YouTube Confessions

Is it wrong that at night, when I'm alone in my apartment, I'm scouring Popurls.com for the top YouTube posts and searching uncontrollably for Maury Povich's show on USA Today article says YouTube reported 2.5 billion videos were watched in June of this year alone and more than 65,000 videos were uploaded to YouTube, accounting for more than 60 percent of all videos watched online. NBC partnership and Yahoo announced it will now store homemade videos on its own site with many features similar to YouTube. I think the best part of YouTube is its viral marketing abilities. For example, NBC captured an old WB pilot episode all because it demonstrated incredible popularity after it was leaked on YouTube. The pilot, Nobody's Watching, was cancelled by WB one year ago, but appeared on YouTube with high download numbers. So now NBC is airing six episodes. And let's not forget NBC's recent deal to post promo clips from Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. But there is still the issue of profit for this online, user-generated video world. I highly doubt it will ever be a user-subscription-based model, after it has been free for so long. But questions remain. Disney only advertised 24 hours. Who will advertise next? Is the partnership with TV networks a step in the right direction? Or, a sign that YouTube is Oneupweb is the only two-time winner of the ClickZ award for "Best Search Engine Engine Marketing Firm".