Tag Archive for ‘YouTube’

Hulu Profit Growth Trumps YouTube

There’s a lot of buzz over the Financial Times article on how News Corp backed video site Hulu is showing greater profit growth than competitor YouTube. MediaMemo and PaidContent both dig a bit deeper into the analysis behind the claims.

While Scott Karp over at Publishing 2.0 gives his ten “observations” about what this means for [...]

YouTube Meets President-Elect Barack Obama

President-elect Barack Obama made his first official video address today on YouTube. Obama will continue to record these videos and post them weekly, with the goal of making the White House and the political process more transparent.

While it has been reported that a “White House” YouTube channel will be launched soon after taking office, these [...]

Online Video Yet To Prove Profitable…

Erick Schonfeld over at TechCrunch wrote an excellent post on YouTube and online video today. He points out that many of the current video start-ups are struggling to find a viable business model.

Considering the current financial climate, future aquistions look bleak: “The only startups that will be bought are those with “demonstrable” revenues or those [...]

YouTube – Changing the Future of Entertainment?

Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-Founder of YouTube talked about the future of online video on the Google Blog today. He talks about how 13 hours of video content is loaded on to YouTube every minute.

Online video sure is a big deal, no doubt about that. Providing free hosting is also a big deal – no [...]