Big Media YouTube killer killed
I pasted an article from Mashable last week about the alliance of Fox, Viacom, NBC Universal and perhaps CBS working on a rival to YouTube. Now apparently the plan is in danger of failure before it even launched….
Mashable reports that…
…[the differing agendas of the parties] probably lead to conflict. Fox, for instance, wants to hit back at YouTube before they steal visitors and traffic from MySpace. But MySpace competes with Viacom’s MTV Networks - something that was bound to lead to problems.
… this group would surely lag behind YouTube in terms of agility and innovation. What’s more, CBS’ involvement has always been in question.
… users would see this as a corporate behemoth going up against a popular, innovative startup and its young founders. YouTube users got angry when Paris Hilton appeared on the site, complaining that YouTube had become too corporate - these core users are hardly likely to switch to a site which exists solely to extract a bigger cut of the ad revenue for the media companies.
OA is here on Mashable