if your audience appreciates your work and is at least half-witty as to why you are trying such ad placements, then they should be happy to watch 15-30 seconds of this ad in order to support you.
if they are completely turned off by this approach and stop watching/supporting your work, then why would you care about them anyway?
if they were watching and enjoying your work for however long they were 'subscribed' then they are the ones who were getting a deal.... consuming what you take the time to create and publish.
if you are able to filter and use more quality ads.... then i dont think it should be looked at as bad or evil... what it is, folks, is reality.
you're not going to keep Internet Video pure... whether a vlog or not... with your negative sentiment about ads and content creators who decide to use them for sustainability.
look at it this way... if some subscribers drop off if you do use ads.... then you are filtering your viewer base with those who truly support you. screw the others. they can go blog about how ads suck and hwo vloggers are selling their souls, corrupting the culture and so on... you know... noisemaking.
do what you want if it works for you. just make sure you do it well ;-)
Sull
On 1/30/06, David Howell <
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Ah. Well...for me personally, I wouldnt run a video commercial. My
solution was an attempt to avoid the commercials "in video".
While I am not opposed to ads on a website, my wish is to not
interfere with the viewers experience of watching my/the content.
I may or may not include an ad below my videos in a pop-up window.
Still thinking about it. Would the small amount of revenue gained from
that be worth it? Maybe. However if viewers dont watch my videos
because of it, then I would certainly remove the ads.
For Rocketboom, with the multitudes of viewers they have, an
experiment like this may not be so harmful to lose a few viewers here
and there. For someone like me with a small amount of visitors, losing
a any amount of people watching would make a difference.
David
http://www.taoofdavid.com
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Sullivan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> but what if the ad is a video commercial?
> this is where much new experimentation will be done... not
image/text ads.
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> On 1/30/06, David Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Here is a simple solution for that. Took me all of 30 seconds to think
> > about it.
> >
> > User clicks link to video.
> >
> > Window opens with video in it and an ad placed below the video.
> >
> > Solution solved. Advertisers needs are met with the displaying if the
> > ad throughout the whole video and the user gets immediate
> > uninterrupted video content.
> >
> > Yes? No?
> >
> > David
> > http://www.taoofdavid.com
> >
> > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com , Rachel Knight
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Not a problem David, but if the ads are your choice whether to watch
> > > them, then they won't pay as much, as they are not guaranteed as
> > > large an audience to target.
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