Cool, sorry for not replying sooner. I guess a problem is that its easy for me to talk negative about advertising, not so easy to see a clear alternative for an alliance to focus on.
I guess if ads & sponsorship are out, then alternative are donations, subscriptions, merchandise sales, art grants, keeping the day job, umm what else am I forgetting? I know there ahve been some fine efforts by some people here to do all they can for the donations model. I havent really seeen anybody playing with the subscription idea, I guess it is risky. Most of these things still need a certain scale to work, just like ads. If you make it to a certain level, the good old ways of making money open themselves up to people, but I still dont know how it can be scaled down to work for the masses. My mind always wanders to some sort of micropayment system, but I havent really a clue how it could actually work. Maybe if/when one of the commercial new media networks becomes sucessful, it may be worthwhile thinking about a non-commercial network that still has some money in it somehow, oh I dunno, it would just be nice if vloggers could achieve something for all by coming together, but enabling any profit to be fully reused by the members, rather than the hosting site of whatever being the ones who can capitalise from the masses? Less than half-baked, I know. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Stephanie Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/18/07, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:My fears and rants > about advertising seldom meet with much response, > > > so I imagine nobody wants to form an alliance for downloadable media > > that is untouched by advertising and all that goes with it. Well, fair > > enough, many peoples only hopes of making money through vlogs involves > > advertising, just be aware that this means dealing with companies who > > handle this stuff, and that they will generally behave as companies > > always do, nothing has really changed in the web 2 era that would > > cause web 2 companies to have a different nature to that which has > > gone before. > > > > I would join that alliance, Steve. Because not only do I not like ads, but I > have come to the conclusion that they are only minimally effective in blog. > > > -- > Stephanie Bryant > Author, Videoblogging for Dummies > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mortaine.com/ > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
