Monday, December 11, 2006

Does Metacafe Really Worth $300M?

The rumors around a possible Metacafe acquisition continue to swirl around silicon valley, with Yahoo being considered the most likely acquiror, at a $300 millionish acquisition price. Another potential acquiror is a rumored industry consortium looking to buy its way into the space. We’ve gotten confirmation from a number of potential acquirors that the company hired Lehman Brothers to shop them around, and were asking for $200-$300 million.

But those discussions may have stalled due to the recent release of November Comscore traffic numbers. The number of monthly unique visitors to Metacafe continues to decline...

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$800,000 for VideoCodeZone.com

A number of social networking services are up for sale at the moment. Two in particular - VideoCodeZone and Mojungle, are MySpace add-ons that have been covered extensively on Mashable. VideoCodeZone, according to Mashable Labs, was the number three video site for MySpace users in September. How much is that worth? According to the founders, they’re receiving 200 million monthly pageviews and make $47,000 per month. We think 200M page views for this small site is a number hugely exaggerated.

We also think that after the youtube.com's purchase, lots of small video sites are trying to exit the market, simply ASAP.

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