At 11:54 am -0700 6/4/01, John Hughes - VideoMetro, Inc wrote:
>Some time ago I asked the list for some feed back on our "Video Community in
>a Box" software that we are developing. I got very little response, so I am
>asking again.
>
>My company Videometro's core strategy is to build a software app that we
>license to web sites desirous of offering their members the ability to
>upload, promote, publish, share their personally created digital video. Our
>revenue is to be derived from licensing fees, integrating fees, and hosting
>and serving fees. Our competitors include, Popcast, Iclips, Videoshare,
>maybe Earthnoise etc, no doubt people from those companies are on this list,
>their feedback would be appreciated too.
>
>My questions. Is this a viable model, is there sufficient interest from
>consumers to use these sort of services, if so how much will web sites be
>willing to pay, and how are they going to pass this charge on to their
>users. The closest analogy I can think of are the photo-sharing sites, which
>so far seemed to have all sorts of problems with creating a viable revenue
>stream.
>
>Really interested in the list opinion. help
Another competitor is atstream.
You're also up against Apple's iTools/iDisk, which is free for the
first 20MB of storage, and is built into all Macs, but viewable from
Macs and PCs.
There is definitely consumer interest in this, but I'm not sure how
far it extends to paying hosting fees.
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