Comments on: Totlol Creator Learns the Hard Way He Can’t Build a Business on YouTube

By: jack

jack — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:15:33 +0000

Just wondering if you plan on writing any more posts abou this topic? thanks so much.

By: timekeeper

timekeeper — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:32:42 +0000

Nostalgia? Ha!

That's not the response you get when you talk to Sesame - They've been mandated from the top to get on YouTube to reach their demographic and not the older audience for nostalgic reasons.

Nothing like talking out both sides of your mouth just to make a buck.

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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:05:12 +0000

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By: Anand Srinivasan

Anand Srinivasan — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:10:16 +0000

"Specifically, the ToS prohibits the sale of advertising on sites that simply provide embedded YouTube videos without other content on the same page. "

Isn't there a simple workaround to this? Simply let users comment (unique content) or pull keywords about the video and display related Wikipedia articles or something?

By: Rob Chuah

Rob Chuah — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:53:58 +0000

Does Youtube API TOS prohibit him from charging membership fees ?

By: Paul Marcum

Paul Marcum — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:01:25 +0000

"getting licenses to host kids' content himself."

That's what we've done for KidMango.com, licensing over a thousand hours from over 25 different video producers and sharing revenue with both them and our distribution partners.

By: Neal

Neal — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:56:13 +0000

youtube is no evil.. maybe it was totlol way to make big use of google's bandwith with videos and powerful marketing on youtube

abuse of any website will lead to that but they didnt' broke, did they?

By: uhh

uhh — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:24:11 +0000

Actually YouTube isn't providing any traffic to him as TOTLOL.com is a front-end for/filter of YouTube videos not a producer of them. It's worth highlighting here that since all of the content resides on/streams off of YouTube servers his hosting costs are minimal. There are other sites like Zuitube.com that are doing the same thing.

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:10:19 +0000

@timekeeper - Yes, they say it's for the nostalgic value.

@Adam - YouTube is providing all the content hosting and the world's largest library of videos to draw from. Creating written content seems like a good idea. Another would be getting licenses to host kids' content himself.

By: timekeeper

timekeeper — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:12:25 +0000

“He did note that YouTube explicitly states it is not a service intended for children (aka those under 13)”

So why does Sesame Street have a user page on YouTube (launched July 2008): http://www.youtube.com/user/sesamestreet

For the nostalgic value for the 13+ crowd?

I guess the “Do no evil” mantra is just for Google and not its subsidiaries.

It seems that Google/YouTube find interest in this demographic and may be planning something of their own.