Just surfed over to DV Guru's Comparison of ten Video Sharing Sites like YouTube and Google Video. Pretty good comparison of the pros and cons of each, and frankly, I haven't even heard of 6 out of the 10 sites listed.
Anyhow, still trying hard to figure out the revenue model for community-based video-sharing sites. I guess that while its true that most of them found themselves able to quite quickly build up momentum (think viral through use of linked video on blogs and websites), I still cannot figure out how their mainly ad-based revenue model will substain them over the long run due to the heavy bandwidth costs incurred.
For far, I guess only Google Video with its $10 billion warchest and move towards the selling videos through its site has the most well thought out business model. Google Video's downloadable application which allows users to view and save their favorite videos was also a step in the right direction for them.
On the other hand, I'm still kinda wondering what youTube is going to do with its newfound $8 million dollar funding. Guess that will at least that will substain their burn rate for a couple of months till they find their true calling amidst a flurry of anti-piracy problems.
[via : DV Guru ]
(PS: It seems that contrary to popular thought, my rate of blogging is directly proportional to the amount of work I have to do. )
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