Google and YouTube
The two companies we have decided to research and discuss are Google and YouTube. We would like to look into the recent merger they had and what caused these two companies to come to this decision. YouTube is a website that enables users to upload videos of places they have been, things they have done, tutorials and etc. YouTube has greatly grown since 2005 and now has millions of videos uploaded each day of various things. Google is a popular search engine that is commonly used to access information from websites all over the world.
Before YouTube was bought out by Google it was suffering from financial struggles. The company was a victim of its own success as consumer demands for their service would allow people to upload videos to YouTube which continued to add capacity (Kafka, 2010). Consequently, the company could not turn a profit. In fact, consumer demand for YouTube remains strong today as there are hundreds of hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute and there are now hundreds of YouTube channels that can be subscribed to (Youtube, n.d.). Google, o...
In the year of 2005, the companies eventually found a way to make it easier for the companies to combine without having any major issues or problems. Unfortunately, around the year of 20010 the merging com...
The purpose of this paper is to attempt to recompile information about the merger of two corporations; one of many taking places i...
If only my local library could hold the vast quantity of information that my hand held smart phone does. Carr insinuates that Google (and the internet) is making us stupid. I say they are making us lazy. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr informatively states that with the advancement of technology, Google search engine, and the internet we are become more distracted—with all the different forms of flash media, the amount of hyper-links after hyper-link after hyper-links, and clickable adds-- in turn we are doing less critical reading by way of the internet as opposed to a printed book. Being able to glance over several articles in hour’s verses days looking through books; being able to jump from link to link in order to get the information you need, never looking at the same page twice has decrease out deep thinking and reading skills. Now days, all forms of reading, e.g. newspaper, magazine, etc. are small amount of reading to get the main idea of what’s going on and if you would like more information you will have to go to another page to do so. In the end, C...
Google (GOOG) executives said the deal would help transform their company into a global media powerhouse and provide new audiences for the targeted advertising that's the lifeblood of Google earnings. Executives plan to keep the company as a standalone service, while continuing to nurture Google's existing video service. "Video is a great medium for advertising and from that point of view we are really excited about YouTube," Google co-founder and chief technology officer Sergey Brin said on a conference call announcing the Oct. 9 deal. "It is hard for me to imagine a better fit for a company."
Experts and analysts had mixed opinion about the merger in 1998. Though the companies sounded positive with their synergies at the time of merge, the cross cultural working and at...
INTRODUCTION The Google company has engaged the controlling location and position in its industry since the launch due to its unique product which is a result of its unparalleled working location. Google has moved out on to achieve the largest share of online search engines as it affords its users with a product that is difficult to find even though there are a lot of challenges. By analyzing and examining the internal and external environment of the company, it is obvious that Google company is running an efficient machine, giving attention to the most of its customers and it ensures that it offers a quick and reliable product to its customers. Origination structure at Google :
On December 14, 2000, the Federal Trade Commission approved the planned merger of AOL and Time Warner after both companies pledged to “protect consumer choice” both now and in the future. The AOL Time Warner merger was approved by the Federal Communications Commission on January 11, 2001, and is the biggest merger in corporate history, then estimated at a total market value of $350 billion. The merger created a ‘powerhouse’ of new and traditional media. AOL Time Warner has led the union of the media, entertainment, communications and Internet industries. Throughout the years the face of media and entertainment industries has changed drastically as a result of increased technology. The popularity of newspapers gave way to other forms of media and entertainment such as magazines, television, cable, music, and most recently the Internet.
2009 was a negative period for the United States economy. A big recession hit the country, and the founders of Google were trying to make a plan in order to make to limit the damage caused by an economic decline. Brin and Page the two creators of the giant Google were shocked form the situation that was occurring. Their company was feeling the effect of the economic downturn. Google’s stock price dropped 51 percent. The two entrepreneurs were trying to figure out a way to keep the company from drowning. Google main problem was how to maintain the culture that made the company successful in the previous two years. Some consequences that the company had to face was eliminating products that
One of the main weaknesses of Google is the high dependence on advertisement as its primary source of revenue. The advertising segment accounted for 96% and 97% of the total revenue during years 2009 and 2010. The concentration of revenue from one segment could adversely affect the profitability of the company therefore would suggest diversifying its business strategy. Google should embark on online video services and even though it has the google chrome stick, it still do not match up with rival gadgets like the Roku and the others. Google could follow the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime in order to have another source of income generation. Google could team up with major internet service providers like Time warner Cable whereby users and customers can easily and quickly search the internet through their remote control straight from the televisions. This is however dependent on the number of people that have smart televisions but in this technological age, such equipment’s are no
Google and Apple. You know, the companies that teenagers adore, adults love, and children enjoy. Google is your best friend for homework, and their phone operating system, Android, has a plethora of apps, not to mention numerous OEM's. Apple is the company that creates high end, easy to learn products. They make you pay a premium for their products ($2,000 for a MacBook Pro, everyone!). Apple is one of the few companies that doesn't have to do anything to be cool, they just are cool. Lots of people think of Apple as the cool one, while Google is considered your best friend for homework. What about Microsoft?
Strength: Google is the leading company in search engine having more than 65 % of the market shares, making it extremely difficult for the competition to imitate or come close. Its capacity to engender user traffic produces a massive amount of information through the number of hits it gets, estimate per month of 100 billion, which provides information on consumers’ shopping habits, and it’s utilize to improve the tools used by users, provide what consumers need, and attract more users. In addition, it attracts recognize brands which brings the biggest revenue to the company, more that 90%, due to the popularity Google has. Google is also getting stronger with the introduction of Android as well as other mobile technologies that will help in the present and future increase of revenue from other venues. Moreover, its acquisition abilities, with a cash in excess estimate at 64 billion in 2015, gives Google the opportunity to buy more companies and increase its power and dominant in the market share as well as give them the advantage of continue
The two companies that created these search engines have billions of dollars and numerous other resources at their disposal available for the research, the development and the innovation of their products or services. But even if you have all the funds in the world at your fingertips, if you have a bad brand image in the consumers eyes your brand will have extreme difficulty inserting itself in the market. So how does the public perceive these brands?
Google continues to grow and innovate. Google focuses on the user and all else will follow. Since the beginning, they have focused on providing the best user experience possible, and take great care to ensure that they will ultimately serve their customers(Google.com n.d.). In relation to market development and product development the core values “Its best to do one thing really, really well (Google.com n.d.),” fits in with these strategies. “You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer (Google.com n.d.),” describes Goggle’s innovation to mobile platforms. “The need for information crosses all borders (Google.com n.d.).” Google company has grown and has offices in more then 60 countries, maintaining more then 180 internet domains, and serve more then half of their results to people outside of the United States, and this relates to concentrated growth strategy. “Great just isn’t good enough(Google.com n.d.).” Google continues to strive to reach for better ways of doing things, through innovation and integration, continue to improve things in unexpected ways (Google.com n.d.).
A search engine was built in January 1996, as a research project by Larry Page, who was soon joined by Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California. This search engine was named “BackRub,” and it was the beginning of a new era. The name of this website was changed afterward to what we know now as “Google.” I have been studying the business case of Google in one of my MIS classes and using the information I gained from that course, I am able to talk about Google. Since my audience is the instructor and my classmates, Google helps you find information that you need for your daily life in college. I want my audience to know by the end of my speech about Google //what is the history of Google, /what makes it special, //and lessons to learn from the experience of Google’s founders.
Even though many companies usually work hard to implement effective search engine optimization (SEO) strategies, they usually consider video marketing and video SEO as a secondary venture. As a result, most businesses either ignore or give very little marketing resources to the internet’s second biggest search engine, YouTube. With the upsurge in video consumption across all devices, however, it is important and prudent that all companies make video content and marketing an integral