youtube sellout?

insight from john aravosis

Something even more interesting

CBS is now a regular publisher on YouTube under username "CBS."

Yes, you see where this is heading

YouTube used to be about you and me

Now it appears that YouTube may be turning into one big corporate publisher

And I strongly suspect that this is Google's plan

Call it "corporate bait-and-switch."

Google buys YouTube

Google has millions of regular readers and publishers to YouTube who are loyal to the service because they think it represents the regular guy

Google quietly switches YouTube's main content - at least half of it - to corporate-published content like what CBS is now doing

Google hopes its users don't notice the shift and keep watching the videos, making Google and the companies involved lots of money

But in the end, YouTube, which started off as an experiment in citizen publishing, ends up as one big corporate community simply out to make a buck

That is of course their right, but I'm curious how many YouTube regulars are going to be happy when, and if, they find out that YouTube has sold out

here's a free million-dollar idea

someone start myTube