Comments on: Meanwhile, Yahoo Does A Lot of Video http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/meanwhile_yahoo_does_a_lot_of_video.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meanwhile_yahoo_does_a_lot_of_video Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Wed, 22 May 2013 20:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Randy Hoffman http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/meanwhile_yahoo_does_a_lot_of_video.php#comment-13244 Randy Hoffman Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:04:18 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/meanwhile_yahoo_does_a_lot_of_video.php#comment-13244 <p>Five years from now we will look back a shake our heads at the deals made by some very smart companies as they navigate this changing business landscape. This could be one that CBS television stations grow to regret. The best local portal is still up for grabs in the online world. CBS just helped make Yahoo a more attractive local portal and in turn made their own station's websites less locally relevant. As John accurately points out, it's not difficult to peer into a future where your favorite local news outlet is www.yahoo.com as opposed to KCBS. And by the way, what's the more profitable business model - content creation or aggregation - yep! </p> Five years from now we will look back a shake our heads at the deals made by some very smart companies as they navigate this changing business landscape. This could be one that CBS television stations grow to regret. The best local portal is still up for grabs in the online world. CBS just helped make Yahoo a more attractive local portal and in turn made their own station’s websites less locally relevant. As John accurately points out, it’s not difficult to peer into a future where your favorite local news outlet is http://www.yahoo.com as opposed to KCBS. And by the way, what’s the more profitable business model – content creation or aggregation – yep!

]]> By: dumbfounder http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/meanwhile_yahoo_does_a_lot_of_video.php#comment-13243 dumbfounder Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:26:30 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/meanwhile_yahoo_does_a_lot_of_video.php#comment-13243 <p>Yahoo pushes a lot of vids, but to its own users. Youtube is SPREADING. When is the last time you saw an embedded Yahoo video? It's all about the Youtube in my opinion. </p> <p>Alexa may suck in a lot of ways, but you can't argue with this graph: </p> <p><a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=1y&size=large&compare_sites=&y=r&url=youtube.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=1y&size=large&compare_sites=&y=r&url=youtube.com</a></p> Yahoo pushes a lot of vids, but to its own users. Youtube is SPREADING. When is the last time you saw an embedded Yahoo video? It’s all about the Youtube in my opinion.

Alexa may suck in a lot of ways, but you can’t argue with this graph:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=1y&size=large&compare_sites=&y=r&url=youtube.com

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