Mark Cuban says that he’ll “take hulu over YouTube anyday” but I think that comparing these sites now is akin to comparing apples with oranges… or rather, a flea market with a boutique shop on Rodeo Drive. Don’t get me wrong, more often than not, the flea market might actually have what users are looking for… but the producers whose products are on display probably like the confines of the boutique shop better. Ultimately, who wins in the end? I’m not sure it’s an either or scenario. Sure, broadly speaking - like Facebook vs. MySpace - these sites compete… but fay after day, the services are actually diverging.
I wrote more on this in Quantity vs. Quality.
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June 17th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
[…] Karbasfrooshan of WatchMojo has a point when he says that to some extent YouTube and Hulu are apples and oranges. In other words, they are kicking different asses, so to speak. Terry Heaton makes a similiar point […]