With the recession in full swing, Microsoft execs bit the bullet and took a pay cut. Back in July, Microsoft reported its worst fiscal year since it initially sold stock to the public in 1986. Year-over-year revenue and full-year sales of Microsoft’s Windows software dropped for the first time ever, which most attribute to an [...]
Microsoft Bigwigs Take Pay Cut
October 3rd, 2009YouTube – Money Down the Drain?
April 4th, 2009Is There Hope for the Hemorrhaging Video Site? Google has made a tactical error in letting YouTube go so long unmonetized. The online video sharing site has been bleeding money for years, and the latest results are not looking up. Two and a half years ago, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion. Since then, the [...]
YouTube Monetization Continues as UK Comedians Climb Aboard
January 23rd, 2009YouTube and many artists and production companies have been working together to provide monetization that is fair to all and keep YouTube from being stripped of it’s content. The most recent conquest is the famed Brit comedy team Monty Python. The comedy group recently made some good quality clips of their video archive freely available [...]
Click To Buy – a YouTube Savior?
October 9th, 2008YouTube has long been the power drain on Google, requiring enormous bandwidth to keep it running and facing monetization issues for years. Finally, however, Google seems to be figuring out what to do to give the video machine a chance at being useful. First they figured out that they could sell ads to formerly disgruntled [...]
YouTube: Ads and Captions
August 31st, 2008YouTube is making some decent money from monetizing pirated content. They offer choices, now, for large media companies whose copyrighted content is being shown on the video site; remove it, leave it, or leave it and monetize it. 90 % are going for door number three, and YouTube is splitting the take with them (the [...]













