Cheezhead

I’m at a loss.

By now, the world is more than aware of the current battle royale that is Google/YouTube vs., well, just about everyone else. I won’t rehash the details, but I do have a 200-level bleacher seat and a cold one, ready to enjoy the action.

As with many posts, I try to take the macro and turn it into micro. That is, asking How does a happening on the big stage effect our little stage in the employment sector? In this case, I just can’t think of anything. Here are a few reasons why:

• The House doesn’t care. At the end of the day, the employers own the job content. And most of them could care less about where their jobs end-up, assuming they even know where their jobs are. Media content provider care very much about their content. It’s their bread-and-butter, so there’s an immense desire to protect it.
• Nothing unique to see here. Unlike media properties who have personalities and can’t-get-anywhere-else programming, jobs just don’t command that kind of exclusivity.
• Jobs are no fun. Unlike a mass of people taking video footage and putting it on YouTube, we’ll never see a day when the same masses steal job content from Monster Worldwide and claim it as their own. What fun is that? Monster could easily shut down such an operation.

Maybe I can just blame it on being Friday or wearing a mullet wig, but I just can’t find any good connections between the current fight over video content and the jobs space.