David! You have Google ads on your site, as does Minnesota Stories, where you've been kind enough to lend your video. So you must tolerate some degree of ads. Maybe Google ads are unobtrusive and/or you can easily ignore them. Wouldn't the same be true of a video ad, potentially? Esp. after the real content? It's fine to draw the line someplace, but I'm just pointing out you must not be 100% against advertising on vlogs.
Minnesota Stories will surely have a video ad someday (please...) preferably something "not evil." Not only to offset the growing costs of my growing audience, but because I'd sure like to do Minnesota Stories for a living if it's possible. It has so much potential, but I don't have the time or resources to give it all the care and feeding it needs to really blossom. Anyway, I hope you don't boycott the site when that happens. Heck, if you want to make a quirky 15 sec promo for your own vlog, I'll run it for a day as an experiment. That's definitely a "not evil" ad, of sorts. Let's imagine and try different ideas. There really aren't a whole lot of options for sustaining a vlog with a bigger audience, esp. if you want to devote all your time to it. Rocketboom is trying two of the main ones, advertising and subscription. The way they're going about advertising is very creative and innovative, I'd say. It's surprising it's taken them this long, given their massive audience and growing costs, to bring in some money. Peace, Chuck http://mnstories.com --- In [email protected], "David Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No amount of debate from anyone voicing the virtues of making a quick > buck from their online videos is going to change my opinion. Insert > the ads in the beginning, in the middle, in the end. I dont care. All > I know is that if I come across a vlog, choose to watch a video, and > there is a commercial in it, I wont watch that persons video again. > > David > http://www.taoofdavid.com 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/
