February 15, 2009 by James Oliver
In their continuing quest to finally make the massive amounts of money everyone seems to be sure they can, YouTube continues to advance its downloadable videos feature. Selected YouTube partners now have the option to allow downloads, either for a fee via Google checkout, or for free.
The partners chosen to test the free download options are American educational institutions including UC Berkeley, UCTV, Stanford and Duke. On the paid side, the lucky partners who get to make some money out of their affiliation with YouTube, or at least more money than usual, include householdhacker, khanacademy and pogobat.
If this works, it could be a very profitable venture for the number one video sharing site, but haven’t we said that before? However, this could finally be the breakthrough we’ve been waiting for. Some are even talking about YouTube as a competitor to iTunes!
That’s obviously still a way off but with the kind of traffic that YouTube enjoys there really should be a way to turn an honest dollar somewhere along the line… Surely.
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