> I have to say that Dmitri has always been really friendly and nice, across many interactions over many years, and today of all days I want to wish him and everyone who worked at Veoh well. > I actually think about everyone in our Web video world all those years ago as being somewhat of a pioneer.
I never met Dmitri or had any interaction with him. Veoh did give a couple small sponsorships at Vloggercon and Pixelodeon. I certainly dont wish ill will towards anyone. Ive made too many mistakes in my short life to enjoy other people's failure. But it interesting to see how things are playing out. Techcrunch had a relevant article today: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/12/online-video-vcs-wrong/ Were still in the early days of online video content and history is > repeating itself. The film industry initially recreated theater and added a > camera to record plays; early TV recreated radio and added a camera as > well. Online video content has much room for improvement, but what is > missing is the kind of investment required to create compelling content. > VCs keep throwing out cliché after cliché and just show their lack of > understanding of that fact. Sure, some of the aggregators such as Veoh did > scale quickly but it wasnt all that defensive. Despite all of this, VCs > seem to be making all of the same mistakes over and over again: investing in > the technology and not in the content. > This is something we've all spoken about at length. There's plenty of money for technology and ZERO money for creators. Advertising is something to watch but there's a HUGE gap between making a video series and bootstrapping its popularity long enough where you might make some money to survive. I also like the mantra: "the web is not TV". Ill be sad if all this work just leads to HULU, or another place where you can watch LOST episodes. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
