As someone who has, of his own violition, posted content on MyHeavy (and, probably, every other site that hosts stuff....) I can only report that in my limited experience it's (mostly) a pseudo-user-generated cheesecake site.
There is little visibility for anything other than the pseudo-vlogs of the 'MyHeavy Angels' contest and (although this may be of little consolation to anyone...) little to drive the typical user beyond that thick layer of cheesecake. So I doubt very much that anyone saw your vlog on it. No one saw my videos and I put them there, using "fairly mercenary keywords". Ahem. I am sure the ad pitch is something along the lines of, "It's YouTube meets MySpace and all the hard-to-reach young male demographic is spending all day there." Hence, BurgerKing et al. As I understand it they're privately funded, and don't have VC funding. However my best guess is that scraping feeds provides that all important, "We host ______ number of videos" metric. It's a lot easier (and cheaper) to suck in content than have individual users post it (especially when, i suspect, no one will ever see it unless it has boobies). I have some experience in the field and those "number of videos hosted" metrics are important (as would be avoiding bad publicity if they're about to go looking for funding...). Just something to consider when building the case against... Mark Day http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv www.myspace.com/markday www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy
