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Okay, I'll say it. When I see "Red" and "Tube" so close together, my mind jumps to the porn site, RedTube. They can't possibly have been ignorant of this
by toxican 11y ago
Okay, I'll say it. When I see "Red" and "Tube" so close together, my mind jumps to the porn site, RedTube. They can't possibly have been ignorant of this
- thieving_magpie 11y agoWho's gonna be the one to bring that up in the branding meeting? "And we're thinking we'll call it Youtube Red" "Uh........... yknow that's... it's... i heard once that... nevermind".
- vinceguidry 11y agoI don't know how many marketers you know, but the ones I know would be perfectly comfortable bringing this up. It's kinda their job to know about this sort of thing.
- zipwitch 11y agoIt won't be a problem - Alphabet will just "make them an offer they can't refuse" and within a year, RedTube will re-direct to Youtube Red. (The offer being, let us buy your domain name for a reasonable price, or we'll sue you out of existence.)
- doingmyting 11y agoIf I go to Redtube and redirects me to youtube, you better know I am still doing my thing to all them videos. All of them haha!
- toxican 11y agolol on what grounds could Google possibly sue RedTube? They don't own the word "tube", which has been a reference to television since the beginning. I don't think you know what you're talking about.
- pen2l 11y agoMatt Cutts' wife used to pass out "porn cookies" if anyone found porn with safe settings on. Google's culture is very permitting, so I don't think it's much of a problem.
- hyperbovine 11y agoStatistically close to half the people in that meeting watch porn on a regular basis... so maybe one of them.
- lkiernan 11y agoWouldn't a Google search of this branding have done the trick?
- acqq 11y agoApparently they're actually "comfortable with it." http://www.thewrap.com/youtube-exec-on-comparisons-to-porn-site-redtube-were-not-too-worried/ http://www.thewrap.com/youtube-exec-on-comparisons-to-porn-s... "In a Q&A session with reporters Wednesday at YouTube Space Los Angeles, company executives were asked if they were concerned that consumers would confuse their new YouTube Red product with RedTube, an online porn platform. “We did a lot of consumer testing, so we were comfortable with it,” Robert Kyncl, YouTube chief business officer, said of the name."
- km3k 11y agoYeah, they may be comfortable with it in consumer testing with people familiar with YouTube, but what about the people who never remember what anything is called and say things like Faceplace for Facebook, or Foxfire or "The Internet" for Firefox? If YouTube Red becomes popular (which I assume is something Google wants), you know these same people will be calling it things like TubeRed or RedTube. Maybe Google is ok with watching the awkwardness that will ensue, since it probably won't cause them any monetary harm.
- toxican 11y agoThen I have to wonder what RedTube thinks about this. Mistakes could result in a lot of extra traffic, but is it worth it? I believe they're owned by the same company that owns 5 or 6 other similar sites, so maybe they won't be too concerned.
- acqq 11y agoThe web was already there once, like whitehouse.com, see the Wikipedia entry: "Part of the controversy about whitehouse.com was that users (especially minors in most cases) wishing to visit the website of the White House (www.whitehouse.gov) could easily go to the adult website instead."
- swagswag 11y agoyeah what the heck. I better get some higher quality streaming for pr0nzerz
- JoshTriplett 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio... In a professional setting, in the context of a marketing/naming discussion, I doubt anyone would have a problem saying "that's too close to the name of a popular porn site". Nobody whose humor has grown past a 12-year-old's will respond to that with "and how exactly do you know that?"; it's the job of the people in that room to know about myriad brands and products that they may or may not use, and the connotations of various names.
- raldi 11y agoThis way of thinking reminds me of when everyone was shocked that Apple would call a product the iPad, dooming it to forever be mocked with feminine-hygiene references.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoMy immediate impression from the name (after I re-read the header and realized this is not about RedTube) - is Google/YouTube entering the adult video streaming market?
- treebeard901 11y agoI'm just waiting on RedTube's new paid service called RedTube You.