White Label YouTube?

Word is that Google is preparing to announce a new “white label” video hosting service that would let Web publishers use YouTube’s video infrastructure to run their own video sites. How would this work? Don’t know, but here’s a guess: Instead of going to YouTube to upload videos, people would be able to upload videos directly to Google’s servers through a partner’s site. The publisher wouldn’t lose their user’s attention — or any pageviews — and would be able to sell ads around the videos. YouTube would host the videos, and probably serve ads on the videos.