What Progress Has Google Made With Youtube In The Last 6 Months?

March 23rd, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Many pundits predicted when Google acquired Youtube that a number of distribution deals would be signed with major content houses which would legitimise the service and allow Youtube to serve Google adverts alongside videos.

However, 6 months later very few deals have materialised and the big news this month instead has been Viacom’s billion dollar lawsuit, which doesn’t bode well for Youtube. In addition to this, we had the announcement yesterday of a new joint venture between NBC Universal and Fox to create a new video portal to ‘rival’ Youtube. Distribution deals have already been struck with Yahoo, AOL, MSN and MySpace which will put the new service in front of a lot of eyeballs.

Do you think that Youtube will be able to develop along the lines that many people expected by doing big deals with media houses? It looks to me like many media houses aren’t falling over themselves to work with Youtube. Or, do you think Youtube will continue to be the number one site for personal videos, once it is finally forced to police properly the uploading of copyrighted material?

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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    Comment by Mark from Bloglyne.com on 24 March 2007:

    I think that Google vastly under-estimated the investment that would be needed to “police” the content of YouTube.

    I wonder if the new ventures will make the same mistake? Also, the new guys will need to ensure the “ease” of interface if they want their service to take off.

    It would be great to have another option when it comes to online video posting besides YouTube, but, it comes down to the “devil you know” vs the one you don’t… right?

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