Mark Cuban... Why I still think Google is crazy & YouTube thoughts...

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by Thomas Rice

We won't really know if it pays off financially for them for a few years. In the worst case scenario where YouTube never makes money, it would only take 1-2% off Google's value given Google's size ($130 bil market cap vs $1.65 bil acquisition price).

I found an interesting comment on a blog... One person points out that Google had "inside information" on how much YouTube was making, because YouTube was running Google AdSense ads. All Google had to do was look at the AdSense stats for YouTube to find out how much they were making from their user's clicks. So Google's AdSense is a "window" for them to "peer into" the profitability of any business that's running their program...

(The same goes for anyone using Google's advertising tracking tool, Google Analytics http://www.google.com/analytics/ ...)

So - Google probably knows more than any of us do, since it has (and always had) the inside info on YouTube!

I read that comment here (see the 2nd comment by "sivori") - http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/20...ting_goot.html

Cheers,

Dien