Comments on: Warner Pulls Videos From YouTube http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/12/22/warner-pulls-videos-from-youtube/ Welcome to Kings of A&R, the #1 music industry site in the world where fresh new faces get discovered Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:25:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Daniel Hollister http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/12/22/warner-pulls-videos-from-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-226201 Daniel Hollister Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:31:07 +0000 http://www.kingsofar.com/?p=2679#comment-226201 Music videos were never supposed to be cash cows on their own, they were always supposed to encourage people to go buy the music. If they a) have millions of eyeballs on their videos who are now potential album customers, and b) are not LOSING money producing the music videos, then I'd say they're actually doing rather well with it! Music videos were never supposed to be cash cows on their own, they were always supposed to encourage people to go buy the music. If they a) have millions of eyeballs on their videos who are now potential album customers, and b) are not LOSING money producing the music videos, then I’d say they’re actually doing rather well with it!

]]> By: Jon Cole http://www.kingsofar.com/2008/12/22/warner-pulls-videos-from-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-225417 Jon Cole Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:55:18 +0000 http://www.kingsofar.com/?p=2679#comment-225417 Do they have any idea how much money Google is losing on Youtube? They're probably making out better than anyone on the site & they're asking for more money. The fact of the matter is that "digital" is still incredibly young & no one's done it right yet, save for the iPod. And the folks who should be helping have been fighting it tooth & nail every step of the way. The problem here is that these are gigantic corporations who need a lot to survive... it took television years upon years to become what it was by the early 80's, which wouldn't have happened if the people in control were publicly traded companies with demands for quarterly profits. That's a pretty elementary point. Declaring that "digital isn't the holy grail that everyone thought" translate loosely to "digital isn't the life raft our lazy asses hoped it would be, you've actually got to put effort into developing new ways to monetize a new platform. Fuck that!" It doesn't help that no one in charge can tell a megabyte from the hole in their ass. This "rape & pillage" strategy is going to get them absolutely no where. Do they have any idea how much money Google is losing on Youtube? They’re probably making out better than anyone on the site & they’re asking for more money.

The fact of the matter is that “digital” is still incredibly young & no one’s done it right yet, save for the iPod. And the folks who should be helping have been fighting it tooth & nail every step of the way. The problem here is that these are gigantic corporations who need a lot to survive… it took television years upon years to become what it was by the early 80’s, which wouldn’t have happened if the people in control were publicly traded companies with demands for quarterly profits. That’s a pretty elementary point. Declaring that “digital isn’t the holy grail that everyone thought” translate loosely to “digital isn’t the life raft our lazy asses hoped it would be, you’ve actually got to put effort into developing new ways to monetize a new platform. Fuck that!” It doesn’t help that no one in charge can tell a megabyte from the hole in their ass.

This “rape & pillage” strategy is going to get them absolutely no where.

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