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Barry Diller: YouTube's Days of Dominance Numbered

In a keynote address at Digital Hollywood's Media Summit today in New York, the InterActiveCorp chief predicted that the the Google-owned property's current dominence in user-generated video would be short-lived. "Those tools are going to be everywhere," Broadcasting&Cable quotes Diller as saying "It's not going to be one place to go."

According to an article in CNet, Diller recently signaled his readiness to venture into online video, saying that IAC "would make movies ranging in length from 30 minutes to two hours." In today's speech, B&C reports that Diller sided with Viacom in its recent demand that YouTube remove 100,000 copyrighted clips from the site.

What’s happened is that media companies have said, 'We're not gonna let you get so strong in distribution,'" he said, likening it to HBO's dominance in acquiring movies for cable decades ago. "It's smart for Viacom, who said, 'Let me be really clear -- you’re not gonna take stuff that I made, then massage it and control it for other people.'"

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Wrong Barry

Posted by Anonymous User at 08:05AM February 08, 2007

you're dreaming Diller. It's too late to get on the new media distribution network created by YouTube and Google Video. And, if Viacom goes through with its demands that YouTube remove its content (uploaded by fans of the content by the way) then there will be no Viacom in a few short years!!

You're over-simplifying it.

Posted by Anonymous User at 09:07PM February 08, 2007

Responding to anonymous above: It's hardly too late to get into it, we're still in the earliest days of viral video and there is a whole lot of room for competition. Sites like LiveVideo are poised to snatch the crown from YouTube and will likely do so due to the poor quality of service and bug-ridden code on YouTube. Google may be wishing they had waited a little bit longer for the dust to settle before investing so heavily in a site that was never written well to begin with.

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Barry Diller: YouTube's Days of Dominance Numbered

Wrong Barry

You're over-simplifying it.

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