Ok, I actually have the same question. I ran into some old friends in Chicago at a prominent investment research company and found myself giving my an impromptu presentation on just what all this new media stuff is about. I tried to tone down my enthusiasm, but I knew I'd just sold them on video blogging and podcasting. (It was that damn pretty itunes interface with all it's CNN and Wallstreet Journal podcasts that did it.) While this is not a bad thing by any mean I have to get out a proposal out this week.
I've illustrated 3 different plans for them and I pretty much have all the numbers. But what's really hard for me to grasp is the bandwidth and numbers. We're talking 3-6 minute videos 5 days a week, or at the very least 2 videos a week just to start with. There subscribership would be very high as they're quite prominent. So I'm trying to figure out numbers for say 5,000k, 10,000 and 100,000 subscribers and while I can do some math I'm asking about peoples experience. How much bandwidth are you guys using, how many subscribers do you have? I personally just used like 40gig of bandwidth in 48 hours with one video clip of David Cross from Arrested development. But I don't normally host videos as I'm a revlogger ad a promoter of all your fine works, not a vlogger myself. So, this is an incredibly usussual thing for me. Off topic point one... Is there anyone doing paid vlog or audio podcast subscriptions? On a side note, there's the big monetization issue. Does anyone here know if anyone's tried doing paid subscription video casts. I'm sure sooner or later Apple will offer RSS podcasted DRM'd feeds of music and / or audio podcasts. After all it makes a hell of a lot of sense to subscribe to an entire season of Lost or Desperate Housewives and have it delivered right to your computer than to have to constantly wait for it to come out and then buy it a la carte. However, I'm not waiting around. And I believe DRM is like putting a ten dollar bill in a half ton safe. Complete overkill and a stupid arse pain in the arse for everyone. So, what I'm asking is what mechanisms for paid subscription are people using? Are there any? or is everyone just doing advertising? Advertising will not fly for this product. Not the client and not the customers who'll be day traders, brokers and people who'll be getting the morning report on their way to the trading room floor. They're going to be very willing to pay for a good product and won't put up with much advertising at all. They're the sort of people who believe in money in hand and paying for what they want and don't fuck around. It's the perfect demographic really. So... it'll probably a paid subscription morning report... witht he same content being offered free after 11pm. Timeliness is everything. Of topic point two... Long live the videographer About the generally increasing need for good videographers. It's way to early to say if my little project will fly, but if it does go the way I hope my client will be needing a part-time or fulltime videographer and audio editor to manage all the day-to-day operations. I definitely not selling myself for that job, I don't have the skills, I just love to help build stuff, not run it. But that's getting a head of everything. What I'm really saying is these sort of opportunities for videographers are exploding right now. With the ametuerization of video based media the ones that benefit most are going are the professional videographers... Sounds strange right? Wrong. People ALWAYS make this mistake. The more widespread a technology gets the more people appreciate professional quality. Most of all knowledge worker fields or at least most of all creative fields are based upon what I call an "appreciation economy". It's something I learned very early on in design. The more designers, the more appreciation for design. The more good designers the more appreciation for good design. The only thing I can't abide is truly bad design done by people who really ought to know better. Why the hell do you think everyone in the creative fields flocks to big competitive markets like NY. It's because widespread adoption and exposure breeds further appreciation. Some say competition breeds innovation. Yes, true, but it also breeds appreciation and more appreciation breeds growth in an industry. You see this from the microeconomics to the macroeconomics. Blogs have helped news media and most of the traditional print news companies have adapted and are now making more money than ever, though admittedly a few are failing to adapt. Digital photography and the widespread distribution of cheap camera's has not just made the photography more competitive. Now infinitely more people are making infinitely more money as professional photographers. Ebay ametuerized commerce... now more people than ever are making more money and the majority of those in the middle of the tail, like professional antiquers are making more money than ever. Ask an antique dealer who sells on ebay. So too will you make more money as professional videographers. The trick is staying on the forefront as far up in the middle of that curve is possible... and I don't think anyone who is going to be reading this is going to have any trouble doing that because by definition you're up on the latest trends in your field if your participating in this group and vlogging. Anyway, that's why I'm doing everything I can for my part in helping democratized media. It helps to not only redistribute everything from power to money to the great debate, but it also helps grow the debate and the economy. Everyone wins, even those retarded saps, the incumbent media like record labels and big media companies who are bitching and whining.. ironically they stand to benifit too... just as news media companies have benifited tremendously from blogging. The NYTimes is doing better than ever thank you very much. That's a far cry from obselete wouldn't you say? Well, I've said to much again and gotten way off subject. Peace, -Mike of mmeiser.com/blog On Nov 15, 2005, at 10:56 PM, petertheman wrote: --- In [email protected], Vincent Njoroge Ndonye > different audience and am wondering about recommendations for hosts who can > handle around 5TB reliably. Who is the best out there for this > level of Hey Vincent, why the 5TB number? Don't worry about hosts and numbers, you can always scale up. Just get a Dreamhost account and start posting. Peter Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/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/
