Im very interested in any viable revenue models. Ive been interested in this stuff for about 11 months, but I havent seen any real signs of people making money directly from their videoblogs yet. Various types of advertising related schemes have been mentioned, but Ive yet to find anything that enables me to really see what the potential is there, what the interest from advertisers is, what most peoples audience stats are like etc.
The PSP idea is interesting. I got a PSP a few weeks ago as they are now out in the UK (but in short supply). Theres certainly plenty of pain-in-the-ass technical issues that make it less than likely that most people will offer their videoblogs in psp format without help from an external provider offering this service. Filename issues are a pain. h264 available from v2 psp firmware onwards complicates the issue, and theres a lack of psp h264 encoders. Failure of Sony to use totally standard mp4 fileformat, some limitations on res that look deliberate, other limitations that look like badly programmed firmware/reuse of code from elsewhere, these things are annoying. Im not sure Id pay to get psp versions of videoblogs. Id jsut convert them myself. I might pay if they were PSP H264 versions encoded from high-res source files, rather than reencoded from footage that is already highly compressed. Id like to talk more sometime about various PSP issues, and what sorts of people have them and use them to watch video. I believe its currently a pretty specific market, theres a demand for downloadable video content but Ive got a hunch most people are interested in music videos, films, tv, in otherwords commercial media that they are already familiar with. Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "petertheman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to start an intelligent conversation about money. Right now, > I am moving Mefeedia to a dedicated server. That costs some money. And > more imnportantly, I am spending a lot of time on it. So I'm thinking > about ways to perhaps turn it from a hobby into a business. > > The same issues arise for blip.tv, ant and other businesses, so feel > free to add to this conversation guys. > > I think if we can have a conversation here, then perhaps the vloggers > can steer the future into a path that they like. So that'd be cool. > > So here's 1 idea I am playing with. Let's say Mefeedia can get your > vlog accessible on the PSP, and through the PSP users paying a fee or > something we make some $$, and give you a % of that, maybe half. Only > if you opt-in of course. That way you get more viewers, and make some > $$ of it, and Mefeedia makes some $ too for making the deals and the > software to make this possible.. You would still have you videoblog > wherever you want, nothing would change, all you need to do is opt in > at mefeedia to allow this. > > Would that make sense? Good? Evil? This is just one crazy idea, I'm > just trying to see what people think about things like this.. > > Cheers, > Peter > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
