Here’s a quick an interesting development for Canadian marketers: YouTube.ca just launched today.
According to the official press release, the site will feature content targeted towards Canadian visitors. The new Canadian YouTube Blog notes that some of the top YouTube visitors are Canadian, and asks from feedback from Canadian visitors.
The new Canadian specific YouTube site promises to be a very interesting playground, if early interest is any indication. Although the press release announcing YouTube Canada went out at 10am EST today, ING Direct released details about at $10,000 contest specifically for YouTube Canada visitors at 11:05 EST - a scant hour later.
The YouTube Canada site is so new, even it’s parent company Google hasn’t even visited yet:
YouTube already has partnerships or agreements with Canadian content publishers including CBC, the CFL and Sony BMG Canada.
Jonathan Dingman
November 6, 2007
@ 4:35 pm
It’s kind of odd that they would launch an entire site just dedicated to one country. YouTube.com is certainly not dedicated to the US and there’s no us.youtube.com site.
Why Canada? Why not another country? Why not just have a special “Canadian” segment within YouTube.com instead?
Weird to me if you ask.
Chris Stigson
December 30, 2007
@ 3:08 am
I was just wondering the same thing, where is “YouTube Sweden”? Hey, I have to get to the bottom of this madness…
It’s not like YouTube, isn’t “global enough” I mean who has more visitors per day?
2-3 sites.. lol, this project will most likely fail, OR get a lot of media attention, wonder what the idea is..
- Chris