Google buying youtube?

The Haysta · **Posted:** October 10th, 2006, 4:24 am

This is a black day for You Tubers...

Adbot · **Posted:** October 10th, 2006, 4:24 am

The Killer · **Posted:** October 10th, 2006, 5:01 am

Well I'm just happy that Chad and Steve - the creators - are rich like hell now.

Mikhail · **Posted:** October 10th, 2006, 6:28 am

I'm not happy now that the *** google bought you tube!, At least it would be better if Microsoft Bought Google...

The Killer · **Posted:** October 10th, 2006, 7:10 am

I trust Google into not wrecking my interweb home.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** October 10th, 2006, 7:25 am

Are you joking?

Youtube is a black hole of lost profits from its massive bandwidth consumption. Anyone willing to buy Youtube would have to pour money into making EFFECTIVE adverts to offset the cost of streaming video. I doubt it'll happen. If I were Youtube, I'd take any buyer I can get. It's like Yahoo buying Flickr. Big mistake. I doubt it'll happen.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** October 10th, 2006, 7:26 am

Mushroom Queen wrote:

Are you joking?

Youtube is a black hole of lost profits from its massive bandwidth consumption. Anyone willing to buy Youtube would have to pour money into making EFFECTIVE adverts to offset the cost of streaming video. I doubt it'll happen. If I were Youtube, I'd take any buyer I can get. It's like Yahoo buying Flickr. Big mistake. I doubt it'll happen.

Proof to back that up?

I've seen no evidenmce of youtube being in trouble or having trouble.

Adbot · **Posted:** October 10th, 2006, 7:26 am

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** October 10th, 2006, 7:29 am

CreepyPirate wrote:

Mushroom Queen wrote:

Are you joking?

Youtube is a black hole of lost profits from its massive bandwidth consumption. Anyone willing to buy Youtube would have to pour money into making EFFECTIVE adverts to offset the cost of streaming video. I doubt it'll happen. If I were Youtube, I'd take any buyer I can get. It's like Yahoo buying Flickr. Big mistake. I doubt it'll happen.

Proof to back that up?

I've seen no evidenmce of youtube being in trouble or having trouble.

http://www.forbes.com/intelligentinfras ... video.html

Quote:

The site, which has raised $11.5 million in venture capital in the last year, didn't see a penny in revenue until March, when they cautiously began selling ads. Meanwhile the site's bandwidth costs, which increase every time a visitor clicks on a video, may be approaching $1 million a month--much of which goes to provider Limelight Networks.

Like I said: BLACK HOLE OF DEBT.

EDIT: Not to mention the lawsuits they're getting for copyright violations.

Ranging God · **Posted:** October 10th, 2006, 7:58 am

I like Google, and I think google will keep it youtube, but they will just own it. Not chage it. I mean they will be making more money so why not

The Killer · **Posted:** October 10th, 2006, 8:42 am

Thus the reason why I said that I'm happy about the Google thing.

Steve and Chad are now lifted (maybe partially but still) from their financial burdens with the deal.

Google? Well, I'm pretty sure they have enough money to maintain the site. I'd be damned if it was full of adverts and popups though.

Rune Beast0 · **Posted:** October 11th, 2006, 4:55 pm

I don't really care if Google buys YouTube as long as they dont make it:

(a. GooTube

(b. Expanded Google Video

or

(c. GooWee's Playhouse

The youtube community sucks. They bash like every video and spam it with swearing

So I dont really care about the community damage, maybe they'll get a better one.

Alex · **Posted:** October 14th, 2006, 1:18 am

Quote:

The youtube community sucks. They bash like every video and spam it with swearing

Yeah he's right. I don't understand why people do that, its all "you suck, blah blah blah" and thats just putting it nicely. I've posted video's on youtube.

But the 'Remove Comment' is always there for me.

The Killer · **Posted:** October 14th, 2006, 6:19 am

You're looking at the ghetto-ish community.

Kinda like runescape. People think that the community sucks because they judge it by looking at F2P.

Trust me on this; YouTube has a good community, if not a great one.

Rune Beast0 · **Posted:** October 14th, 2006, 10:57 am

Ultima-Kill3rz wrote:

You're looking at the ghetto-ish community.

Kinda like runescape. People think that the community sucks because they judge it by looking at F2P.

Trust me on this; YouTube has a good community, if not a great one.

I watched a video Creepy posted on here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nglqboFI3k

Read the comment page and you'll see what I mean.