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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2006/10/11/myspace-panics-talks-with-google-may-block-youtube/

  • Josh · 3 years ago
    Can Facebook Video be that far away?
  • Brian Breslin · 3 years ago
    what about cnet? could they still afford to buy facebook?
  • sophie · 3 years ago
    could myspace buy all the other sites
  • Pete Cashmore · 3 years ago
    Brian,

    I don't think billion dollar buys are Cnet's style - they'll probably buy some smaller players in the social space.
  • Ted Shelton · 3 years ago
    MySpace will quickly find out that what is important, if they want to keep their business intact, is what their CUSTOMERS want, not what their business development people want. Take YouTube away from MySpace users and you will have a revolt. Probably a quiet one -- the kind in which everyone simply migrates to another country. Or space, in this case. I mean, what are the switching costs really?
  • WormInBuffet · 3 years ago
    my solution: myspace tells google, "sure, we'll let myspace members link to youtube, but for every link, you have to pay us X cents. Call it a referral charge. If you want myspace traffic, you pay, if not, we'll pull the plug and nobody wins."
  • Pete Cashmore · 3 years ago
    WormInBuffet,

    Exactly. They could even just insert a post-roll still image ad and share the revenue with MySpace.
  • Sick2MyStomach · 3 years ago
    Meanwhile, people, in our own country, nevermind ther world, are dying of hunger. Amazing society.
  • Jawad Shuaib · 3 years ago
    Google is playing this smart. Google could possibly, in the future, earn ad revenues from both YouTube and MySpace videos. MySpace is just blabbering empty threats. There was a heated protest, from MySpace members, against MySpace's decision the last time they banned YouTube. They won't make the same mistake twice, if they do (which I hope they do), they will cripple.