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• 09 May 2006
• 06:54 pm

YouTube Down - Weblogs Suffer

Every time YouTube is ‘out of service’ loads of weblogs are left with ‘empty white boxes’ on their pages which used to show the videos hosted by YouTube. Since YouTube seems to be ‘out of service’ more and more frequently this problem is growing.

Why Weblogs Suffer
YouTube is the website where I find most of the videos that I show on Fresh Creation. But when YouTube goes down, Fresh Creation is suffering because visitors don’t get what they came for. This damages the image that people had of Fresh Creation. There’s a big chance that those people won’t return to this weblog because of that. This means less clicks on the Google Ads and less money earned at the end of the day.

What YouTube Should Do
Since YouTube is used by weblogs all over the world, their ‘out of service’ problem causes gigantic losses in income and in image-building by those weblogs. The least YouTube could do is show a message in those ‘empty white boxes’ on the weblogs saying that YouTube is temporarily out of service. This makes clear to the visitors of weblogs that the weblog itself is not having problems but YouTube is. This will make visitors understand the situation better and make them come back for more later on and, so, reduce the amount of money lost by weblogs when YouTube is down.

Naturally, the best thing for YouTube to do is not to be out of service at all. But let’s take things step by step. ;-)

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