i dont see how the launch of the Indian site is going to change anything , and this is something which i had mentioned on your last write up about this as well.

There are enough ‘indians’s already surfing, uploading and downloading on you tube, how does an Indian specific site help out…

Yeah, I agree with puchoo’s take. It shouldn’t change the status quo, especially since the status quo is the current Indian video consumer heading to YouTube anyway.

Just to clarify—I meant the wannabes are even more doomed.

My 2 cents, country specific site from Google means serving request from different server farm, localized UI etc..

chetan - if that’s the case, then their servers will effectively come under India jurisdiction. that’s not necessarily a good thing for them

Well as they say, it would be to target content producers, TV shows as well as amateur artists who want to gain exposure ...ultimately its all ad dollars...monetization…

Nikil,

In addition to to the YouTube clones you mentioned, there are thousands of India specific sites using youtube API, including ours.
(http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html)
When used the older API, we had an avg of 15,000 page views a day.
We now use the new api , which has an option to exclude restricted content as flagged by the community, our traffic has reduced to 500 page views a day.
Google/YouTube has to be very careful about including the restricted contents, when they launch youtube.co.in & .in

Hi Ravi,
just saw moviesindia. noticed that the link to smashits.com in the footer is ww.smashits.com, not http://www.smashits.com . maybe you’d like to correct that.

so, from your experience, it’s the restricted content that is driving the traffic YouTube is partnering with content providers, so lets see how that goes.

Hi Ravi Venkatraman !
If obscene language - sorry cannot give example - is to be excluded, page views would reduce to small fraction. You Tube should be requested to rip out the offending comments and not the videos.

“so, from your experience, it’s the restricted content that is driving the traffic”
Exercising their liberty, so many people have trashed most videos with obscene offensinve comments. If that makes video itself (even religious) restricted, then hardly any videos are left open. I do not feel that explicit videos are driving traffic.

This morning I found Indian YouTube on. Also Feature Videos listed all indians. That is a huge encouragement to performers. Thanks and congratulations to You Tube management.

Apart from in.youtube.com and youtube.in stated above youtube.co.in is also parked there. The webpage appeared early morning. I was delited to find only indian videos listed as Feature Videos. Swati Kothari, Gautam, Shailesh, Sakeena - all together organised a grand show. Media queries were also answered comprehensively by Shailesh-Sakeena duo. What impressed me is the young age. All those on huge Google/YouTube posts can be called young guys and gals with no offence. Manager - International : I thought she is a college student.
Congratulations to YouTube managent. I was acknowledged as first person to send felicitation SMS.

Youtube has already been in use extensively by indian users....................

This launch has surprised these diehadrd fans........  sothe launch amy help catch the eye of those still unaware.......................... more ‘dhuan ‘ and light effects realy..................

“Youtube has already been in use extensively by indian users”

YouTube continues to be same at India site too. Only orietation is different.
All Feature Videos listed have Indian content - At main site, hardly any Feature Video is Indian
If you search videos and channels, mainly Indian content videos/channels are listed.
The users can use all features of their existing accounts, even when logged into Indian site. Except more palatable content, no change would be perceptible.