Youtube video download site, does it worth?

Hello everyone,

I am thinking to start a youtube videos download site like youtubex.com, I want to ask you expert guys that will this site give me some $$? Should I start this website or not.

Thanks in advance.

 

Well, the market is quite saturated and as you may already know, Youtube was running at a massive financial loss each month and if not for angel funding and the subsequent buyout by Google, they probably be running out of funds soon. Now Google is facing tons of potential legal headache with big media production companies banging at their doors to remove hundreds of thousands of video clips or face the court room. At the moment, Google seems to be fighting fire with their acquisition.

Well, if you do not have big and deep pockets, it is best to avoid running such website.

 

No no, I am not considering to start a video website like youtube, I am talking about a website that will give you download link of a video from youtube like youtubex.com does.

 

theres not THAT many youtube downloader sites out there and not many people know about them, so i'd start one if you want. it could bring some nice revenue if you promote it enough and use adsense

 

I'm thinking of starting one too... But instead I provide the crazy videos

 

Would u place $$ on each download like 2$ per download?, i dont think many people will be interested, coz there are free softwares that can download videos for free from youtube, yes u can earn thru ads only, and u will pay the heavy hosting!

A difficult equation to solve.....

 

Well, i will say that there is lots of websites like
this around. How do you make money out of this ?

 

yeah there are lots of websites like this....infact i think i only know about 10% of the videosharing sites online...its like too many to know all!

 

Nopes I will use some CPC like adsense on website for revenue, and as for hosting, it don't demand much expensive hosting.

 

The only problems would be that their is already a really good firefox extension that does this for free, so you might be fighting an uphill battle. You would have to find something unique that you could offer them.

 

Any ideas Avarian, about that unique thing? What it should be in your opinion?

 

Its not worth it...youtube owns the market, you will loose money, you will get sued for copyrighted material and your bandwidth will cost more then anything you own.

 

I really don't know what you could really do to make it unique. You might be able to bootstrap it onto a blog or a video blog.

I also forgot that one of the places that formed youtube ripping software was being sued for piracy, so keep that in mind.

 

I think I'll have to change my mind.

 

Personally I use a FireFox extension to download my YouTube videos. (Or any videos for that matter). It's quicker, easier, and it only takes a click

I doubt you'd get bigger then YouTubeX, as I see it everywhere. You can try thou.

 

Why do webmasters automatically assume that surfers are as knowledgeable as they are themselves?

Here's a thought: FireFox has currently around 10% marketshare. Most of that 10% are professionals who use Internet as their workplace, pretty much. In other words, not his target market. And if that wasn't enough, how many of the 10% who use FireFox do you think are even aware of the plugin you mentioned? I didn't know about it until you brought it up and even if I had, it had been of zero use to me as I rarely visit YouTube.

 

Well, I guess that that is true. Firefox doesn't have as much of the market share, and a lot of people don't know how to rip videos off firefox.

Positive reinforcement-
This would probably be a decent enough website. I'm really not sure how much bandwidth it would ultimately require, but if you used a popup or some decent text ads to video blog sites, you might be able to turn a profit. A myspace media blitz would work pretty well (maybe).

Negative-
PCs running on windows can't play the ripped videos. Youtube stores them in a .flv format that is incompatible with windows media player. You have to download and install a special .flv player or try to find a good converter. I think I use Riva (or Riveria). A lot of casual internet surfers would be intimidated by this.

You could get around these problems by providing a really detailed walkthrough. You could make your site really unique by setting up an automatic converter with your site. That's really all that I can think of that would make this work.

I'm just a freelancer, not a webmaster, so I'm not really sure about what bandwidth would be like for this type of site.

 

Yes I know about a Linux library for video conversion, its very powerful, but expenses will be high if I implemented it. I am just considering to make a simple download site.