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

  
  

  Now the best value tube of the Internet!

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  Cheapskate, 28 Jul 2006 @ 12:50pm

  
  

  Media windfall

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

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  Anonymous Coward, 28 Jul 2006 @ 2:49pm

  
  

  Re: Media windfall

  on what account?

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  DittoBox, 30 Jul 2006 @ 10:40pm

  
  

  Re: Media windfall

  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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  Anonymous Coward, 28 Jul 2006 @ 1:22pm

  
  

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

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  fsckr, 28 Jul 2006 @ 1:31pm

  
  

  Based on??

  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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  tehdirtaddict, 28 Jul 2006 @ 1:37pm

  
  

  The internet is a series of tubes

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

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  You people are all wrong here..., 28 Jul 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, 28 Jul 2006 @ 3:24pm

  
  

  I like beer

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  Anonymous Coward, 28 Jul 2006 @ 5:13pm

  
  

  Sex Kills!

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  Sean, 28 Jul 2006 @ 7:04pm

  
  

  Wow

  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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  thecyrusvirus, 29 Jul 2006 @ 7:21am

  
  

  Re: Wow

  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, 29 Jul 2006 @ 5:19pm

  
  

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

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

  
  

  The longer they fly solo

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

  
  

  Youtube is worth $500 billion !!!!

  Easily !
  
  Everyone loves crappy low res macromedia flash movies !

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