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YouTube Thinks It's Worth $1.5 Billion
Ed Kohler

If 90% of the 100,000 videos views per day on YouTube violate copyright laws, does that mean YouTube can only honestly serve advertising against the remaining 10,000 viewed? How much advertising do you need to sell against those10,000 video views to justify a $1.5 billion valuation? That's a $500 million increase in estimated valuation since July.

YOUTUBE'S GOT A FAT IDEA OF ITSELF By SAM GUSTIN - New York Post Online Edition: Business

"Internet upstart YouTube, the bane-du-jour of copyright holders everywhere, won't sell itself for anything less than $1.5 billion, The Post has learned.

But that number far exceeds the price top media execs appear willing to pay for a company many believe lacks a sustainable business model."
The video diaries, online community, and video response features are YouTube are certainly powerful features, and are likely a fast growing subset of YouTube's overall traffic, as I've mentioned before. But what's that worth without the copyrighted content?

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1. Posted by: web hosting company on September 22, 2006 10:39 AM:

"No company whose business was based on copyright infringement ever successfully went public," said Michael Arrington, editor of TechCrunch. If the copyrighted content is removed from youtube then I think its worth won't be even $1billion.



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