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What Could YouTube Be Worth?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the to-the-highest-bidder dept.

An anonymous reader writes "C|Net has a story about the possible cost of YouTube. Sony just paid $65 Million for small-time videosharing outfit 'Grouper'. That site has around 1% of the videosharing market. The article asks, at that price, what might YouTube's 43% be worth?" From the article: "Entertainment analysts have predicted in recent weeks that sites with large followings would command a high price. The Sony deal proved them right. But while the Grouper deal helped establish a benchmark, there is still plenty of confusion about the fair value of online video companies. This is because the typical metrics for measuring a company appear to have gone out the window--just like they did during the bubble years of the late 1990s."

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  1. Done and by b0r1s · · Score: 3, Informative

    done!

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  2. Re:Way to make money ... by Red+Alastor · · Score: 5, Informative

    You mean just like xtube is doing ?

    http://www.xtube.com/

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  3. Re:Way to make money ... by fury683 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.pornotube.com/

  4. Youtube may be worth the hardware they run on... by crazyjeremy · · Score: 3, Informative

    If Youtube doesn't get some more VC soon to pay their estimated $1mil/month bandwidth costs, they may be worth nothing more than 600 or so servers. http://blog.forret.com/2006/05/youtube-bandwidth-t erabytes-per-day/ Keep in mind that article was written in May... Bubble 2.0 can change a lot in 3 months.

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