Nickname: Chaz

Review: Well fast-forward...here it is June 2009 and the LA Times has an article explaining why Hollywood is holding-off any further development of proprietary webvideo sites because there's no money to be made in webisodic only productions. Turns out ad dollars aren't there and the biz model just isn't there either. Other than using web to crosspromote traditional TV & Movie products, web-only studios are closing.

Date reviewed: Jun 16, 2009 7:15 PM

Nickname: rajbir

Review: I came across this video on youtube called how much is your favourite video site worth??... It is insane if you see their value. http://youtube.com/watch?v=74gWUznqbTQ

Date reviewed: Apr 25, 2008 1:15 AM

Nickname: LjS

Review: There is little doubt that media content can be monetized on the Internet. A successful company will be the one that learns to target ads and create compelling Internet-exclusive content. The Internet is a tool, not a way to distribute pre-existing information (as it has been used in the past). Any company that can capitalize on these things will definitely be a compelling innovator and worthwhile investment.

Date reviewed: Oct 3, 2006 5:04 PM

Nickname: Nicholas Quixote

Review: We thought that you might find this reply to Lee Gomes WSJ article on YouTube stats interesting: http://www.rabbitbites.com/misc/youtube.html It raises questions on viewership, demographics , and bandwidth data. Thanks, NQ.

Date reviewed: Oct 2, 2006 11:22 PM

Nickname: Jimmy27

Review: Mark Cuban is probably right: $1B for Youtube may be too much. He has some expertise here because he was the beneficiary of Yahoo paying way too much for broadcast.com. It was about $1 billion and that was five years or so ago. There's no way the ROI on that deal ever pays off. Youtube at $1B is same issue.

Date reviewed: Oct 2, 2006 4:48 PM

Nickname: Cory

Review: It will be interesting to see how sites like Veoh merge specifically-targeted ads into their content. I think the highly anticipated point where we discover that monetization is either successful, or not, has arrived.

Date reviewed: Oct 2, 2006 5:50 AM