--- In [email protected], "Gena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to add my two cents to this because I'm not trying to monetize > what I am doing; No disrespect intended. I've come around and I'm not > as rabid against the topic as I once was. > > I really want to stress that I feel the number game is to me a small > part of the story. I'm trying to represent this space in time on > video. I'm not a "professional". What am doing is more of a essay kind > of experience. I'm just trying to express a non-fiction narrative > story using text, photos and video. > > Sorry in advanced for being long winded. > > My current stats as I understand them from Blip: > > 194 Blip Video Posts with 44,236 views and 11 Blip Comments. > > I know that some video pirates/aggregators are stealing/displaying my > content w/o my consent so the numbers are higher. > > 394 Blogger Posts with a total of 25,000 views with 39,000 page views. > The daily average is 87 people. The number is a little low because I > lost my Site Meeter feed for a while without knowing it.
Gena has a good point here, with regard to "popularity". It's not just about how many video views you get... of course, unless that's all you have on your site. It's also about page views, visitors, how much they "bounce" according to Google Analytics... It's really a question of whether you're getting your point across and whether you're being seen or heard. I wasn't thinking about it, but over the last 60 days, my low for unique visitors is 35 and my high is 59... EVERY DAY. I have single digits worth of returning visitors. Assuming the stats really ARE "unique" visitors, and I was only getting 35 every day, that makes 1,050 people in the last month that landed on my site for one reason or another. Then you have to add your social networking sites. How many people see you on twitter? flickr? linkedin? myspace? youtube? veoh? meetup? brightcove? network2? revver? all the places where blip.tv syndicates to? I'm not talking about video views, because my videos aren't on auto-play. People can come to your site and GET what you have to say without watching your videos. > I selected the videos that seemed to doing well or represented my work > and put them in the sidebar. This is a good idea, too. A LOT of people "bounce" after just viewing one page, so it's a good idea to have things on that one page that might draw them to the most popular parts of your site. > The Nikki Giovanni videos started out real slow, maybe 1 or 2 views a > week. I was very disappointed, no real action for more than a year. > > Dr. Giovanni has a deep connection with many African-American women so > by word of mouth/searching has steadily increased the views. They are > now my all time popular videos at about a 1,000 1,500 views. > > If the audience that want what you have to say finds you we have to > let go of when they do. We are not TV in that respect, our initial > numbers are not the final numbers. They do evolve. That's another good point. I think most of the time, you can't take "popularity" or the lack thereof personally. People look for... what they're looking for. They're looking for topics, even though they watch and subscribe to people, as Steve Garfield likes to say. If they're into "green" and so are you, then you might make their delicious list. If they're into cooking and so are you, they might syndicate your blip player or re-blog one of your posts. It's really about letting the population that's interested in what you're talking about know that you're here and you have something to say and/or show. -- billcammack > LA Tofu Festival - Living La Vida Loca was one of the worst shot > videos I ever did. It was when my old faithful camcorder was > dying and I couldn't replace it. I salvage what I could and posted it > thinking nobody is going to watch it. I was wrong by 689 people. > Certain art videos do real well and sex and gender issue topics do > gain short burst of viewers. I can prove it ;-) > > The protest videos and the videos about visiting a local Mosque did OK > at about 350 each but I hoped they would do better. But I had folks > from Arab countries check it out. I have no idea how they found me. > > It was a slow, steady growth from five people a month, to maybe 6 a > day to steady 10, 20, 30 views. It stuck on those numbers for a long time. > > As I began to do more outreach, speaking, participating in > non-vlogging communities like BlogHer the numbers grew. I didn't go to > other blogs to plug mine, I like discovering bloggers and concepts. I > try to leave a comment each time. Bloggers like comments. > > I'll tell you, getting selected Blogger Site of the Day will jump your > numbers up very quickly, in the thousands. It will kick up your spam > level as well. But those folks are gone and I'm returning to normal > for me. > > The videos for the library program students have really low numbers in > the 30s(as in 30 people)but as the next wave of students comes in and > check them out > they will grow. As I do more talks to libraries and librarians it will > grow. > > David Kessler from Shadow Lands does damn beautiful work. In fact, he > is giving me a complex at the moment, in a good way. He should have > better numbers than me. > > Shadow Lands will as people talk him up, and he puts the networking > into place. Some of you do similar kinds of videos, it is going to > take time to find your audiences. They are looking for you as well. > > So much to say about this, > > Gena >
