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   Yet another Anonymous Coward, Jul 28th, 2006 @ 11:44am

   
   

   Now the best value tube of the Internet!

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   Media windfall

   

   Cheapskate, Jul 28th, 2006 @ 12:50pm

   
   

   I'd be willing to hype them for a lot less than that...say $150 million

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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 28th, 2006 @ 1:22pm

   
   

   Please change this to the "One born every minute" department . . .

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   Based on??

   

   fsckr, Jul 28th, 2006 @ 1:31pm

   
   

   I'm not sure I get it, what is their valuation based on?
   
   Their millions of users?? Well I have thousands of users on my site. Can I claim its value as being in the millions? Probably not. So what I want to know is: why the elevated valuations?

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   The internet is a series of tubes

   

   tehdirtaddict, Jul 28th, 2006 @ 1:37pm

   
   

   if 1 is worth $600 million, how much are worth therest :D

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   Re: Media windfall

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 28th, 2006 @ 2:49pm

   
   

   on what account?

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   You people are all wrong here..., Jul 28th, 2006 @ 2:53pm

   
   

   They are worth 2 Billion. The future potential of youtube is the sky.
   
   Get a life and learn to recognize a bargain when you see one!

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   dude, Jul 28th, 2006 @ 3:24pm

   
   

   I like beer

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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 28th, 2006 @ 5:13pm

   
   

   Sex Kills!

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    Wow

    

    Sean, Jul 28th, 2006 @ 7:04pm

    
    

    I'd love to be that guy. Though I can see how they valuated how it's worth 600 million. With how many users there are you could basically put some ads up there and make them pay millions of dollars just to put them on.
    
    That's my two cents.

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    Re: Wow

    

    thecyrusvirus, Jul 29th, 2006 @ 7:21am

    
    

    Two cents is about what i'd pay for an ad on YouTube. Lots and lots of their video content is streamed and played through other sites and links in blogs so a large proportion of youtube bandwidth isnt even from site visitors.
    
    They have no real target demographic or niche market so ads there will have a minute click-through rate and be to all intents and purposes pointless.
    
    Anyone willing to pay large sums for ads on YouTube would have to be head shot

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    Lord Gauron, Jul 29th, 2006 @ 5:19pm

    
    

    They could have ads in their video streams. Before the "real content".

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    The longer they fly solo

    

    Fire Isiah NOW and save us, Jul 30th, 2006 @ 3:32pm

    
    

    ...the more money they will burn. The larger their viewer base, the more money they will burn. There is no economy of scale here. If the big media houses don't buy youtube out (but set up their own video sites)...then youtube is SOL. How many more years can the VCs fund them? 1 million dollar burnrate a month is what I heard. Let this sucka fly solo for another year...then we'll see it crash.

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    Re: Media windfall

    

    DittoBox, Jul 30th, 2006 @ 10:40pm

    
    

    Screw that! I'd take 10 million! (gotta save some for a McLaren or Koenigsegg, or something more modest like an Aston Martin...)

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    Youtube is worth $500 billion !!!!

    

    eric martin, Jul 31st, 2006 @ 2:08pm

    
    

    Easily !
    
    Everyone loves crappy low res macromedia flash movies !

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