No inside knowledge here. Just hearing rumblings. A few disconnected things, really. Not sure I want to get into it (since I’m supposed to be offline), but there are a half dozen things I could point to as evidence of, if nothing else, YouTube thinking of selling.
I’ll let this sit for a week, maybe have a better idea then
What concerns me is what I read on John Battelle’s Search Blog recently, about YouTube owning all material submitted to it, music, image, words, etc. and can re-license and redistribute it any way they want, possibly without proper credit or any payment.
As a business video trainer, this is disturbing. Must look into other services for making video player embeds available on corporate blogs for vlogosphere dominance.
The reccent chnages to TOS would seem to be a positioning for acquisition, no ??
Jon: That’s how I read it as well.
Logitech announced a co-marketing agreement with YouTube, the video content website that will makes it easier for people using Logitech QuickCam webcams to upload their videos to the largest video entertainment site on the Internet.