On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:54:24AM -0700, John Hughes - VideoMetro, Inc. wrote:
> 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
I think a better first question is, assuming all of those are in your
favor, why would someone use your system instead of one of the others you
mentioned? They've spent mountains of cash on marketing and probably some
on software development as well. What's your differentiator? First
figure out how you're going to beat the folks already doing it, then
decide whether you want to.
Some user-generated content aggregators - Eveo comes to mind - shut
down their portal sites, finding that user acquisition costs were high
and revenue was not; how will you handle or change that?
Cheers,
Troy
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