My points are not saying that VC's have no interest in videoblogging. They do.
Investors are tapping into it.
There is potentially a huge market space for content creators and services that cater to them.
It takes deeper understandings and analysis than the simpler viral video services, but we all know vlogging is legit and nothing can stop the momentum. It is so on, getting bigger every day. Not a fad.
sull
On 11/8/05, Brad Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, but VCs also realize that compelling content makes for more
advertising stickiness.. that's the problem, though, trying to balance
reaching out to the people making the really cool content with making
the site accessable, simple and easy enough for Mom to upload her
cooking examples or FratGuy uploading the "viral" videos.
(Footnote: I'm biased, I built and maintain a competitor to YouTube --
vSocial -- so take that into consideration with anything I say on this
matter)
Michael Sullivan wrote:
> oh, and of course, let's not forget that the Audience is larger than
> the pool of Content Creators.
> VC's know this. These are the people that they are interested in,
> afterall.... so advertisers can 'reach' them as the attention moves
> from TV to Internet Video... not to mention the millions of workers
> who sit in front of computers all day.
>
> business is business.
>
> sull
>
> On 11/8/05, *Michael Sullivan* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
> Well, let's also try not to over-emphasize "this space".
> It is not the responsibility of every new start-up to FULLY adhere
> to the demands and wishes of the blogging community. There are
> many, if not more, regular people who want to share video but
> have little interest in blogging... or at least the geekery of
> blogging.
>
> Yes, YOUTube embedded themselves here to promote their service.
> Every video service will try to communicate to this groups 2000
> members or whatever it is now. Some will be Right On like blip.tv
> < http://blip.tv>, others will be Way Off and still others will
> hover in the middle.
>
> The fact that YOUTube received this funding has more to do with
> their design and features and the fact that we are in the midst of
> a huge Internet Video BOOM.... where videoblogging is one part of
> this boom.... for me, it's the part that truly matters the most,
> but that does not lessen the impact of the general ease of
> distributing/hosting vid clips.
>
> Let's also keep in mind, as Peter touched on, that video can often
> receive mass attention if it becomes viral and contagious.
> Thousands or even millions of people will participate in spreading
> worthy video clips and try to create video clips that can garner
> such awesome attention on the Internet.
> How long have people been forwarding video clip links via email?
> Years! It's a cultural thing.
> People want other people to see and hear stuff that they find
> ..... interesting or funny or whatever. Now, this has evolved a
> bit and in addition to forwarding video links via email, there are
> web services to help do that in addition to hosting, transcoding
> etcetera etcetera.
>
> My interest is in videoblogging, obviously. But this does not
> make me blind to the bigger picture of what is going on with
> Digital Video + Internet + Broadband + Cheap Cameras.
>
> sull
>
>
> On 11/8/05, *petertheman* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>
>> Can someone explain YouTube to me? I don't get what people like
>> about this service. They have crappy transcoding, they brand
> your
>> videos with their logo, they try to lock you into their
> website, you
>> can't syndicate your videos via rss, and they still haven't
> changed
>> their crazy terms of use where you basically give your work
> away to
>> them.
>>
>> Can someone who uses this service explain what they like
> about it?
>> Do you not care about these points that I bring up? Why not use
>> another free alternative like Ourmedia or Blip?
>>
>> I don't get it.
>
> It's free hosting. That's pretty much it: *any* free video
> hosting
> service will attract users (coz it's free! It's videos!) Their
> businessmodel isn't bloggers, it's "funny viral" videos. I ranted
> about this here:
> http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2005/11/06/2905/
> The fact that they got funded just points to the fact that
> most VC's
> really don't get this space.
>
> Blip is different, their business model is supoorting bloggers
> with
> video. It'll take longer but they'll be more successful.
>
> Peter
>
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