Comments on: Google’s Price for Bad Marketing: $1.65 Billion http://storagemojo.com/2006/10/10/googles-price-for-bad-marketing-165-billion/ Data storage info & analysis Tue, 15 May 2012 23:44:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Robin Harris http://storagemojo.com/2006/10/10/googles-price-for-bad-marketing-165-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-6561 Robin Harris Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:38:24 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=268#comment-6561 John, I'll see what I can do to learn more about YouTubes infrastructure. From what Google has said so far, YouTube will remain largely independent, moving into their new building as planned. From reports I've seen YouTube's big advantage is on the user side. They designed their system to take whatever came in and turn it into a common format. Google Video insisted on pre-processing by users to put it into a common format, which turned people off. Given that YouTube is reportedly profitable, with ad sales of over $5 million a month, Google doesn't have a reason to worry about costs. I'd guess that they will be all over the ad opportunities as well as continuing to work the copyright issues, which I have no doubt they can. Infrastructure is likely to be a distant third if that. Robin John, I’ll see what I can do to learn more about YouTubes infrastructure.

From what Google has said so far, YouTube will remain largely independent, moving into their new building as planned. From reports I’ve seen YouTube’s big advantage is on the user side. They designed their system to take whatever came in and turn it into a common format. Google Video insisted on pre-processing by users to put it into a common format, which turned people off.

Given that YouTube is reportedly profitable, with ad sales of over $5 million a month, Google doesn’t have a reason to worry about costs. I’d guess that they will be all over the ad opportunities as well as continuing to work the copyright issues, which I have no doubt they can. Infrastructure is likely to be a distant third if that.

Robin

]]> By: John http://storagemojo.com/2006/10/10/googles-price-for-bad-marketing-165-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-6543 John Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:39:28 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=268#comment-6543 I like the notion of YouTube being a storage, and indeed it is, with a good user interface. Now from technology point of view, any insight on how are YouTube and Google going to integrate their storage platforms? Maybe they will never. Looks to me video files are very different than what GFS and BigTable suit, especially these video files are often updated. ( I have never uploaded anything to YouTube. Are you allowed to delete the files you uploaded? ) It would be great if some information of the YouTube infrastructure can be discussed. I like the notion of YouTube being a storage, and indeed it is, with a good user interface. Now from technology point of view, any insight on how are YouTube and Google going to integrate their storage platforms? Maybe they will never. Looks to me video files are very different than what GFS and BigTable suit, especially these video files are often updated. ( I have never uploaded anything to YouTube. Are you allowed to delete the files you uploaded? ) It would be great if some information of the YouTube infrastructure can be discussed.

]]> By: Robin Harris http://storagemojo.com/2006/10/10/googles-price-for-bad-marketing-165-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-6524 Robin Harris Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:41:21 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=268#comment-6524 Jeremiah, A distant third - with about 1/3rd the audience of the leader and just above MSN video. Not only that, and more importantly from a business perspective, much <a href=http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2006/08/google_youtube_and_myspace_an.html target="_blank" rel="nofollow">weaker</a> in the advertiser-coveted 18-24 year old demographic. Opinions can reasonably differ about this. Mine is that when you have $10 billion in the bank and one of the most visited sites on the web, a distant 3rd is failure. If being #3 was success, why buy #1? Robin Jeremiah,

A distant third – with about 1/3rd the audience of the leader and just above MSN video. Not only that, and more importantly from a business perspective, much weaker in the advertiser-coveted 18-24 year old demographic.

Opinions can reasonably differ about this. Mine is that when you have $10 billion in the bank and one of the most visited sites on the web, a distant 3rd is failure. If being #3 was success, why buy #1?

Robin

]]> By: Jeremiah Owyang http://storagemojo.com/2006/10/10/googles-price-for-bad-marketing-165-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-6523 Jeremiah Owyang Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:52:46 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=268#comment-6523 Not sure I consider Google Video a failure. Niall Kennedy suggests that Google Video is in 3rd place. http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/10/google-youtube.html It's Yahoo! that needs to move quickly now. Not sure I consider Google Video a failure.

Niall Kennedy suggests that Google Video is in 3rd place.

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/10/google-youtube.html

It’s Yahoo! that needs to move quickly now.

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