Edwin - 11:40 pm on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0)

I can't post links here, but uTube actually went down several times (inconveniencing customers and forcing them to issue a public apology) at the time Google announced it was acquiring YouTube because millions of people suddenly hit the site having (presumably) been told about the Google acquisition by somebody else and tried to look at YouTube/uTube.

Google

"Universal Tube & Rollform" billion

to read all about it.

Looking at uTube's site, I'm guessing that without YouTube in the picture it would be a very quiet b2b site, perhaps serving a few thousands or tens of thousands of very highly targeted visitors a month. Now they're having to suffer a traffic onslaught perhaps hundreds of times larger, potentially without ANY overlap. After all, how many pipe industry insiders use YouTube regularly enough to try and type it in?

[edited by: Edwin at 11:42 pm (utc) on Nov. 2, 2006]