What Could YouTube Be Worth?

An anonymous reader writes "C|Net has a story about the possible cost of YouTube. Sony just paid $65 Million for small-time videosharing outfit 'Grouper'. That site has around 1% of the videosharing market. The article asks, at that price, what might YouTube's 43% be worth?" From the article: "Entertainment analysts have predicted in recent weeks that sites with large followings would command a high price. The Sony deal proved them right. But while the Grouper deal helped establish a benchmark, there is still plenty of confusion about the fair value of online video companies. This is because the typical metrics for measuring a company appear to have gone out the window--just like they did during the bubble years of the late 1990s."

Done and

[b0r1s]

done! [vobbo.com]

Re:Way to make money ...

[Red Alastor]

You mean just like xtube is doing ?

http://www.xtube.com/ [xtube.com]

Re:Way to make money ...

[fury683]

http://www.pornotube.com/ [pornotube.com]

Youtube may be worth the hardware they run on...

[crazyjeremy]

If Youtube doesn't get some more VC soon to pay their estimated $1mil/month bandwidth costs, they may be worth nothing more than 600 or so servers. http://blog.forret.com/2006/05/youtube-bandwidth-t erabytes-per-day/ [forret.com] Keep in mind that article was written in May... Bubble 2.0 can change a lot in 3 months.

The word "monetize" gives me the willies...

[untorqued]

but it's a major difference between grouper and YouTube. The folks who created grouper built DRM into their schemes, creating a ready-to-use widget for some big media company to scoop up and plug into their (flawed) strategy. YouTube, not so much. Lotsa eyeballs, but so far just another iteration of
1. Build a ____ sharing site.
2. ???
3. Profit!