http://brontemedia.com/2007/03/02/youtube-revenue/ There are those who experiment and those who follow the formula Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:09:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://brontemedia.com/2007/03/02/youtube-revenue/#comment-15688 Bronte Media » “Oh Shit. There Goes The Planet” Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:46:50 +0000 http://brontemedia.com/2007/03/02/youtube-revenue/#comment-15688 [...] By virtue of Photbucket trying to sell itself we can get another peak into a business whose marketing strategy was built mainly on the distribution of a single uncompensated partner. And the end result is again a pretty good one. Youtube may have rose on the coatails of MySpace but they quickly built that situation into a sustainable one and converted into one of the largest communities on the web. Even though Youtube did $13m in revenue last year, their inventory is fairly valued (in today’s world) at $100-$200m/year with some fairly basic monetization. [...] […] By virtue of Photbucket trying to sell itself we can get another peak into a business whose marketing strategy was built mainly on the distribution of a single uncompensated partner. And the end result is again a pretty good one. Youtube may have rose on the coatails of MySpace but they quickly built that situation into a sustainable one and converted into one of the largest communities on the web. Even though Youtube did $13m in revenue last year, their inventory is fairly valued (in today’s world) at $100-$200m/year with some fairly basic monetization. […]

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