Tech News

Online Video: Where’s The Money?

Published

16 years ago

on

Here is the stark reality of online video: nobody is making much money and the enthusiastic projections for online video advertising going from $500 million in 2008 to more than $5 billion in five years will undoubtedly be pared back in the coming weeks as analysts revisit their numbers. (Those numbers are from August—eMarketer).
The writing is already on the wall. YouTube is resorting to selling off video search results to the sexiest bidder and just today announced that it is extending overlay ads in YouTube Partner videos to embedded videos on other sites (previously these would only show up on YouTube itself). It is pulling out all the stops to try to get those revenues flowing. Meanwhile, smaller video startups such as Veoh and Revsion3 have already cut back on staff and shows in order to survive. More

Related posts:

  1. YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money
  2. 184 Million U.S. Internet Users Watched Online Video Content in October
  3. So tired of being video quarantined by these US-based video sites
  4. Reasons People Fail At Making Money Online
Related Topics:
1 Comment

Trending

Exit mobile version