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1. ronp Says:
   January 26th, 2007 at 10:59 am

   the problem is that there is no technology (not even one that the almighty google) that will be able to eliminate copyright violations. not without getting rid of the reason that people really come to youtube. and btw the dirty little secret is that as much as the “old” media whine about it they don’t want it to happen either!. maybe you could float this question at Davos since my invitation must have been lost in the post.

   New media (google/youtube) pay Old media hundreds of millions so that New media can post clips & trailers of Old media content and therefore get more people/eyeballs to watch Old media product. At the same time the New Media company (google/youtube) after giving 100’s of millions to Old media cannot monetize their business via advertising because if they do the Old media will sue them under the safe harbor/fair use provisions of the telco act. my question to the esteemed group is who is smarter: Old media or New media?

2. greg0658 Says:
   January 26th, 2007 at 11:36 am

   1st - Cough, User Generated Content -
   Take it for what it is, ie: getting off the couch and returning to recreation in muliple platforms. There are pro to amature players in all fields & everybody wants to be noticed.

   2nd - fees to license just wedding video music would be huge-
   Posting copyrighted stuff is a problem, ie creating copies for the masses. Allthough, I always thought an artist should feel gratified his/her music is selected for a wedding video. Using purchased copyrighted material IN HOUSE in a remixed video or plain audio production should not be a problem. Art purchased and used inside your own walls is yours to do with, if an artist dislikes that, don’t sell your art. I am happy that download audio has come. Folks want the music background of their lives to back up their pictures. And the download structure has created the mechanism to not pirate music in production copies. I would suggest the music industry get going and eliminate the middle man like Wal-Mart.

3. Vincent Abry Says:
   January 26th, 2007 at 4:19 pm

   Actually Youtube won its bet with a website with no ads at all where others like Revver did not succeed although they were sharing ad revenues with video owners.
   But now Youtube is belonging to Google, banner ads appear and they want to share revenue now with video owners. Will Youtube remains the no1? Not sure

4. NewTeeVee » YouTube to Share Revenue with Creators Says:
   January 26th, 2007 at 6:58 pm

   [...] Attendee Jeff Jarvis taped the statements and posted them to his blog: [...]

5. YouTube Hears The Users Calling and Agrees To Finally Give Them Some Money » Publishing 2.0 Says:
   January 26th, 2007 at 10:17 pm

   [...] Turns out that YouTube has finally heard the call. Here’s Chad Hurley founder at Davos (courtesy of Jeff Jarvis): [...]

6. Davos07: thoughts on the importance of video « The Bankwatch Says:
   January 27th, 2007 at 1:21 am

   [...] What struck me more than anything is that he talks about how … he wanted to build a community of people who wanted to be there to be there and who would not just leave to the next best offer. [...]

7. Beta Alfa » Detta är nytt pÃ¥ YouTube Says:
   January 27th, 2007 at 4:55 am

   [...] BuzzMachine: Chad Hurley on YouTube… on YouTube [...]

8. You tube to share its income « An Expression of Myself Says:
   January 27th, 2007 at 8:13 am

   [...] Posted by Rexted on January 27th, 2007 Jeff Davis of buzzmachine.com blog about Chad Hurley, founder of YouTube, statement regarding sharing of income to the Youtube film maker. Below is the statement that was found at the above mentioned site. According to Jeff davis: …….He also says that he does intend to share money with video producers……. [...]

9. Before I die « Life on the road Says:
   January 27th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

   [...] 27 Jan 2007 Before I die Posted by afterlife under Personal  I was saying this morning that I should make a list ofthings I want to do before I die.  Going to the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland is certainly one of them.  See what YouTube announced there.   [...]

10. BuzzRun.com » Archive » YouTube to Share Revenue with Content Creators Says:
    January 27th, 2007 at 1:10 pm

    [...] Attendee Jeff Jarvis taped the statements and posted them to his blog. [...]

11. Marco Raaphorst - componist en geluidsontwerper » Blog Archive » YouTube gaat haar auteurs betalen! Says:
    January 27th, 2007 at 4:02 pm

    [...] var flashObject = new FlashObject(”http://www.youtube.com/v/JlYtu63_uDE”,”fm_JlYtu63_uDE”,”425″,”350″,”6″,”",”",”",”",”"); flashObject.addParam(”wmode”, “transparent”); flashObject.write(”fo_targ_JlYtu63_uDE1876757971″); Met dank aan Jeff Jarvis! [...]

12. YouTube/Google partnership news from Davos. » backward five » Blog Archive Says:
    January 27th, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    [...] Chad Hurley, one of the co-founders of YouTube, was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland at a session called “The user takes charge of content”, where he commented briefly on some of the company’s plans. Jeff Jarvis was there and has uploaded the video clip to YouTube, appropriately. You can go watch the video at Jeff’s blog, Buzzmachine, but here is a partial transcription that I did last night: [...]

13. TINKIN’s Gibberish » YouTube To Pay For User-Generated Content Says:
    January 27th, 2007 at 6:18 pm

    [...] From Slashdot: (original article) “Speaking at the World Economic Forum, YouTube CEO Chad Hurley has revealed that the company plans to financially compensate users who produce and upload their content. With Google’s purchase of YouTube last year, followed by more aggressive attempts to monetize the site (such as the deal struck with Verizon Wireless), it was inevitable that YouTube would come under pressure to share some of those fruits with ordinary users. But why didn’t YouTube pay its users from the start? Hurley said: ‘We didn’t want to build a system that was motivated by monetary reward. We wanted to really build a true community around video. When you start out with giving money to people from day one, the people you do attract will just switch to the next provider who’s paying more. We’re at a scale now that we feel we can do that and still have a true community around video.’” [...]

14. A call goes out: Pay the Tubers! » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work Says:
    January 27th, 2007 at 6:21 pm

    [...] Like many others in the blogosphere — including Ashkan Karbasfrooshan at HipMojo, Allan Stern at CenterNetworks, Fred Wilson over at A VC, and my pal Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 — I’m intrigued by Chad Hurley’s comments to the crowd of tall foreheads at Davos that YouTube plans to start paying users. The only questions that remain, of course, are a) pay whom? and b) How? [...]

15. YouTuber Users to Receive Ad Revenue » Personal Insights on Web 2.0, Blogging, and Business Says:
    January 27th, 2007 at 6:51 pm

    [...] This is certainly big news - YouTube is going to start giving contributors a cut of the revenue that YouTube makes off advertisements shown during their videos. The goal is to encourage creativity. Since most people (and companies) simply follow the leader, I’m guessing we’ll see an influx of sites implementing this model in their user-generated web sites. I applaud Chad Hurley for a good business model — he focused on getting the passionate users who wanted to participate for the right reasons before focusing on incentives. I think it’s something many sites miss — in my mind, the quality of community content goes down with increased monetary incentives. It really comes down to the fact that passion is crucial to great contributions and money does not correspond with passion. I don’t think sites that start out sharing revenue (such as Revver) will succeed. More coverage at NewTeeVee, BuzzMachine, Techmeme, and ZDNet. [...]

16. YouTube to Share Revenue with Creators » D’ Technology Weblog — Technology, Blogging, Gadgets, Fashion, Life Style. Says:
    January 27th, 2007 at 7:07 pm

    [...] Attendee Jeff Jarvis taped the statements and posted them to his blog: [...]

17. YouTube Users Get Paid - Death Blow to Revver? - Mashable! Says:
    January 27th, 2007 at 7:26 pm

    [...] YouTube founder Chad Hurley is making waves for hinting that YouTube plans to share revenue with users - he made the statements at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday. Jeff Jarvis grabbed a video of Hurley’s comments and posted it, fittingly, to YouTube (also embedded below). [...]

18. YouTube To Give Cash Back To Its Community at sellsius° real estate blog Says:
    January 28th, 2007 at 1:26 am

    [...] (H/T) Drew Meyers’ Personal Insights NewTeeVee (with video clip from the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, courtesy of BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis) ZDNet Listen to this podcast [...]

19. La Tejedora » Blog Archive » YouTube, compartir es cosa de dos Says:
    January 28th, 2007 at 8:39 am

    [...] Todos quieren tus vídeos, y ante la creciente competencia del sector empieza a ser necesario recompensar a los creadores con algo más que una distribución rápida y barata. Sitios como la israelí Metacafe, LuluTV, Revver o Break ya ofrecen a los productores parte de los beneficios que obtienen a través de la publicidad, y YouTube no iba a quedarse atrás. Chad Hurley, uno de los fundadores de la página adquirida por Google, ha anunciado en Davos que también compartirán con los usuarios esos ingresos. Los usuarios podrán seguir así mostrando sus creaciones al resto de internautas, y no sólo el sitio que los aloja recibirá dinero, apilcación del concepto de compartir con los beneficios circulando en ambos sentidos. [...]

20. Don Says:
    January 28th, 2007 at 11:43 am

    Ignoring the problems with copywrite issues, I doubt that the average Joe user on YouTube will make more than enough to get a cup of coffee. Don’t quit your day job to be a YouTube star yet folks.

21. galeal zino Says:
    January 28th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    One aspect not getting enough play is that this also creates a better monetization platform for the traditional media giants. I think it is their requirements that will drive the ultimate parameters of this platform, and therefore they likely benefit the most as well.

22. Ionut Oprea » O saptamana Google! Says:
    January 29th, 2007 at 2:53 am

    [...] “We didn’t want to build a system that was motivated by monetary reward. We wanted to really build a true community around video. When you start out with giving money to people from day one, the people you do attract will just switch to the next provider who’s paying more. We’re at a scale now that we feel we can do that and still have a true community around video.” zice Chad Hurley, co-fondatorul YouTube.” (video aici) [...]

23. Starked SF, Unforgiving News from the Bay » Blog Archive » Linker Barn: Monday, January 29 Says:
    January 29th, 2007 at 8:16 am

    [...] Chad Hurley on the possibility of paying YouTubers. [...]

24. Dan Blank: Publishing, Innovation and the Web » Blog Archive » YouTube: Sharing Revenue with Content Creators Says:
    January 29th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

    [...] YouTube founder Chad Hurley has announced that in the future, the site will share revenue with those who create and upload videos to the site. His reason for waiting: [...]

25. YouTube Delivers Knock-Out Punch to Competitors Says:
    January 29th, 2007 at 7:10 pm

    [...] YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley has hinted future plans of revenue-sharing at YouTube in the coming months. The BBC is speculating that the ads might take the form of 3-second pre-roll, but Chad Hurley didn’t mention that in his comments. [...]

26. Innovatorz.org Home (Test) » Blog Archive » YouTube Delivers Knock-Out Punch to Competitors Says:
    January 29th, 2007 at 8:17 pm

    [...] YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley has hinted future plans of revenue-sharing at YouTube in the coming months. The BBC is speculating that the ads might take the form of 3-second pre-roll, but Chad Hurley didn’t mention that in his comments. [...]

27. Multimedias.mobi » YouTube Delivers Knock-Out Punch to Competitors Says:
    January 29th, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    [...] YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley has hinted future plans of revenue-sharing at YouTube in the coming months. The BBC is speculating that the ads might take the form of 3-second pre-roll, but Chad Hurley didn’t mention that in his comments. [...]

28. TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » YouTube、ライバルにノックアウトパンチを浴びせる Says:
    January 29th, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    [...] YouTubeの共同ファウンダーChad Hurleyは、ここ数ヶ月のうちに収益を投稿者に分配する計画があることを示唆した。BBCは、これを（動画開始前に挿入される）３秒間のプレロール広告になるのではと推測しているが、Chad Hurley自身はコメント中で具体的には触れていない。YouTubeの数百万にも上るビデオクリップは巨大な資産だ。広告主にとっては〔YouTubeに出稿できるとなれば〕ビデオ広告を制作して、 Google AdSense Videoを利用し始める理由ができたことになる。おそらく３種類の関係者が収入の分配にあずかろうとするものと思われる。ビデオコンテンツの所有者：オリジナルの所有者(ビデオの所有者を特定し、オーディオ/ビデオコンテンツの利用料金を請求できるよう、オーディオトラックから「指紋」を抽出して著作権者を特定するシステムがしばらく前から稼動中）ビデオコンテンツの制作者：コンテンツをマッシュアップしてカスタマイズされたビデオクリップを制作した投稿者パブリッシャー —：ビデオコンテンツをウェブサイト上で公開していたユーザーまたは企業 ここでいろいろ疑問が涌いてくるが、その一つはYouTubeのビデオクリップに広告が挿入された場合、YouTubeの外のサイトでビデオを〔エンベッドして〕再生した場合にも広告が表示されるのかどうかという点だ。もし私がそのビデオのパブリッシャー（エンベッドしたビデオを表示しているサイトの運営者）なら、自分のサイトで表示された広告の収益の分配を求めるだろう。しかし、もし私がMySpaceのユーザーだったら、最終的なパブリッシャーはMySpaceということになる。MySpaceにはYouTubeのビデオが満載だが、MySpaceは外部の広告をサイト内で表示することを許していない。またMySpaceは何の理由も説明せずサードパーティーのウィジェットを時折ブロックすることがある。YouTubeは多分、MySpace内に〔無断で〕ビデオ広告を表示するような危険は冒さないだろう。GoogleはすでにMySpaceと親密な関係に入っており、MySpace内にストリームされるビデオ広告の収入の分配に関する話し合いが始まるものと思われる。 またYouTubeはMySpaceから理由なく締め出されるという仕打ちを受けたことは一度もない。YouTubeのライバルはみな広告収入の分配でYouTubeに対する特色を出そうと努力してきた。しかしダントツ首位のYouTubeが広告掲載というゲームに参入してくるとなれば、投稿者がRevver、Guba、Metacafeなどのマイナーなサイトを利用する動機はどんどん低くなってしまうだろう。Revverは２人のファウンダーを失い、GubaはCEOと２人の幹部を失うなど、ライバルたちの苦闘はすでに始まっている。編集部注： この記事はゲスト寄稿者Steve Polandによるもの。Steveは、自身のブログTechquila Shotsでウェブのスタートアップのアイディアについてのブレーンストーミングを展開している。[原文へ] Guba Revver YouTube [...]

29. YouTube Delivers Knock-Out Punch to Competitors at RazorSharp iPods & Raw Gadgets Says:
    January 30th, 2007 at 4:55 am

    [...] YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley has hinted future plans of revenue-sharing at YouTube in the coming months. The BBC is speculating that the ads might take the form of 3-second pre-roll, but Chad Hurley didn’t mention that in his comments. [...]

30. Reference: YouTube - From the Gargage to the Penthouse at Tycoons Row Says:
    January 30th, 2007 at 12:14 pm

    [...] It took only 24 months, as of January 2007, to rise from an idea in a garage to be acquired by a $1.65 billion dollar web penthouse — Google.  It took 3 passionate people, Chad Hurley (CEO), Steven Chen (CTO) and Jawed Karim to create an interesting idea, believe in it and share it with the world.  YouTube is a free service where anyone can create a video, share it, and users can give and receive feedback on it.  In only 3 months from registering the YouTube domain name in February 2005, the company received $3.5 million in venture capital from Sequoia.   YouTube runs independently from Google to maintain the brand that it has created.  However, today in collaboration with Google, YouTube has gone a step further acknowledging their growth and increasing the value of their service by giving value to their users.  That value will come from revenue sharing.  Jeff Jarvis of Buzz Machine shares his video about You Tubes’ future here: [...]

31. YouTube To Give Cash Back To Its Community | Real Estate, Loans and Mortgage Rates Says:
    January 31st, 2007 at 3:04 am

    [...] (H/T) Drew Meyers’ Personal Insights NewTeeVee (with video clip from the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, courtesy of BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis) ZDNet [...]

32. YouTube To Give Cash Back To Its Community | Real Estate, Loans and Mortgage Rates Says:
    January 31st, 2007 at 3:04 am

    [...] (H/T) Drew Meyers’ Personal Insights NewTeeVee (with video clip from the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, courtesy of BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis) ZDNet [...]

33. YouTube To Give Cash Back To Its Community | Real Estate, Loans and Mortgage Rates Says:
    January 31st, 2007 at 3:04 am

    [...] (H/T) Drew Meyers’ Personal Insights NewTeeVee (with video clip from the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, courtesy of BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis) ZDNet [...]

34. » links for 2007-02-01 » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel Says:
    February 1st, 2007 at 9:17 am

    [...] BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Davos07: Chad Hurley on YouTube… on YouTube Some word that YouTube will begin paying users who upload popular videos. (tags: youtube video money) Posted: February 1, 2007 by Nathan Weinberg in: [...]

35. altex “internetiturundus” marketing blog » 3-sekundilised reklaamid ja tüli tulujagamisel Says:
    February 2nd, 2007 at 6:52 am

    [...] Jeff Jarviselt lühike videoklipp, kus YouTube’i Chad Hurley räägib tegevusplaanidest: muuhulgas videotes kasutatud musa tuvastamine ning sellest lähtuv koostöö plaadifirmadega. BBC kirjutab samal teemal, lisades ka viite 3-sekundilise pre-roll reklaami võimalikkusele tulevikus. [...]

36. puremoney » Latest news Says:
    February 3rd, 2007 at 10:07 am

    [...] So YouTube will start paying some people for their videos — or at least “we’re definitely moving in that direction,” says co-founder Chad Hurley at Davos (hat tip to Jeff Jarvis). He doesn’t say how that would work, but he does explain a new “audio fingerprinting” system that would help record companies identify their music being used in user-generated videos. The idea, I think, is that both the record company and the video producer would share in the ad revenues generated by traffic to the video. [...]

37. Techo blog » Blog Archive » Morning links: DreamWorks ditches Aardman … Download revenue on the rise … More on YouTube ads Says:
    February 5th, 2007 at 5:36 am

    [...] The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film.John Battelle, who was at Davos for the announcement, has some additional perspective. Jeff Jarvis has a video clip. [...]

38. Tech blog » Blog Archive » Morning links: DreamWorks ditches Aardman … Download revenue on the rise … More on YouTube ads Says:
    February 7th, 2007 at 11:59 pm

    [...] The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film.John Battelle, who was at Davos for the announcement, has some additional perspective. Jeff Jarvis has a video clip. [...]

39. » From CinemaTech - Morning links: DreamWorks ditches Aardman … Download revenue on the rise … More on YouTube ads - Best Movie Blogs Says:
    February 9th, 2007 at 6:27 pm

    [...] The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film.John Battelle, who was at Davos for the announcement, has some additional perspective. Jeff Jarvis has a video clip. [...]

40. Digitaler Film » Chad, Bill und Steve melden sich zu Wort. Says:
    February 12th, 2007 at 4:31 am

    [...] Chad Hurley ließ in Davos fallen, dass YouTube plane seine User an den Einnahmen zu beteiligen bzw. einige User zu bezahlen. Für Viacom kommt die Äußerung zu spät, sie haben ihre ca. 100 000 Clips auf YouTube löschen lassen. Vor allem der Zeitpunkt der Äußerung gibt Rätsel auf, denn dass YouTube seine User irgendwann bezahlen wird war klar. Aber jetzt bestätigt die Äußerung nur das Geschäftsmodell der Konkurrenten. Diese Konkurrenten waren jedoch gerade dabei in der Bedeutungslosigkeit zu verschwinden, entweder geht das noch schneller, wenn YouTube anfängt zu bezahlen oder sie erhalten durch die Äußerung neuen Schwung (wobei solche Zahlen immer schwierig sind z.B. will Revver gar keine Destination-Site sein). Und natürlich hat Chad auch nicht die ominöse Frage beantwortet, wovon die User bezahlt werden sollen. Vielleicht sind ihm die $345.6 Millionen aus dem YouTube-Verkauf an Google zu viel und er möchte die Community daran beiteiligen. Werbeclips vor den Videos sollte er besser nicht gemeint haben immerhin würden das 73% der User ablehnen. [...]

41. YouTube to Share Ad Revenues With YouTubers Says:
    February 12th, 2007 at 4:21 pm

    [...] YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley made the announcement at the World Economic Forum in Davos. You can see the video here (thx Jeff Jarvis). In the video Hurley also talks about YouTube’s plans to protect the copyrights of music and video publishers. [...]

42. Digital Goggles » Blog Archive » Future of YouTube Says:
    February 17th, 2007 at 3:37 pm

    [...] Chad Hurley at Davos talks about how YouTube will begin moving towards sharing revenue with content creators and “audio fingerprinting” to identify music in videos such that labels will be able to generate revenue. He also does mention how monetization was not a top priority when initially building out the community. This is care of Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine who attended. Check it his post here. [...]

43. bripeklmun.dk: If The Pigman had a car, he would give you a ride. Says:
    February 18th, 2007 at 2:41 am

    [...] Speaking at the World Economic Forum, YouTube CEO Chad Hurley has revealed that the company plans to financially compensate users who produce and upload their content. With Google’s purchase of YouTube last year, followed by more aggressive attempts to monetize the site (such as the deal struck with Verizon Wireless), it was inevitable that YouTube would come under pressure to share some of those fruits with ordinary users. But why didn’t YouTube pay its users from the start? We didn’t want to build a system that was motivated by monetary reward. We wanted to really build a true community around video. When you start out with giving money to people from day one, the people you do attract will just switch to the next provider who’s paying more. We’re at a scale now that we feel we can do that and still have a true community around video. [...]

44. Chad Hurley Says:
    March 1st, 2007 at 10:38 pm

    Youtube is one of the most popular video sharing sites on the net. A year ago, co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were in between jobs, a pair of twentysomething geeks running up big credit card debts as they tooled around a garage trying to develop an easy way for people to share homemade videos on the Web.

    Hurley says, “I do not want to work hard. I want to live a soft life. I want to sleep for three hours every afternoon and nine hours at night. I do not want to stay awake the whole day so that I can get a few 350 grand at the end of each month. I do not want my talents to be exploited by a ruthless employer. I am a lazy man. That is why I choose to live off the net. I am too lethargic to try and survive in the real world. That is why I did not bother to hold down a job though my credit card debt soared.

    “On the net things are handed to me by Google. The idea of youtube came to me from a dinner party with a half-dozen friends in the greatest city in the world San Francisco. It was January, 2005, and we couldnt figure out a good solution. Sending the clips around by e-mail was a bust: The e-mails kept getting rejected because they were so big. Posting the videos online was a headache, too. So we created a site and put in basic software.

    “What I and Steve came up with is a Web site, now called YouTube, that has become an Internet phenomenon. Show the honey and the bees will flock to it. We worked for about six hours each week in a garage like that Apple dude Steve Jobs for two months designing youtube. We had the idea to create a community around the video.

    “Once that was done we knew that tons of millions of dollars would just flow into our laps after the Google buyour. We will not have to work hard. In the old economy you have to work really hard for a lousy promotion which might give you a few more grand if your employer is very generous. You have to get up early in the morning and run for a few 350 grand each month. On the net you can become rich without working hard.

    “On the net once you have the idea you just sit at home and then magic will happen. That is exactly what happened at Paypal, Skype, MySpace, Facebook. The basic, simple to design software that I and Chen designed allows people to post almost anything they like on YouTube in minutes. People can jack off on porn. Now we are sitting at home retired early after the Google buyout. Content has been handed to us on a silver platter. We do not have to slog hard to create content like a poorly paid online journalist who makes a lousy 450k each year. We do not have to experience daily financial pressure
    because our site does not get enough readers. We are not under pressure to meet deadlines. We get up at ten in the morning and consider that to be hard work. We do not have to work for ten llllong years. That is the privilege of those in the old economy. they take the tube to go to work for a bum 350,000 dollar paycheck at the end of the month.

    “We have it easy. The reason why we never held a job for more than a year was because we felt that a rope was attached to out necks. We would have had to stay chained in an office with four walls. It is such a pain to get up in the morning and run for the sake of a few 350 milli grand at the end of the month. The content that we offer is free. That is easy for us to that as we do not have to work to create it. Copyrighted work is there for our users to copy and paste as that is work which we have the right to copy. Other content
    comes from common folk wanting to share stuff.

    “Revenues will come from advertising. The net is a click and eyeballs business. Google understands this. All I had to do was make web users some crap. I had to keep it really, really simple and watch as the 400 million moronic teenagers flock to it. Forget about working hard for a a lousy 350 grand at the end of the month. That’s so old school.

    “If you get the eyeballs you get the offer. You don’t have to be first, you just have to be simple and appeal to the web crowd. Then Google, the original ‘not first, but simple’ giant will write you a check. That’s the new business model. Figure out the next hot thing that you can make simple for the average web user (kids) and those two ugly dudes from Google Sergei Brin and Larry Page will send you a jet full of cash. It’s not about brains or talent or skill which I lack as I am a child of the Internet. It’s about timing and simplicity.

    “The clicks come from youtube’s millions of eyeballs that we have not worked for. It is unearned traffic. We do not have to sweat and bleed for it. That is the privilege of poorly paid online journalists. I do not have to worry about losing my job as my content does not get enough page views. I do not have to take the initiative about my own life. I do not have to discipline myself. I do not have to worry about having a career. The millions of youtube.com visitors will ensure that this will never happen. I can simply focus on trying to build relationships with my tall, tough women friends in San Francisco. We hang out together. We work out together. We sleep in the afternoon together.”

45. Figure out the next hot thing and those two ugly dudes from Google will send you a jet full of cash - hedgy.com Says:
    March 9th, 2007 at 11:34 am

    [...] is a weird meme that seems to keep popping up in the comments section of blog posts (eg. here, here, here and here) relating to YouTube: Youtube is one of the most popular video sharing sites on the [...]

46. 2007 May 11 archive at PrezVid Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 7:05 am

    [...] As a tryout for a job as a talk-show host, it’s not bad. Broadcasting & Cable’s coverage here. Everybody loves to video YouTube’s founder and put it on YouTube; I did it here. [...]

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    April 14th, 2008 at 12:15 am

    YouTubeRobot.com today announces YouTube Robot 2.0, a tool that enables you to download video from YouTube.com onto your PC, convert it to various formats to watch it when you are on the road on mobile devices like mobile phone, iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC, PSP, or Zune.

    YouTube Robot allows you to search for videos using keywords or browse video by category, author, channel, language, tags, etc. When you find something noteworthy, you can preview the video right in YouTube Robot and then download it onto the hard disk drive. The speed, at which you will be downloading, is very high: up to 5 times faster than other software when you download a single file and up to 4 times faster when you download multiple files at a time.

    Manual download is not the only option with YouTube Robot. You may as well schedule the download and conversion tasks to be executed automatically, even when you are not around. Downloading is followed by conversion to the format of your choice and uploading videos to a mobile device (if needed). For example, you can plug in iPod, select the video, go to bed, and when you wake up next morning, your iPod will be ready to play new YouTube videos.

    Product page: http://www.youtuberobot.com
    Direct download link: http://www.youtuberobot.com/download/utuberobot.exe
    Company web-site: http://www.youtuberobot.com
    E-mail: support@youtuberobot.com

48. Sohbet Says:
    April 27th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film.John Battelle, who was at Davos for the announcement, has some additional perspective. Jeff Jarvis has a video clip.

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