense, YouTube, Google, Miscellaneous
Copyrighted Material
In order to avoid associations with copyright claims, website publishers may not display Google ads on web pages with MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image Results.
Interesting. From what I see here YouTube is in clear violation of Google Adsense TOS. The reason it’s interesting to me is because I’ve had issues with the Adsense team in the past that involved them telling me that I was breaking the TOS for similar reasons.
I guess it just goes to show that if you’ve got the cash you get to pick the rules.
Will we see a change in TOS?
October 7, 2006 at 7:10 pm · Filed under Search Engines, Adsense, YouTube, Google, Miscellaneous
I think Shoemoney hit the nail on the head with this post. Currently there is an infinite tail of blog posts about how “stupid” Google would be to buy YouTube and how “worthless” YouTube really is.
Is that so?
Let’s be honest here. A lot of us feel Google has some serious issues with its search engine. A lot of us dislike the way Google runs things from time to time. But the bottom line is that Google is smart. They know how to make money and they know how to find space for Adsense.
And to those of you who think the legal headache that comes with YouTube is too much for Google, Shoemoney makes a nice point to end the debate.
Legal issues are not issues - Cmon your talking about the company that scans library books and puts them online… AND GETS AWAY WITH IT
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October 6, 2006 at 9:55 pm · Filed under YouTube, Money, Blogging, Google, Miscellaneous
I just woke up after a long night of blogging of working on my blogs and very little sleep, and the first RSS feed to drop in is the big Google meets YouTube story. It’s not only making its way across the blogosphere, it’s also on Fox News and a plethora of other sources. This is BIG news.
YouTube, a video hosting site with millions of visitors, has been smelling trouble on the horizon for some time now. The struggling company is not far from an arsenal of copyright lawsuits and it knows it needs to move and fast. I think this particular direction is the right way to go.
From the looks of things, Google will buy YouTube for $1.6 billion. What this means is that you can plan on seeing Google video take the lead in vlogging and free online video hosting. With Google in the lead we’ll no doubt see many innovations moving forward.
I think this is good for YouTube and good for Google. Everyone comes out in a little bit of a better position.
Good stuff!
Hat-Tip: Gizmodo
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