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Exclusive: Metacafe to be sold for USD 200 million
Eli Shimoni
Published: 07.12.06, 18:02
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1. Nothing close to YouTube
Spinner ,   World   (12.08.06)
If it was "considered a direct competitor of YouTube, which was sold to Google for USD 1.65 billion." Don't you think it could / should have been sold for more $$$$$$$$. It's about 1/8 .... or 12.5% of the price Google paid for You Tube. It tried and did a good job since it was based in Silicon Valley. Did you stop to think "Metacafe's site uses unique ranking system (VideoRank) that allows users to rank each video, prevents videos from being put up more than once, and blocks low quality videos." It's kinda like Israel it self....I would say Israeli's but I don't want to offend the Arabs. :D Just kidding....kinda!!! There is some truth to that statement. Mazal Tov ....Mabrook, Congrats to the guys who founded the company...enjoy the cash!!!
2. comparison stats for youtube and metacafe
redmike ,   tel aviv & london   (12.08.06)
youtube #5 traffic reach for one week 70,150 metacafe #148 traffic reach for one week 4,405
3. seo
seolid.com ,   Mauritius   (12.09.06)
I started as a freelancer in 2003 and did SEO for one of Herzog website's for $250. oucchh. never thought this young guitar player would gone so far. Congrats guys.
4. Metacafe
Phil ,   los angeles,ca   (12.09.06)
I've read on some message boards that an email company named enterto.com, is in the bidding for them. It would make great sense for an email company to be in that business. Hotmail should make a bid, in my opinion.
5. Metacafe promises the world to you but gives you crap!!!
carlrispettoso.com ,   Norton, MA   (08.26.07)
Did you actually get money from metacafe or a bullshit promise? Metacafe promises the world to you but gives you crap!!! When your video goes real good they call it a duplicate, even though you filmed it yourself. Whats even better is they NEVER, NEVER answer your e-mail other then to say your account is terminated. Time for a class action lawsuit...
6. Metacafe is a Scam
Joe mcblows ,   Wisconsin USA   (11.05.07)
all you need to do is read thru the forums over there and you will see LOTS of MAD people. I will point out the most disturbing things they do: Duplicates: Somebody who is a good promoter can sit and watch the new videos uploaded and steal them and promote them as theyre own, it doesnt matter who uploaded it first anymore, all they are concerned about is which person gets 20k hits on the video FIRST (who can they pull the most advertising THROUGH) yet they claim to respect copyrights! They have a forum support staff of alledgedly 3 people, 2 have nearly identical names and those "persons" are rarely there, they may come in and evade the real questions from 3-4 hours a day, one claims to work on its own time at home. I find it the strangest? thing that after you read them and sort of become to know them - you would almost swear that the "support staff" are the same people as the "highest paid producers"! , what helps substantiate this suspicion is when people donot accept the runaround and dont get an answer these same people (a group of them) come in and scramble the thread with off topic posts to try to get people to forget what the topic is about in the first place. You will see NUMEROUS "I dont think my answer has been answered yet so I ask again!" posts either in a new thread or the existing thread which will die and leave first section of the help forum page. I may be wrong about all of this! (And there is a lot more I could provide here) but why dont you check out the forums.metacafe.com section and check it out for yourself!
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