I briefly met David Dundas, founder of YouAre.tv at last year’s SXSW. His pitch was quality indie video creators need a better distribution channel. Watch his pitch at the January 2007 NY Video 2.0 Meetup for a deeper explanation.
In theory, the quality community sounded great, but obviously a few things didn’t go as planned. With a short blog post today, they announced the site it is up for sale. Their post title “It’s Not You… It’s Us” explained they want the community to continue, but feel another group can extend its growth.
We started YouAreTV as a platform top help Indie content creators get their stuff out there. That’s why it was especially difficult to put the company up for sale today. In short we’ve put the company up for sale because we believe that there is a company that can more aptly sustain and grow the community.
The starting bid is $25,000 and the eBay listing claims they’ve had a $100,000 offer from a major media company just for the name (bet that looks pretty good now). For anyone interested, here are a few traffic metrics from their previous month.
- 19K Uniques (Mostly New Visitors)
- 23k Flash Streams not remote downloads from other sites.
- 56k Page Views