[...] in 2008 with dominant traffic and leadership, shouldn’t we all be really concerned? Check out this brief article on how the head of monetization at YouTube just stepped [...]

[...] Shashi Seth is heading to Cooliris, not Facebook, where several Google execs have landed recently. YouTube revenues have been in the spotlight lately because of remarks by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. [...]

[...] lost another exec. This time, YouTube’s head of monetization, Shashi Seth, is leaving the company for start-up Cooliris, claiming, "Google got a little big for [...]

[...] departure was reported earlier Tuesday by Om Malik, who said Seth now is chief revenue officer of Cooliris. That Kleiner-Perkins-funded start-up is [...]

[...] departure was reported earlier Tuesday by Om Malik, who said Seth now is chief revenue officer of Cooliris. That Kleiner-Perkins-funded start-up is [...]

[...] With all the activity elsewhere surrounding the monetization of full-length content, and the recent departure of its head of monetization, one wonders whether YouTube should start taking long format, [...]

[...] With all the activity on the web surrounding the monetization of full-length content, and the recent departure of its head of monetization, one wonders whether YouTube should start taking long format, [...]

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[...] to GigaOm sources, YouTube only made a measly $80 million in 2007. That’s just gross revenues and one can only [...]

[...] fact that they actually have a head of monetization is ridiculous . That title is such bad [...]

[...] Google has been struggling to make money from the incredibly popular video site. He told GigaOM, which first broke the news of Seth’s departure, that the search giant has become “a little big” for [...]

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[...] GigaOm: YouTube’s Head of Monetization Quits, Joins Cooliris [...]

[...] Om reports: [...]

[...] With all the activity on the web surrounding the monetization of full-length content, and the recent departure of its head of monetization, one wonders whether YouTube should start taking long format, [...]

[...] Om Malik notes YouTube exec Sashi Seth is now Cooliris chief revenue officer. [...]

[...] this week YouTube’s Head of Monetization quit the company to work at a smaller company that presumable might be easier to monetize. Since Google purchased [...]

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[...] will fill the void left by Shashi Seth, who left the company in June to join startup [...]

[...] (formerly known as PicLens) recently hired Shashi Seth, formerly chief of monetization at YouTube, as its chief revenue officer. Last week, he shared some interesting facts about the company. Among [...]

I have worked with Shashi and think that he is a rock star! The Product Managers who worked for him are all very sad that he left, and I personally know that many other folks who worked with him are very sad to see him go.

Is this “$80 million in 2007″ pure profit, or the total income? And i also guess they will make more money in 2008, after all Google,who happens to own YouTube, determines how much a site should get from Adsense,right?

I heard he had a falling out with that skateboarding Bulldog. He is the real rockstar, and could not work with this guy.

I don’t get it. Youtube could be making billions of dollars right now. It should be bigger then AdSense for text the day they switch on the overlay advertising option for all Youtube producers, not only the very large (more than 1 million views a month) producers having text based ads on the right side of the html page.

I also don’t understand why Youtube doesn’t use voice-recognition technology to generate transcripts automatically as well as translate that to provide searchable subtitles in all languages.

They’ve been talking about $15 per thousand views for overlay advertising (Revver style) popping up at the bottom 1/5th of the video. This should work for embedded videos as well.

Youtube should let all content providers even small independent ones make those up to $15 per 1000 views for choosing to activate the overlay ads. This would improve the quality of the content put on Youtube enormously. This would instantly convince all TV show producers as well to put their full length episodes on Youtube instead of Hulu or any alternatives.

I think they have a responsibillity to start the true online TV and media revolution. Once independent freelance artists and reporters can start to make a living publishing on Youtube, this will immediately change the whole TV industry, this will also influence elections for the better.

Doing a quick calculation, based on the current 4 billion views per month, Google and the Youtube content providers could be making 2 billion dollars per year just on Youtube activity if they activated that overlay advertising option now. (only Youtube content providers who activate it would display it on their videos).

And since the quality of the content would skyrocket the day putting quality videos on Youtube makes money, the view count could also increase even further to tens of billions of views per month.

Any info on adoption rate of youtube and hulu ?

I guess youtube is more popular in emerging countries compared to hulu which is more popular in the usa

And Hulu has a great future coz I just love the quality of videos on Hulu .. Would they go the subscription way ?

Apparently Shashi is living this line from careerists: it is better to *have worked for* a big company than to work for a big company.

word is that he was booted cause he did not deliver. most of the views on YouTube are of User-gen-content, which is of unknown rating and ownership. so can’t naively mix pre-rolls, overlays or banners with those.

@charbax-for the above reason, you will find that youtube only puts overlays or banners on what they call promoted videos i.e licensed content. but those videos are boring and seldom viewed.

Hi!

It might be that Seth is want a little company but earn big bucks. Still, i oppose to Seth Decision. He should have let YouTube pay him more. I think youtube could afford that. If he should have bought a little time to increase the offer, he would have a earned more now.