Wednesday, October 25, 2006

YouTube : make fun & make money


YouTube is today the most important website for share videos, little movies or extract of tv-show. It is also a one of ten websites the most popular with 30 millions visitors each month. That's why the biggest browser: Google has bought it for 1.65 billions dollars. Create in February 2005 by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Steven Chen, this is now a company who employ 65 persons.

The first reason to grow up of this website: the urge about the net users to share their life as we do with blog. But also a "normal" person can feed his personal performance: music, dance, etc..
There is a very good example with the singer Kamini. A French person, who make a sing and a video clip in two day, upload it in Youtube and six month later: Kamini sign for Universal music.



The key of the success of Youtube is its simplicity. It is very easy to show on the entire world his video: Erwan and me grow up today for the glory with our "vie pratique facile". Everybody can use it, it's why I think it run so well. In fact to use it :

  • Create a movie
  • Create an account on Youtube : only two clicks and it's free
  • Upload the movie : only one clicks
  • It's done

With this story about Youtube we can imagine that in the future, for the industry about music and movie, the new talents will be discover on this website. And it is really interesting for the company because the new artists success already on the web. So there are less risk to invest with him.
But in the other hand, with the development of this site we can download illegal content as movies, video clip, which are not free. It does can become a new "napster" where all is free, but all is not legally.

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