Pay Per View on Youtube.

It’s Coming. My prediction is that it’s coming in the next 12 months.

That’s my read on the recent change to widescreen support. They are getting users ready for the most popular formats for movies. Why? Because they are going to sell movies on a pay per view basis through deals with the studios. Then they can catalog every TV show ever released and sell them for 50 cents to $1 per episode. That sounds like a very Google thing to do – I wouldn’t be surprised if they are already cataloging everything in anticipation for such a release.

They could even add a way to make Pay per subscription channels on youtube; splitting the profits with the premium content providers or striking deals where certain shows are available only on GooTube.

Finally, Google will have a reason to police copyrighted videos; when they have their fingers in the pie.

Google properties, primarily via YouTube, accounted for 44 percent of the 11.4 billion videos viewed in May. (the other 56 percent must have been from Porn Tube Sites NSFW )

They have the audience, now their going to monitize it. Think itunes . . . only bigger.

12 months. Pay Per View on Youtube. You heard it here first. Just like you read about the Google Voting here a month before anywhere else.