YouTube tries to come up with a business model, music videos with ads inevitable

Posted August 16, 2006 at 11:47 AM by Doug Berger

Section: Web, Downloads, Websites, Online Music/Video

YouTube has been struggling to stay afloat over the past year with their insane bandwidth usage.  They’ve been rumored to pay in the neighborhood of $1,000,000 per day to serve all of the content to their 100 million visitors daily.  Since they’re way beyond standard banner ads being affective, it’s all about striking business relationships.  News.com is reporting that YouTube has been in talks with all of the major record labels including Warner Music Group and EMI.

Regarding the site’s outage yesterday, YT spokeswoman Julie Supan cleared it up by surprisingly saying the following:

“To clarify and ensure accuracy, the site is not down for maintenance,“ she said, “This was an unplanned outage.“

Read [News.com]