{"id":198,"date":"2009-01-16T11:34:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2009-01-16T11:34:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T15:34:58","slug":"google-announces-the-closing-of-its-popular-google-video-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/16\/google-announces-the-closing-of-its-popular-google-video-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Announces The Closing of It&#8217;s Popular Google Video Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deep pocketed Google announced today that they will be closing their <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google Video<\/strong><\/a> service.\u00a0 Users will be unable to upload their video&#8217;s to Google Video within in the next couple months&#8230;however&#8230;existing videos already on the service will remain in place.<\/p>\n<p>This follows identical measures taken by <strong>AOL Video<\/strong> in December 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of AOL, they more or less admitted the action was because they were bleeding money and couldn&#8217;t continue subsidizing the service.\u00a0 Google wasn&#8217;t quite as forthcoming.\u00a0 They simply said that Google Video is redundant with YouTube (which they also happen to own).<\/p>\n<p>But you better believe they are stopping Google Video because it was bleeding money too.\u00a0 In fact, nearly all video sharing sites are.\u00a0 They rely on advertising, but they have difficulty attracting advertisers because the content on these sites is generally so poor.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also <a href=\"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/podcast\/video\/2008\/10\/31\/wvu-10-the-death-of-video-sharing-sites\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>long warned people<\/strong><\/a> about the dangers of relying on video sharing sites to market their businesses.\u00a0 It&#8217;s simple math.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re running a service that is losing money, at some point you have to close the service.\u00a0 And if you&#8217;re relying on these services to drive traffic to your web site, that traffic will disappear along with the services.<\/p>\n<p>I fully expect more popular video sharing sites to die over the coming year&#8230;or at least drastically change the way they operate.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s your warning again.\u00a0 If you are currently spamming video sharing sites in the hopes of generating traffic, your free ride will one day (likely soon) be over.\u00a0 And like nearly everything else on the Internet, it will be the people developing quality video content and building faithful audiences who will survive (and thrive).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep pocketed Google announced today that they will be closing their Google Video service.\u00a0 Users will be unable to upload their video&#8217;s to Google Video within in the next couple months&#8230;however&#8230;existing videos already on the service will remain in place. This follows identical measures taken by AOL Video in December 2008. In the case of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[11,137,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}