YouTube Founder Compares Online Video To Nascent TV Market
TECH CRUNCH -- Oct 16 -- YouTube Cofounder Chad Hurley spoke at the
MIPCOM Conference in Cannes, France yesterday. In the talk Hurley
compares the
current state of online video to the nascent years of television. Key
soundbites from the speech:
- YouTube wants to partner with content owners to help them "gain unprecedented reach and scope to touch new audiences"
- "The days of the centralized distribution hub are ending"
- Around 10 billion videos are viewed monthly online in the U.S. alone
- On YouTube 13 hours of content are uploaded every minute
- In France over 120m hours of video content is watched per
month while over 3m mobile phone subscribers use their phone to
view a video
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Mark Brooks: I've been in the USA since 1998 and never had cable TV. Nowadays I use iTunes for movies, YouTube for fun videos, Audible for books, Rhapsody/Sonos for music and BlackMarketFunk.com is my latest favorite online radio.
