If reports are to be believed, YouTube may be launching a regional site specific to Indian viewers. Because India is one of the most populated countries and one with a good deal of technological advancements among the consumer class, such a launch could help push the Google-owned video trove into reasonable profitability, a goal which the company's chief executive highlighted in a television interview today on CNBC as one of his primary focuses at the moment.
According to Nikhil Pahwa at ContentSutra, multiple sources are reporting that the video site will be launching on May 7th there, but no official word has come out of Google as of yet. If the launch does happen, it is expected to be attended by multiple content partners. (A journey to 'youtube.in' offers naught but the company's favicon and a blank page. We here at Mashable first heard of such plans for an India-specific portal in July 2007.)