Is YouTube Doomed?

[anasporn]

YouTube's operating expenses seem interestingly high ... I have to wonder if it includes staff to monitor for inappropriate material and copyright violations? The porn tubes we bitch about the most don't have that particular expense.

[whitey]

Originally Posted by anasporn

YouTube's operating expenses seem interestingly high ... I have to wonder if it includes staff to monitor for inappropriate material and copyright violations? The porn tubes we bitch about the most don't have that particular expense.

That is a good point, but I would suspect that most of their costs are bandwidth and servers. It would be interesting to see the details.

In general, I agree with Cleo. As the porn tubes proliferate, monetization will deteriorate, and I don't see the business model surviving.

I know many people will say that everyone said the same thing about tgp's. But, tgp's came onto the scene in a period of rapidly declining bandwidth costs. Bandwidth costs cannot repeat that rate of decline without going to free.