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Here’s an intriguing rumor: YouTube may start offering other web sites the ability to use their service and infrastructure for video uploading. According to Dan Frommer at SAI, an announcement may come next week.
[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]Essentially, this is the business that VideoEgg just got out of, when they announced that they would no longer be powering video uploading for third-party sites (including one of mine!) and instead focus on their more profitable video advertising business. This makes a lot of sense for VideoEgg; maintaining infrastructure and bandwidth to power video is incredibly expensive.
On the other hand, as part of Google, YouTube has access to the best infrastructure in the world. By moving in on the market VideoEgg has left behind and powering video upload for others, they’ll further expand the amount of content on YouTube (assuming videos are published both on the publisher site and on YouTube), and the inventory available for serving their new AdSense for Video product.