What’s Next for Google Video

Written By Reprise Media | April 27, 2005 | No Comments

What’s Google planning on doing with video? Richard Korman of Silicon Valley Watcher sat down with Google video platform director Jennifer Feikin to talk about the short and long-term possibilities of this medium in an exclusive interview. What you want to know: It started as experiment and folks at Google still think of it that [...]

What’s Google planning on doing with video? Richard Korman of Silicon Valley Watcher sat down with Google video platform director Jennifer Feikin to talk about the short and long-term possibilities of this medium in an exclusive interview.

What you want to know:

  • It started as experiment and folks at Google still think of it that way. It’s all about collecting and reviewing right now.
  • There’s no plan in place to move into the next phase – search, playback and purchase. In the meantime, uploaders can help by coughing up transcripts.
  • Looks like the plan is to allow content owners to charge for their video content. Google gets a cut.
  • Video opens up a wealth of possibilities for search but also a wealth of problems. Who owns content? How do you prove it? Short of having human editors, something which Google is not saying whether they’ll commit to either way. Will Hollywood opt in? How do you deal with DRM? What does this mean for TiVo & Netflix?

    Read the rest here.

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