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In the recent interview, Mr. Schmidt predicted that production by small Web video companies and distribution on YouTube would be the television production model of the future.

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A new television pilot costs $3 million, and video creators can create a lot of YouTube programming for that price, he said. “So what you should do is, instead of building your TV pilot, you should do $3 million worth of other stuff, let the audience pick the best one, and then go to the TV studios and say, ‘We’ve proven it on YouTube, now let’s go spend all that extra money.’”