YouTube's Growing Competition

bart_scriv writes "BusinessWeek looks at YouTube's rapidly growing imitators and questions the site's long-term viability. In addition to the competition, YouTube continues to face problems caused by its reliance on copyrighted material; the site's popularity is service- (rather than emotion-) based, which makes it a ripe target for anyone that might replicate and improve the service. From the article: 'YouTube's own challengers are advancing at a rapid rate. AOL is re-engineering its video site to mirror YouTube's success, and CNN is launching CNN Exchange, which will house user-contributed video features. Then there are sites like Eefoof.com, Panjea.com, Revver and Blip.TV, which share up to 50 percent of ad page revenue with the creator of the videos. Others like Dabble.com (currently in beta) sort through all video hosting sites (like YouTube and its competition) for search content, while specialty video sites like Pornotube concentrate on one point of interest.'"

Dvorak

[Jedi Alec]

No sooner does he endorse it or the end draws near....

sites like Pornotube concentrate on one point...

[deft]

"while specialty video sites like Pornotube concentrate on one point of interest"

Well waking up to a Slashdot story specifically referring to what's in my pants certainly is a new one.

YouTube's ... competition?

[UbuntuDupe]

Who wants to "compete" with YouTube's "business model"?

Damn you, YouTube! I can lose money through a free video service *much* faster than you can! I can have an even sketchier idea of how to recover costs! I can make it easier for people to block ads!

Re:Clones are one thing...

[Anonymous Coward]

but brand recognition is whats a winner here.

Which is why I do all my searches on AltaVista instead of Gooble or whatever it is.

Youtube and the Slashdot effect?

[tsu doh nimh]

Yeah, all the sites are working? Haha. Check out the Youtube homepage: "We're currently putting out some new features, sweeping out the cobwebs and zapping a few gremlins. We'll be back later. In the meantime, please enjoy a layman's explanation of our website..." Gremlins, my ass.

Re:pornotube

[Durrok]

Wow, great place to... see a bunch of guys... naked :\

Re:pornotube

[Aphoric]

...just as long as it's not created by ./ users!

In other news

[192939495969798999]

The instant pornotube and the other adult Youtube clones are posted to Slashdot, Youtube dives to 10 trillionth overall.

Re:Shocking

[Elwood P Dowd]

Pornotube was kindof flakey before /. mentioned it.

I know this via mental telepathy, and by no other means.

Maybe.

[MrCopilot]

Just Maybe Senator Stevens was Right.

YouTube, XTube, PornoTube...

The internet really is a series of tubes.