Should YouTube Charge for Uploading Videos?
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster proposed an interesting suggestion to help YouTube with its finances: He said the Google-owned video-sharing site should charge a “nominal fee” for uploading videos if the content isn’t advertiser-friendly, The New York Times‘ Bits Blog reported.
Munster estimated that YouTube will earn $323 million from advertising in 2009, primarily from large companies such as Verizon Communications, Disney and Microsoft. But he also estimated that the costs of storage and streaming come in at more than its revenue.
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