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What the…Holy Crap! YouTube Love Goes Silly!
Rumor has it YouTube is in buyout talks with Google. I like it. But for $1.7 BILLION?!?! Yes, billion with a “B”!
Trip Chowdhry, an “analyst” with some Bay Area equity research firm, thinks YouTube has the same brand identity as Google and Coke. Is she smoking crack? If that’s the case then Google would be getting one heckuva deal at $1.7 BILLION. Personally, I think some people need to get out of the bay area more often. Don’t get me wrong, I love YouTube but that’s the craziest claim I have ever heard in my entire life!
The first night of my class at Westminster College I asked how many of my students have heard of YouTube. Thirty percent had heard of YouTube. These are students in a private college - YouTube’s exact demographic. Of the thirty percent, I asked how many watched YouTube videos on a regular basis. The answer?  None. I bet if I asked my students how many of them knew of Google and Coke; I would get a 100% response rate.
What a Trip…
Great idea, Google and Coke, your right, you would get 100 percent, maybe Google and Pepsi also?
Left by Kristy on 10/06/2006Jim Cramer of Mad Money disagrees with you. He thinks Google should pay $3 Billion for YouTube…
http://tinyurl.com/pcl6v
Left by Peter Abilla on 10/07/2006Pete:
I like what Calacanis has to say on the subject:
http://www.calacanis.com/2006/10/06/google-to-buy-youtube-perfect-match/
Left by ctknud on 10/07/2006If Google can get more people to their ads by buying YouTube it is a great investment. Besides, Google is on the cutting-edge and online video streaming is the future of the internet.
Left by Jason Baker on 10/08/2006