Sam Gustin from the New York Post does another story with speculations of YouTube’s worth.
Techcrunch sips the YouTube $1.5 billion kool aid.
I just feel like I keep needing to air this. YouTube Rant… Then again. I’ve already lost the YouTube “goes bust” pool.
“Rabid user base” the article reads. I’ll vouch for that.
While I too am a YouTube skeptic, I really don’t think their financial backers (Sequoia Capital) is going to let YouTube go bust. This is their pride and joy right now. They have very deep pockets (they backed/cached out on Google) to keep it afloat, even completely subsidizing usage even if no significant revenues come along.
Barring any catastrophic lawsuits, YouTube will likely get bought at some point, as it’s too strong of a brand name right now to let fade away. But the selling price may perhaps at a fraction of what the current rumored valuation is.
We’ll see. It’s all very interesting, tho’.