Good luck with that! :D Are they featuring just one of your videos, or are they planning to rotate them? That might make a difference as far as which of your videos collect hits.
--- In [email protected], "Ed Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi I may be able to give you some additional feedback after tomorrow. > Veoh.com is featuring my One Minute Motivator series of vids on their site > tomorrow. These are short "success/motivation" vids of less that 2 min and > in the vids is a listing of my website to go for more info. Now less than > 10% of the general population is into "success/motivation", so I expect that > only a small percent of the people seeing one of the vids will view the > other 7 One Minute Motivators currently listed there, but we will see. Also > it is my guess that the bulk of the people visiting video websites are young > men, and they tend not to be into "success/motivation". So while I am > thrilled veoh.com is featuring the One Minute Motivator, I can't help > wondering why they picked it given what I think is their viewership. > Anyway, once I get some sense of the numbers of views, and then website > visits and sign ups for my free email version of the One Minute Motivator, I > will come back to the group and share my numbers. Thanks, Ed. > > On 3/28/07, Bill Cammack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected] <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > > "Heath" <heathparks@> wrote: > > > > > > We've discussed this a bit but I had a very personal experiece > > > recently that proved (at least to me) an interesting viewship "fact". > > > > > > Being "featured" somewhere does not mean you will gain a jump in > > > views to your other videos. Recently one of my posts was featured on > > > the Yahoo video page, I was one there for over a day, that video did > > > great numbers by far my most popular video, over 8,000 views which > > > for me...is HUGE. Anyway, I was really pumped but I noticed that > > > while I did gain some subscribers I didn't gain a whole lot of views > > > on my other videos. > > > > > > Being featured was great but unless you are being featured all the > > > time, it doens't appear to mean a thing really. > > > > > > So I am curious, what has been other's experience's? And why is it > > > that it never seems to translate? I mean I know if I see something I > > > like I check out other stuff. Am I alone in that? > > > > > > Is my 15 minutes of fame already up? How many licks does it take to > > > get to the center of a tootise roll tootise pop? I need to know! > > > > > > Heath > > > http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com > > > > The reason it doesn't translate is that there's nothing to translate. > > > > "Featuring" puts a video in front of someone's face. The way the > > culture works, if you put it in front of their face, they might click > > it. That doesn't mean they know or care anything about what they're > > clicking on. They just want to see what's interesting, OR they like > > looking at whatever's "featured". > > > > It's not the same thing as saying to a crowd of people "Hey! I have a > > show about XYZ! Would you all like to watch it?" and they say "yes" > > and you give them the URL, and they're actually invested in the topic > > or your character or whatever the draw of the video is. All they want > > to see is what they want to see right now. The "fame" part comes from > > the being selected, not from how many people click on it. > > > > It's similar to the reason why paparazzi shows stay on the air > > indefinitely. There's a large group of people that want to know > > what's popular right now. They want to know who got drunk at the > > party and whose clothes fell off. They want to know who cut their > > hair and who's coming out of rehab today. Once they get their fix, > > it's time for the next fix. > > > > This is why advertisers should be careful about attempting to estimate > > popularity and/or ability to draw an audience from stats generated > > from things like being featured and piggybacking on highly-viewed > > videos with "video responses". Someone might get 300,000 hits on > > their video, but that's only because it was a video response to a clip > > that got 2,000,000 hits. It indicates NOTHING about their ability to > > draw, maintain and grow an audience, and as you point out, it doesn't > > even mean that people will check out the rest of their series after > > landing on their featured video. > > > > -- > > Bill C. > > http://TheLab.ReelSolid.TV > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
