Youtube planning India centric site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Youtube is planning an India specific video sharing site by the domain name of youtube.in to be launched next year i.e. 2008 between January and March. Even though currently not more than 1% of youtube’s traffic and videos come from India but even then Youtube finds India a lucrative enough market to launch and Indian specific site.
In this article Shashi Seth, head of monetisation of YouTube.com said “We plan to launch YouTube India anytime between January and March 2008,”. He justified this move by saying that “YouTube.com has over 300,000 videos being uploaded every day,” “Indian content obviously gets lost in this sea of videos. A YouTube.in site will help Indian surfers to get what they want. It will also be an excellent platform for young filmmakers to launch their work. All they have to do is create a channel to drive traffic to their videos.”
And this is not even the beginning of what Youtube plans for India! Youtube along with its parent company Google plan to bring exclusive TV content, trailers and other sports and bollywood related content on the Indian site. Youtube is already one of the top 10 sites visited by Indians and a India centric youtube site backed by all the support from google will only up that ranking.
My heart goes out to those so called ‘Indian Video sharing sites‘ which we extensively covered over here. Sites like …. will now be thinking of what to do next in order to survive assuming the indian youtube emerges by next year! Surely sounds like a death knell for many of these ‘Indian Video sharing’ sites!