Comments on: The Success of YouTube

By: Gunalan

Gunalan — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:14:38 +0000

i think youtube’s hype will die down in couple of years…. the site is crowded with useless stuff… it doesn’t have a clean feel to it… but facebook would be the next big thing until something else comes along.

By: YouTube成功關鍵：堅持原味，誤打誤撞 (Mr. 6)

YouTube成功關鍵：堅持原味，誤打誤撞 (Mr. 6) — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:16:56 +0000

[...] 這個包括創業家、創投、Google、教授學者、大家都不知道的大秘密就是：原來，影片可以是一種感染力特強的細菌！原來，分享影片這件事情，竟這麼有感染力！於是出現了「Viral Video」的詞彙。這裡有一個YouTube與Flickr的比較，可看見YouTube的pageview很快就超過相簿網站Flickr，雖然這件事也因為YouTube競爭者比Flickr少很多且Flickr大量使用AJAX技術可能降低其Pageview，但影片是「病毒之王」無庸置疑，而且「影片比相片還毒」、「影片比文字還毒」，總之影片是就是讓人很想去散播、去傳，它是一個心理病毒，透過人的滑鼠與鍵盤四處擴散。這個現象，就算哈佛大學的社會心理學家大概也不曾發現過。搞到最後，人們會因為某影片而認識YouTube，至今香港與中國大陸內地仍以「巴士阿叔的YouTube」來稱呼YouTube，當旗下次產品紛紛自己發揮自己的感染力，則原本母網站只會更成等比級數迅速發展，「Viral Video」以爆炸速度繼續蔓延。 [...]

By: “Podcast” Naming Debate - Part Deux « Marketing Nirvāna — by Mario Sundar

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:54:54 +0000

[...] The future will see audio & video being streamed across in much the same way as television functions today. The ascendancy of tv over radio will be mirrored on the web as well (think YouTube times ZeFrank), and we know that podcasting refers to music only. So why don’t we set our sights higher at defining what will be the future of web broadcasts – video AND audio. [...]

By: F. Duchot

F. Duchot — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 04:48:07 +0000

Of course the rumors have started to surface of an imminent s-1 filing and public offering. Which if you think of the value of popularity it makes sense. Supposedly Google had the option to buy MySpace 3 months before Rupert did at a 30% haircut on the purchase price but passed because “they could easily do it themselves.”

Now MySpace is shopping their search deal worth a purported half a billion dollars and the single largest search of queries outside of the google.com domain. That unlike all of us little guys who they don’t tell how much they pay out, they may pay as much of 90% of that direct to myspace.

So although an obvious business model has yet to exist with youtube, I say go for it.

Joe you look like you are as much of an alexaholic as I am, I do all of my alexa tracking on itsdEx and have massive watchlists of everything happening in Web 2.0 that I slice and dice with graphs; then buy and sell itsdEx shares based on what I think is going up. But the graphs couldn’t tell me how incredibly fast youtube has caught on as the tumbling techmeme of the year. Nice work Youtube.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:56:35 +0000

Nice graphs – and informative article there..

I LOVE YouTube. I can spend hours on there watching videos of my favorite bands, clips from TV shows, silly stuff, etc etc.

I hope the MPAA/RIAA/FCC keeps their hands off YouTube. You would think they would enjoy the free promotion the site brings to their films, shows, artists, etc…but they tend to be very short-sighted. Fingers crossed they’ll let us enjoy it for a while though.