Monday, January 07, 2008

The (short) History of Youtube



Q1. What is the appeal?
Q2. What is the relevance to marketing?
Q3. What is tne next 'killer application'?

1 comment:

Kim Lajoie said...

Other than the Silicon Valley romanticising ("A story about three friends with an idea")

"Bandwidth costs approaching one million [US dollars] per month, Youtube gained an additional eight million in funding from Sequoia Capital" - this doesn't add up. And it doesn't answer the question of how YouTube pays for their bandwidth.

Some other analysis:

http://willy.boerland.com/myblog/youtube_bandwidth_usage_25_petabytes_per_month

http://blog.forret.com/2006/05/youtube-bandwidth-terabytes-per-day/