Comments on: YouTube to sell games and music in an effort to boost revenue http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/10/08/youtube-to-sell-games-and-music-in-an-effort-to-boost-revenue/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:54:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Counsel http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/10/08/youtube-to-sell-games-and-music-in-an-effort-to-boost-revenue/comment-page-1/#comment-293515 Counsel Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:46:08 +0000 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/?p=6074#comment-293515 Google...Selling something? Knew it would happen, but I am excited to see how well they do in this market. Google tapped an untapped market with on-line ads. They have done very well, keeping people happy by releasing, at no cost to the end user, many free services and products. If ad revenue goes down, Google is going to want to push those free-service users to use fee-based services and/or to purchase items from Google. Similar to what Yahoo did and received much negative publicity... Funny how there is no "how can Google do this?!" outcry. It was going to happen, and it has. What will be interesting will be seeing how long it takes for Apple to start selling software via iTunes like Steam (both Apple and Steam are copyrighted and/or trademarked). Once iTunes starts selling mac and other personal computer software (perhaps sending the code via e-mail), I'll be excited to see competition in the software-download market. Everyone is scrambling to find "revenue," and Google is no different. Google…Selling something? Knew it would happen, but I am excited to see how well they do in this market.

Google tapped an untapped market with on-line ads. They have done very well, keeping people happy by releasing, at no cost to the end user, many free services and products.

If ad revenue goes down, Google is going to want to push those free-service users to use fee-based services and/or to purchase items from Google.

Similar to what Yahoo did and received much negative publicity… Funny how there is no “how can Google do this?!” outcry.

It was going to happen, and it has. What will be interesting will be seeing how long it takes for Apple to start selling software via iTunes like Steam (both Apple and Steam are copyrighted and/or trademarked).

Once iTunes starts selling mac and other personal computer software (perhaps sending the code via e-mail), I’ll be excited to see competition in the software-download market.

Everyone is scrambling to find “revenue,” and Google is no different.

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]]> By: MadMike http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/10/08/youtube-to-sell-games-and-music-in-an-effort-to-boost-revenue/comment-page-1/#comment-293477 MadMike Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:03:14 +0000 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/?p=6074#comment-293477 Considering the quality of YouTube videos after all the compression and conversion is, well, crap. I am not too excited to see anything they create. Considering the quality of YouTube videos after all the compression and conversion is, well, crap. I am not too excited to see anything they create.

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