Now Diller disses YouTube
Cory Bergman February 7th, 2007
First Viacom pulled its clips, then NBCU CEO Jeff Zucker had some harsh words, and now InterActiveCorp. CEO Barry Diller is dissing YouTube. “It’s smart for Viacom,” Diller said. “What’s happened is that media companies have said, ‘We’re not gonna let you get so strong in distribution.’” He emphasized that YouTube’s dominance won’t last for long. “Those tools are going to be everywhere,” he said. “It’s not going to be one place to go.” Maybe it’s just me, but media companies should think twice before jumping on the anti-YouTube bandwagon. I suspect that once YouTube gets its filtering technology up and running as promised, many of these media companies will come around and do a deal.
5 Comments Add your own
1. thedetroitchannel | February 7th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
“those tools are going to be everywhere”.
takes one to know one.
2. Steve | February 8th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Yeah, that Google’s not going to last. Those search tools will be everywhere.
3. JMT | February 8th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Yes–those tools already ARE everywhere. Anyone can create a video-sharing site incredibly easily using Brightcove, Revver, EggNetwork or countless others…or by paying for hosting and bandwidth and keeping all the ad revenue.
What I find perplexing is that each network has not yet created its own YouTube completer to stream all content. Why must they collaborate on a single site?
What we will see, I am convinced, is an emergence of countless niche YouTubes with better-defined parameters.
Steve, Google is Google because of its patented algorithm and unrivaled computing system. That’s starkly different from YouTube’s sole value proposition–the fact that it is popular because it was early.
4. Steve | February 8th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
JMT,
You don’t think the algorithm kings at Google aren’t working on ways to better sort through YouTube’s content?
5. Ralph Riccardi | February 8th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Doesn’t IAC/Diller have a huge investment in Brightcove?
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