Comments on: Sometimes it pays to listen http://www.tomrafteryit.net/sometimes-it-pays-to-listen/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:08:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mark http://www.tomrafteryit.net/sometimes-it-pays-to-listen/#comment-51573 Mark Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:22:32 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/sometimes-it-pays-to-listen/#comment-51573 Well maybe if Comedy Central got a kick back from the advertising revenue generated from all the eyeballs watching their stuff on YouTube they'd be more inclined to leave the content there. I don't recall Jon Stewart signing on to fill Google's coffers for nothing, which is what the situation currently is. This is just another case of Google *must be good* so therefore everyone else *must be bad*. And if anyone in the US wants the Daily Show online they can buy it from the iTMS for a buck ninty nine per episode or $9.99 for 16 episodes, without ads. Well maybe if Comedy Central got a kick back from the advertising revenue generated from all the eyeballs watching their stuff on YouTube they’d be more inclined to leave the content there. I don’t recall Jon Stewart signing on to fill Google’s coffers for nothing, which is what the situation currently is.

This is just another case of Google *must be good* so therefore everyone else *must be bad*. And if anyone in the US wants the Daily Show online they can buy it from the iTMS for a buck ninty nine per episode or $9.99 for 16 episodes, without ads.

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