How much? It’s IT Blogwatch, in which Google buys YouTube. Not to mention a Halloween supper party with creepy, but 100% tasty and edible courses……

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Google does not block access for Chinese users to Google Video. It does not offer a Chinese version of Google Video (likely since Google would not be able to comply with the censorship requirements). The Chinese government, however, has been known to block access to both YouTube and Google Video, and will likely to continue to do so.

There is tons of coverage on the whole Google buying YouTube thing and I figured everyone would be interested in a quick summary of what various sources are saying on the whole thing. The good, bad and ugly so to……

I’m not sure who first reported the rumors – I got them from TechCrunch. You gotta love the word “unsubstantiated” in the headline. Rumors could be unsubstantiated and true, both at the same time.
Google bought Youtube for a figure pr…

Of course, they will continue to have separate web sites, but the organization within Google will be 1 (smaller than the 2 of them are now) organization.

For the record, Google (like all public companies) is run by the shareholders. That means that no matter how hard the CEO tries to make promises about what he (or she) wants, the Board of Directors will dictate what has to happen. Even if the CEO owns most of the stock, he still has to answer to the BOD – and they answer to the shareholders. (Take a look at what happened to HP/Compaq when they merged.) In most cases, the CEO just goes with the flow – because he’s already rich beyond his wildest dreams, so pushing a rock uphill isn’t worth the effort. The BOD meets once or twice a quarter, so they only look at what the analysts say (usually reading about it on the flight to the meeting), and make decisions based on that.

Google may make YouTube a financial success, but it won’t be because they remained “independent”.

Congrats to Michael Arrington on breaking the rumor and upstaging all of the rest of the media and business press in this matter that became a reality very quickly. Frederick Marckini of iProspect stated that Youtube would be acquired for more than Mys…

Monetize means to make something into currency. YouTube is not being made into currency.

YouTube has won its place in the market very well and Google can leverage this like no other (including News), watchout!

2. These are calls for the big stock holders of Google, not for the media.

3. Investor Relations and Press Release were in sync. The reason for not yet talking about that public very much is to hinder question 1) from happening.

5. Because this is the first company of that kind (it’s already big and there’s a big competitor already available in house).

6. No, because Google Video will be affected by content liabilities, too. And remember Microsoft: Any lawsuits didn’t affect their business, they made enough profits anyway. Also, they were able to close deals with several media corporations already, which is something that will continue, I guess.

8. Both products have a strong brand, neither of them will be killed by Google.

9. Microsoft was too late, and they not yet understand that a good product is more than good technology. YouTube technology can be copied and re-created within several weeks, no problem. But you have to have the community that uses your product. And that’s what YouTube has. Google slowly starts to understand that, too.

News breaks all over the world that Google has finally bought YouTube for 1.6 billion dollars. Well that’s not a bad price to pay for one of the most popular websites in the world, but what are they going to do with YouTube, especially when they alre…

The question for the public is whether google/youtube still allows such heavy user-submitted content. This forms liability issues. However, this is basically circumvented by placing some very basic review forms for google/youtube. The fact that they remove content upon request allows YouTube to keep accepting user content. As long as the content owners of copyrighted material who do not wish for videos to be available via youtube do not put up a legal hurdle, YouTube will operate as a general ad-ran free content viewing site ran off of user submissions, and googleVideo will run as paid for service and still ad-free.

The YouTube acquisition for Google is a smart step for the future. Google has been buying up tons of dark fiber (un-used fiber optics) and their recent building acquisition in New York puts them right on top of the heart of the internet. Not to mention their power house computing centers.

What I’m getting at is that Google is one of the few companies that could possibly monetize and manage YouTube because in the future they will not have to worry about distribution or bandwidth once they put to use all that Dark Fiber.

Also, the google video player is more suited to movies and television shows and allows >10 min clips. This may change, but why mess with a working formula?

Wow it is official. GooTube! Google has done the predictable and bought the biggest video site on the internet YouTube for $1.65 Billion in stock….

10 unanswered questions on YouTube acquisition by Google.