{"id":361,"date":"2009-07-06T10:54:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2009-07-06T10:54:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T14:54:58","slug":"is-veoh-the-next-video-sharing-site-to-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/is-veoh-the-next-video-sharing-site-to-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Veoh The Next Video Sharing Site To Disappear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For about a year or so I&#8217;ve been warning marketers not to rely exclusively (or heavily) on video sharing sites to get their message out.\u00a0 All of these sites are losing money&#8230;none of them have found a way to become profitable&#8230;and they can&#8217;t keep operating in the red forever.<\/p>\n<p>That means without notice they can just disappear&#8230;taking your traffic with them.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year there have been reports of layoff&#8217;s, reorganization and even outright closings of some of this sites.\u00a0 Now comes news that one of the bigger players, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veoh.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Veoh<\/strong><\/a>, may be the next to fall.\u00a0 This is significant because Veoh is backed by some powerful forces; former Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Kafka<\/strong> of <em>All Things Digital<\/em> broke the story&#8230;and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20090706\/is-veoh-the-next-video-site-to-go\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>read his full article here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For about a year or so I&#8217;ve been warning marketers not to rely exclusively (or heavily) on video sharing sites to get their message out.\u00a0 All of these sites are losing money&#8230;none of them have found a way to become profitable&#8230;and they can&#8217;t keep operating in the red forever. That means without notice they can [&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":[204,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}