Watch the Funny Kittens!

Clearly none of Google's YouTube woes have anything to do with kittens, so I must strenuously object to the libelous title. Kittens rule. If YouTube is to eventually prosper, then it should ban all things canine. Recall that when Nixon was indicted, NONE of the "unindicted co-conspirators" were cats. I rest my case.

Read this article with great interest as we have developed the technology to compress audio/vides significantly with no loss in resolution thus saving storage space. Tried to contact someone from Google and got an arrogant reply back to "stop harrassing me". Wow.

Google could start charging for uploads greater than 5 or 10 mb. Nothing major, just a dollar or so that could be paid through a PayPal account. Or make a lot of high-demand content restricted to subscribers.

I don't know why the don't charge a $1.00 or $2.00 to upload and then come out with a revenue sharing plan for and video that hit s it big with the advertisers. It seems to me that would increase the quality for the uploads while reducing the strain on the servers along with the thousands of duplications of the same event taken by different people. More $$ if necessary. A few dollars won't hurt anyone who has spent a long time putting together a video. Then let their competitors take the junk from people who won't pay. A few bucks to get in and then a chance to win multiple prizes of cash of the content is good.

*** Good for Google for making lots of money ****

Wow, you are apparently utterly incapable of reading a simple article and gleaning even the most basic understanding of the points being made.

You hit the nail exactly on the head. But I'm surprised you didn't mention the Hollywood content that YouTube already has purchased for the Shows page (a new page on the site). I covered the creation of the Shows page, and it's abysmal content, in my blog at GreenScreenCinema.com. Check it out if you get a chance! Thanks.

Good for Google for making lots of money! Daniel Lyons sounds like a crying liberal who wants some of what someone else has. Does he have a problem with capitalism?

Good for Google for making lots of money! YouTube will never go away. Daniel Lyons sounds like a crying liberal who wants some of what someone else has.

I freakin hate Youtube....I much rather watch Video on HuLu. I rarely use youtube but I'm on Hulu everyday.

Mr. Lyons, why such disdain for Google? I can't believe Newsweeks employs you as a technology writer! I've had my fill of sour grapes for the day. I won't be reading your articles anymore.

Sanityprevail, there are several ads on this page alone. Is everybody commenting on this article an idiot?

Philcommander2, nobody said youtube was going to end. Did you even read the article? Yeesh!

I do videos helping parents understand autism (philcommander2) and the thought of losing all the videos and this avenue of helping parents is honestly concerning. Could Youtube really just end? Theres a lot more on Youtube than just people fighting and kittens playing.

Ads? The Internet still has ads on it? I installed pop-up and ad blockers on my browser a long time ago and I haven't seen an ad in eons.

The skeptics are right as far as I'm concerned. The advertising space on youtube is worth less than the adspace on Facebook. Not to mention the almost impossible attempts to monetize Twitter. Lately those sites who feed ads from pulse 360 have demonstrated their marketing prowess by substituting my ip location in their key word substitution and have demonstrated a lame attempt to classify me as to age and sex so that every ad wants to tell me how a Austin mom lost weight or an Austin mom earns $6000 per week working at home, or a Austin Mom looses wrinkles overnight. That doesn't count for targeting in my book.

The emperor has no clothes and finally some one besides me thinks so, thanks Mr. Lyons.