{"id":62,"date":"2006-10-20T23:30:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T07:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/archives\/62"},"modified":"2007-11-14T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T22:46:39","slug":"google-buys-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/62\/google-buys-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Buys YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, after weeks of rumours, <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Website - Google\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a> finally purchased <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Website - YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a>.  Just a year-and-a-half after conception, the founders of YouTube sold their company for $1.65 billion in Google stock.  In terms of the real estate industry, why is this news noteworthy?  If you delve deeper in to YouTube&#8217;s website statistics, you will learn that 100 million clips are viewed daily, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded every 24 hours. The site has a staggering 20 million visitors each month.  The Internet audience is demanding video content.  Google bought a company with little or no revenue streams because they realize <strong>video, more than any other content, drives visitors to websites<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, after weeks of rumours, Google finally purchased YouTube. Just a year-and-a-half after conception, the founders of YouTube sold their company for $1.65 billion in Google stock. In terms of the real estate industry, why is this news noteworthy? If you delve deeper in to YouTube&#8217;s website statistics, you will learn that 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}