Michael Learmonth posted an article last week that outlines the amount of money that has been poured into online video companies and platforms for the last several years:
2005: $1.764 billion
2006: $2.117 billion
2007: $2.009 billion
2008: $453 million
- data from DowJones VentureSource
Just back in March, we posted that investors had already put more than $200 million towards online video in the first quarter of this year.
When you total up those investments along with various acquisitions (Youtube, Groupe