20 months after starting in Hurley’s gargage YouTube.com is selling for 1.65 billion. I didn’t come across YouTube.com until earlier this year. I was doing a search for some underground fight that I had heard about while watching a UFC pay per view event. I immediately got on my computer to see what the hype was all about and got to watch a clip of a couple street fighters hammering each other in a semi-controlled environment, the local MMA training center.
When I saw the clip I immediately thought to myself that this site was going to kill it. After I saw YouTube.com is when Steven and I began talking about integrating relevant video clips into our clients content to further enhance the relevancy of their site for keywords.
YouTooble is going to turn into an advertising powerhouse. In august YouTube’s worldwide audience was 72.1 million up from 2.8 million a year earlier, according to a ComScore Media Metrix.
AOL News writes up a pretty good article talking about the acquisition if you are interested in reading more about it. Or… you can do one better and get the scoop from none other than Chad and Steve on YouTube.com.
