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GooTube - Google is turning YouTube into its own kind of data gold mine

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• ComputerGuru 18y ago
  ...but wasn't the whole point of Google buying YouTube in the first place? I thought we all knew that?
  • jdunck 18y ago
    No, no, the entire media industry is watching to see if it's possible to make money on video online. Obviously, the only value Google could get from YouTube is cold hard cash for ad impression eyeballs.
  • jimbokun 18y ago
    I think the point of the article is "...and it's working." There was a lot of skepticism at the time of acquabout whether youtube would ever provide enough revenue to justify it's purchase price. It appears now that the purchase was justified, and that the strengths of youtube and Google have complemented each other well.
• josefresco 18y ago
  maybe I'm blind but I don't see anything in this article about a "data gold mine" There is data on ad performance, which was interesting but this article is seriously lacking content on the topic. And while they mentioned the ousting of original YT employees there isn't much data there either.