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Nathan

Member since: Aug 22nd, 2006

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Google Ad Supported Videos Test (Download Squad)

Aug 23rd 2006 12:59PM One of these is on ilounge.com

A media company seemingly lacking a business model? Maybe Apple should buy it... (TUAW.com)

Aug 22nd 2006 11:52PM YT is not a money-maker. The best bet for it to make money is to get an arrangement with DAP makers to allow users to download the video in the respective format (mp4, mov, etc.).

You can't sell the kind of stupidity that is on YT. Sure, some of it is actually good, but paying for a YT video is like paying for a podcast, and I'm not sure how many people would do that.

Apple-YouTube deal: farfetched or not? (TUAW.com)

Aug 22nd 2006 11:47PM Well... Apple doesn't actually have to buy YT, it just has to have a partnership with YT. Something like google does with the whole "download to iPod" sort of thing would do. Being able to save YT videos for the video iPod would give some of those video iPod users something shorter that won't drain their battery as much as a movie or TV show but still be enjoyable to watch.

There's no way you can sell YT videos, but adding the video blogs by those YT celebs to the iTMS could also work.