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Rival forecast to catch YouTube

(Posted on  FT.com - Media  29 days ago)

YouTube is in danger of being upstaged commercially by a smaller upstart backed by News Corporation and NBC Universal as the video-sharing site struggles to make its massive global audience appeal to advertisers (visit source article)
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