Comments on: If you can’t beat them, buy them

By: nevins manafe

nevins manafe — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:30:25 +0000

i like this comments by Gilbert:
” I see this move as a good sign. I mean, a couple of guys coming with the next big idea and cashing in really nice. At least this types of deals motivate all of us to be creative…. ok I have to go to create a startup or two:) ”
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its a sign for me 2

By: paddy

paddy — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:15:44 +0000

GOOGLE GUYS ARE NO FOOLS TO FORK OUT
1.6 MILLION FOR NOTHING. IMAGINE THE AMOUNT
OF MONEY THEY ARE GOING TO RAKE IN WILL BE
1000 TIMES 1.6 BILLIONS.
THE GUYS WHO SOLD YOU TUBE SHOULD HAVE HELD
ON FOR SOME TIME.
THE AGE OF VIDEO ADS IS GOIN TO BOOM AND BOOM AND BOOM.

By: Kirby Swinemar

Kirby Swinemar — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:11:49 +0000

I agree with Jeanne that YouTube is much faster wrt video uploading, but I haven”t had any problems with google video. I have approx 40 videos on Google and get several hundred views per day from over there.
The remark made above ref Google buying the Social Bookmarking site “delicious” .. well Yahoo owns them, as well as “Flickr”, the photo sharing site, so things could get interesting in the social bookmarking arena.
I use PPC advertising to a small degree and Google has been offering advertisers the ability to create “Video Ads” now for a few months now.
I created 4 ads around my theme on country music artists and received only 65 impressions (the ads were displayed on Adsense sites only 65 times)in the 30 days I had them active, and zero clicks. Video ads are so new that adsense participants likely don’t even know what they are yet? I haven’t personally ran across any myself on any websites.
But I suspect with this new acquisition, video ads will be part of the surfing experience sooner than later.
Kirby Swinemar

By: Ken McCarthy

Ken McCarthy — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:07:04 +0000

Yes, somehow I can’t imagine Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer getting on a plane and making personal visits to their competitors and colleagues after a big purchase like this.
They’d be too busy pounding their chests and crowing about how they’re going to use the deal to drive everyone else into the ground.
(In case you couldn’t tell, I’ve never been a fan or admirer of the way Microsoft does business.)

By: Ori Pas

Ori Pas — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:40:49 +0000

I don’t think the problem is that google bought theme.
I actually think it was the least of the worst. Think what would happen if Microsoft bought theme? or, AOL (god forbid)?
Good for theme, they made their money the good way.

By: Ken McCarthy

Ken McCarthy — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:48:02 +0000

The deals…this week Google signed deals with CBS, Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt also made personal calls on News Corp (Rupert Murdoch), Time Warner, Viacom, CBS and other big content owners.
So it looks like part of this week’s deal included having deals ready to sign with the companies most likely and able to sue.
Impressive…
The Google juggernaut rolls on.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:29:54 +0000

Check out the deals Google and Youtube have done this week. They will go a long way to solving their copyright issues.
In fact, I believe companies are now realising, these videos are going a long way to helping sell their product.
Google could have paid $3 Billion and it would have been a could deal for them.
The companies which lead the way in bringing down Napster, have all signed deals with Google and Youtube. Both companies realise that by sharing the profits, copyright issues have a way of disappearing.

By: Mark Spivey

Mark Spivey — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:05:29 +0000

I agree video marketing is the future for business,along with podcasting I think Google may have some other ideas up their sleeves besides adwords, though we all know that this is their main income source.
While Youtube is free, I would hardly call it professional for businesses to promote their products either with video or adwords – unless they are geared towards teenagers.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:07:05 +0000

You’re hilarious. When has google cared about copyrighted material? Did you forget the “Let’s scan all the books in the world” project?

By: gabriel bear

gabriel bear — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:42:35 +0000

7 years ago i was working on convergence theory at the practical level. google is bringing it one step closer to reality. googl itelf however admits it is not getting thoro brand followthru with its subsidiary services at this time, and will be working to educate the market on the availability of its suite of services. key to doing this is cuasing the market to understand “it’ not just a search engine anymore”–and google just bought itself a couple hundred million $ of viral by making this deal. this blog is an example.
imho, people need to be thinking now about how to approach branding, brand management, brand design for a world that iews media off the net and not th airwaves. cause in about 5 years it will be here.