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<title>Speculations about the potential value of YouTube after take-over by Sony</title>
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<![CDATA[<p>YouTube is known as a company that struggled with entrepreneurs-vision and a reliable 'business plan', but the take-over by Grouper through Sony has opened the eyes about the potential value of YouTube. Sony paid for competitor Grouper that at present time not 1% of the market services, gladly 65 million dollars, while YouTube is much bigger. With this, the company may have determined a guideline of what such a video-sharing-site could be worth, according to analysts. Analysts are not surprised, when an interested person might offer a billion dollar for YouTube. However, if the site effectively is worth such an amount, is not likely.  </p>

<p>The big question that economists these days are asking their selves is if it is possible to produce a profitable site based on hosting 'user submitted video's'. The amounts, that for a site as Grouper were paid, are more based on the numbers of users that can be reached and less on the potential yields of the site itself.  So happens that News Corp paid 580 million dollars to obtain MySpace.com, although the social-networking-site at that moment had 12 million visitors per month. At the time of the take-over there was criticism about the amount that was paid, but this month Google announced to pay 900 million dollars the coming four years to put search and advertising-services on MySpace. YouTube has approximately 16 million visitors per month.  </p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FE-Commerce%2FSpeculations-about-the-potential-value-of-YouTube-after-takeover-by-Sony.26995"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FE-Commerce%2FSpeculations-about-the-potential-value-of-YouTube-after-takeover-by-Sony.26995" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:52:47 PST</pubDate></item>
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