Comments on: Is Google’s message on YouTube starting to get through?

By: drewbie

drewbie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:04:26 +0000

If it were up to me, I’d set a limit of how many videos could be posted for free per month and/or limit the number of views a free account video can have per month. Then I’d offer a premium account that has unlimited uploads.

By: dvictr

dvictr — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:00:29 +0000

they could just charge the standard .99c to post videos.or incorporate a voting system to keep worthy videos up for free. it seems to many videos on the site are duplicated in various different quality and some are just bad period. consolidating the best content could resolve these issues

By: foota

foota — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:22:00 +0000

ganja web hosting is relatively cheap…. if you need 1 server that will at maximum need to upload to like 10 people at once. That being said however google stores (time to guess) around 1 petabyte of videos (for those of us not mathematically/technically inclined that is 1024 terabytes which is 1,048,576 gigabytes), now anyalysts in 2006 assumed that google had around 100,000 servers and used 20 terabytes of bandwidth per day ,for comparison that is the same as streaming the entire literary collection of the library of congress. Streaming 20 terabytes costs alot of money…..as mike moran says “Given the cost of servers, storage, and bandwidth for streaming so much video over the Web, it’s certainly true that it costs them a bundle–far more than they ever expected.”sourceshttp://www.searchengine guide.com/mike-moran/googles-youtube-mon ey-pit.phphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L ibrary_of_Congress

By: GanjaSoldier

GanjaSoldier — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:48:56 +0000

Google isn’t losing money off of Youtube..if there wasn’t money in Youtube, they never would have made the move to purchase it in the first place.Web hosting is cheap as hell these days.And as for charging, I say ‘Free to All’ and keep on downloading!

By: foota

foota — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:51:38 +0000

If youtube charges a fee i’m sure that the population, having lost what youtube had to offer in the first place(the freedom), will just simply make another free video hosting site dailymotion extremly popular. That being said youtube rally should find some way of making money because as its popularity increases so does the bandwidth consumption and the load on the server. and if google believes that youtube has ceased to be worth its while im sure that they could find it in their hearts to drop youtube! (resulting in a very many broken links =P)

By: Armand

Armand — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:35:45 +0000

I also agree with C-cats’s comment. IMO, if YouTube had a fee to create an account, then LESS people would join. You would think that the fee would help them make money, but YouTube is so popular because it is free. Less people would join if there was a charge for applying, and it would make the fee pointless.

By: Fo0-zAi

Fo0-zAi — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:11:08 +0000

Yeah i’d agree on C-cats-c-cats-run’s comment. If Youtube was provided to internet users as a free service in the first place, then it should remain that way. If it changes, the outcome will be bad.

By: izzie lowrie

izzie lowrie — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:55:08 +0000

BAGELS?!?!?

By: Geoffrey Rockett

Geoffrey Rockett — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:36:30 +0000

YouTube should remain, in part, as what it was brought to the world to do, “Broadcast Yourself”.However, if they are to remain viable in this digital world, they should be pressing to get more content such as television shows, old movies, or music video (remember those MTV?)and the ability to download that content to a local drive, burn it to DVD and pay for it as if I went and bought it or ordered it online.Maybe team up with Redbox and charge $1.50 for viewing new releases. Then allow you to watch old movies like Frankenstein (1931) for free while advertising similar movies or remakes such as Frankenstein (1994)or The Bride (1985) and charge $1.00 if they choose to view other content.My idea, no one elses. For more information, contact me Google and Redbox.

By: C-cats-c-cats-run

C-cats-c-cats-run — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:55:51 +0000

by the by….the above is a horrible idea. Charging? charging? Charging?! one day the internet won’t be free….and I’m going to go buy farmland.