One thing stuck me about your comment, Randolfe A comment of, "Cool" is not necessarily from an airhead.
Sometimes it's simply a function of time. Would you prefer someone who liked your work leave no comment than, "Cool"? Sometimes, "Cool" is all I have to give, but that doesn't make it nuthin'. Jan On 3/28/07, humancloner1997 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Being featured on Veoh may not be as potent as it used to be. > Whenever I sign into Veoh, the "featured videos" that play for me are > based on my recent viewing history and coments. > > This means that I have mostly Japanese Pop videos which consumes most > of my viewing time. > > YouTube is very vacuous. One techie told me a couple weeks ago that > he could set a program in his computer to click on his video every > few seconds. > > He said this would put him up on the "most viewed" YouTube page but > he'd only be there for a few minutes. YouTube would check his "hits" > and see they all came from his program. > > Beyond that, reading comments on YouTube and checking out the profile > of the "members" posting them reveals that 90% (or more) have 0 > videos that they themselves have posted. > > Add to this percentage all those who post clips from commercial shows > and you will find that YouTube's audience are > overwhelmingly "consumers". Most of them are vacuous "airheads" > which is verifiable by the literacy and intelligence of their > comments which frequently are simple statements like "Cool!" > and/or "I like this." etc. > > That is why I prefer Veoh & Blip. At least most of the viewers there > are way above the YouTube crowd. > > Randolfe (Randy) Wicker > www.RandyWickerReporting.blogspot.com > Hoboken, NJ (One mile from the center of the known world!) > > > --- In [email protected], "Bill Cammack" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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" <edd666666@> 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 <BillCammack@> 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] > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- The Faux Press - better than real http://fauxpress.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
