Me vs. YOUTUBE!!! can I win? - Page 2

Kato · #16 (**permalink**) 08-30-2009, 10:46 PM

Lookie here...
My philosophy regarding which video site to is 'The Bull and The Field of Cows' techniques.

In other words, instead of rushing down the hill to snag one cow, why not take your time walking down the hill, and snag them all.

ed7up · #17 (**permalink**) 09-10-2009, 10:54 AM

Trouble with YouTube is it's clogged up with so much rubbish, your uncle dancing at some unknown bar for example which has near-zero advertising potential. As a result, the company (owned by Google!) loses a shade under HALF A BILLION USD every year - turning over only around $240 million in advertising revenue. The result is deliberately low server load - and besides, splitting up videos into 10 minute blogs allows for more ad impressions right?

VIMEO is brilliant. I follow SEOmoz regularly and they switched to VIMEO - high quality video which also forces embedders to add text links to the bottom of the video. I embed some of their material on my sight and love the clarity it gives compared to YouTube; take a look at the sample on this page: http://www.how-to-build-a-website.co...echniques.html and notice the text links.

YouTube can be a massive traffic generator though; it is the world's second largest search engine behind the mighty Google and users (on average) surf for 27 minutes per day; take a look at this site: http://www.webvideofordummies.com/

sequencehosting · #18 (**permalink**) 09-10-2009, 11:14 AM

Certainly sounds like you have the right idea. I think it's all about finding the right balance.

Everyone uses Youtube to promote their site in different ways. I give a preview on Youtube and then link to the full skateboarding video in the description and about 80% of my traffic comes from Youtube.

I hope I am allowed to do this just to show what I mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p38BGG4JIg

sequencehosting · #19 (**permalink**) 09-10-2009, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by webman

why are youtube videos unable to go beyond 10 minutes? Other networks like Metacafe can.

Not that I ever want to. I'm just wondering?

Just by guessing I would imagine Youtube get at least 50 times more visitors than Metacafe and maybe all the other smaller sites put together. If they did allow everyone to go over 10 minutes the amount of bandwidth and space needed would be mad. I read somewhere Youtube costs Google $2-5,000,000 /month in bandwidth costs.

By allowing partners to go over 10 minutes it's fine because they already have a huge audience.

Also I could imagine people uploading full DVD's etc which would be a nightmare for Google.

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