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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. Re:It's all relative... by Morris+Thorpe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wait 'til the revolution? Will it be televised (or at least youtube-ized)?

  2. Mod parent DOWN by megaditto · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Thanks for linking a pornography streaming server in your link:

    Here I click on that and see the log:
    What are we doing on Vimeo at the moment:
    kinson added Ricky Van Veen as a contact.
    9:35 PM EST
    Tony uploaded Maple Leaf Rag - Short n' Messy

    'Maple Leaf Rag - Short n' Messy' is certainly the kind of video many Americans will apreciate.

    Won't anyone think of the children!
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    Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
  3. Re:Way to make money ... by krunk4ever · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Definitely needed to put not work safe.

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    HD Trailers
  4. Re:$2,795,000,000 by moZer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    YouDothemath

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  5. Re:$2,795,000,000 by brunes69 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It would be 2,522,464,794.14 USD according to xe.com

    And if the rapdily falling US dollar continues it's decline (yay Bush!) by sometime next year it will be $3,000,000,000 or more.

    Go loonie! :)