YouTube's Potential Suitors?
Forget about an IPO, let's just get YouTube sold right now. Fortunately, Russell Shaw has come up with a list of potential suitors. It includes (drumroll, please!): Adobe, Google, Sony, Time-Warner, News Corp. and Yahoo. I'm don't think Adobe or Sony should be on the list, while I'd be surprised if Time-Warner made such a bold move. As for Google, it's not one to make big, flashy deals. So that leaves Yahoo and Rupert Murdoch. If I was a betting man, I wouldn't be surprised for Rupert called YouTube CEO Chad Hurley for a chat soon. Before any kind of deal - or IPO - is consummated, YouTube will have to tackle is the sticky issue of copyright infringement given more content owners are asking for their content to be removed as YouTube gets more popular.
Update: The Guardian has a story that YouTube overtook MySpace as the most popular “new generation. According to Alexa, YouTube has 3.9% of global Internet visits each day compared with 3.35% for
MySpace.
August 1st, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Wow. Google, News Corp, Yahoo!
What, no Microsoft? No AOL?
Come up with that list himself, huh?
Next thing you know, people will predict that the NY Yankees will sign high priced players.