Comments on: YouTube Does Some More (Modest) Boasting: "Growth Is Definitely Good for Our Bottom Line"

By: YouTube’s Most Popular Clips: Still Mostly Ad-Free [MediaMemo] | UpOff.com

YouTube’s Most Popular Clips: Still Mostly Ad-Free [MediaMemo] | UpOff.com — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:45:19 +0000

[...] – I love ‘em, too! Especially when I can tie them to a news story — in this case, Google’s (GOOG) boasting that big profits are just around the corner at YouTube, once considered to be a bottomless money [...]

By: YouTube’s Most Popular Clips: Still Mostly Ad-Free | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:23:58 +0000

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AMD Adds Phenom, Athlon Chips to Lineup | ipodgroundzero.com — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:13:52 +0000

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By: Tech News » Google spins YouTube into future profit machine

Tech News » Google spins YouTube into future profit machine — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:24:11 +0000

[...] YouTube Does Some More (Modest) Boasting: “Growth Is Definitely Good for Our Bottom Line”… [...]

By: YouTube’s mythbusters: When blogs attack | iSawNEWS.com

YouTube’s mythbusters: When blogs attack | iSawNEWS.com — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:59:04 +0000

[...] Kafka of AllThings Digital calls it ‘modest boasting‘: So really, the big takeaway here is that the Google folks are feeling ever more confident [...]

By: Lenny Pudinskaya

Lenny Pudinskaya — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:44:38 +0000

Kafka wrote: “But it’s really a series of assertions with little data to back up the claims, many of which we’ve heard before.”

So you’re calling Google, or at least the authors a liar? Based on what info that you can assert?

There is altogether too much anti-Google ugliness at All Things D.

By: Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:57:15 +0000

That’s not an accounting trick. You’d need numbers to pull off an accounting trick, and there are no numbers here.

By: Edward Barrera

Edward Barrera — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:56:08 +0000

I was more confused by this:

“In our view, the percentage is far less important than the total number of monetized views.”

Sounds like Google is working on its accounting tricks.

By: terri boothe

terri boothe — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:25:09 +0000

One idea for YouTube content would be Logitech web cams that I’ve seen in the stores. I don’t know how to use the camera outside and I wonder if anyone else does.