The "number" of people who post videos online fails to differentiate between those who do so regularly and seriously versus those who shoot a few nonsensical videos & post them only now and then. There is a huge number of people who only put a few videos online and then simply stop posting or disappear. I'm amazed at the large percentage of people who I subscribe to at various sites who literally go 6 to 9 months without posting one new video and the equally large number of "users" who simply no longer exist. Do some research of your own. Check out "other videos" by a user, look at when they joined & how many videos they post. Most people do it on a whim, get no response & lose interest. In fact, consistent posters who have real video skills frequently go for weeks/months between posts. So this 10 million figure is totally misleading. Sometimes, people make their videos private so only certain people can view them. I suspect a disproportionate number of people posting videos on the Internet are teenagers who have grown up in the new video age. They are the ones who appear to have made MySpace so big. Actually, the number of serious content producers are few and far between.
Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In [email protected], "Brook Hinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's 14 percent of those shooting their own video. It's all in the > actual (short and easy to digest) report: > > http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/Pew_Videosharing_memo_Jan08.pdf > > > Brook > > On 1/10/08, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Oh is it 14% of the 22% who shoot some video? Even so that would still be > > getting on for > > 10 million people? > > > > Are there really that many people posting videos? If so I admit to being > > shocked, Id have > > thought the net would seem a bit different if there were that many, but > > maybe my sense > > of reality on this isue is all wrong. > > > > Cheers > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > --- In [email protected], "Steve Watkins" <steve@> wrote: > > > > > > Nice to hear such things. > > > > > > I cant quite believe some of those number sthough. If 14% of Americans > > posted soe > > video > > > online, isnt that like 42 million people or something? Surely thats not > > right, and its > > either a > > > bogus number of badly explained there, could be 14% of some smaller > > subset of > > > Americans? > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Andrew Baron <andrew@> wrote: > > > > > > > > "According to net measurement firm Nielsen Online, some online video > > > > sites have doubled their audience since the strike began at the end > > > > of October." > > > > > > > > "In September and October, Crackle enjoyed an audience of 1.2m users > > > > which doubled to 2.4m in November and December, it found." > > > > > > > > "Some 22% of Americans now shoot their own videos, with 14% of them > > > > posting at least some of that video online." > > > > > > > > > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7180889.stm > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab >
