--- In [email protected], "pouringdownpix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Bill Cammack" <BillCammack@> > wrote: > > > > I seriously don't know why people expect videos about uninteresting > > (except to "the audience of ten") topics to EVER be monetized. As far > > as I know, there's not an example YET of that happening. If anyone > > knows of one, feel free to post and let me know. > > > > hi, > > never YET? never EVER? > > "uninteresting" videoblog monetized, if only for a moment: > > http://pouringdown.tv/?p=161 > > > -- > > daniel, pouringdown.tv
Well... Congrats on getting paid to do a commissioned video. :D However, we can nit-pick all day. It's pretty clear from the rest of my post which you cut out that that's not what I'm talking about. Not being familiar with your videoblog, I don't know if that's something you had already done that they decided to pay you to use for their purposes, or a situation where they saw your work and wanted you to make something for them because they liked your style. Either way, it's commendable. However, I was talking about *advertising*. There's a difference between someone paying you to make a video that THEY USE and someone paying you to advertise on YOUR site. My examples, which again, were cut out by you in your response... were Amanda Congdon, Ask A Ninja, WallStrip and Hayden Black. My point was about consistency, quality, demonstrated ability and other factors adding up to agencies or companies being interested in them BEFORE any form of demographic quantization was available, because it STILL isn't available. I wasn't saying that NOBODY'S going to give ANY videoblogger ANY money to do what they do unless they have similar talents or qualities. Wreck & Salvage has done auctions for advertising space on their show. Galacticast has given out titles to people financially supporting thier show. There are people that have deals with UTA. There are people that have deals with Next New Networks. I'm sure there are people every day that use their videoblog as a resume and get some sort of paying work for video production or post. People are getting ad-sharing revenue from blip, revver, etc. So... We can come up with a million examples of "Someone paid me to do a video", but the thread, which you deleted, was about advertising dollars moving over from MSM to internet video. In order to understand WHY someone would pay someone to make an internet video, you have to understand WHY someone would pay someone to make an MSM video. The reasons are that on television, you can quantify the demographics and tell the advertisers what ROI they're going to get if they place a 30-second ad on such and such a show at such and such a time on such and such a day. You can NOT do that [yet] on the internet, so until that time, unless you demonstrate extraordinary talent, or as Markus brought up, something you do happens to become really popular for some reason, nobody's getting paid [from advertisers]. -- billcammack http://reelsolid.tv
