De cijfers en het succes van YouTube zijn bekend. Waar het naar toe moet met YouTube is echter niet bekend. De site brand zijn geinvesteerde geld hard op aan servers in datacenters over de gehele wereld en meta bandbreedte.
Wie het gaat kopen, nowbody knows. Je moet in ieder geval een hoop muntjes hebben om alle mogelijke toekomstige rechtzaken te kunnen betalen omrent copyrights.
Via Techcrunch.com laait nu het gerucht weer op dat toch Google de meest denkbare koper gaat worden. Ze hebben zeker het geld, Google Video is niet dat succes waar ze op hoopten, MySpace groeit als een kool. De Techcrunches houden het op 40% kans, volgens mij ligt het dichter bij de 50%. Wie meer weet moet het beslist roepen!
Update: Google plans $1.6bn bid for YouTube
Citing Wall Street bankers, The Guardian reports that the bid could happen as early as this week , as the search giant looks to pre-empt rival bids from Yahoo!, Time Warner and Walt Disney- all rumoured to be mulling bids of their own.
The deal could see Google run ads alongside the videos, which would help YouTube monetise the site which costs an estimated £800,000 each month to host its ever-expanding library of user generated clips.
Google already has its own own video service, Google Video, and the deal could see the two services merge.
Last month, California-based YouTube signed a deal with Warner Music which will allow users to watch thousands of videos by artists such as Madonna and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
In August, Google announced it was providing search and advertising at social networking site MySpace.com, along with a host of other websites owned by News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media arm.
Yahoo! appears to be interested as a way of hedging its bets in case takeover negotiations with social networking site Facebook do not succeed, as it seeks to capitalise more on the explosive growth of user-generated content.
The deal could see Google pay Fox £472m by 2010 as long as web traffic targets are met, but the companies said they could also forge a deeper relationship in the future.
