Looking at Video on the Web with Ken McCarthy
Video, filmmaking, marketing and the web
Mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow…
Here’s the first video that was uploaded to YouTube. This is one of the company’s three founders Jawed Karim, currently a grad student at Stanford.
Yes, this is how a $1.65 billion company got started.
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Does it make sense for Google to spend $1.65 billion to buy YouTube?
Sure it does – as long as they’ve figured out how to solve THE PROBLEM…
Tracking the Internet video world – which practically no one was tracking just a year ago – has become a full time business for some.
Here are some of the more interesting numbers people have dug up recently…