Hulu Tube: Phasinig You Out of YouTube
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Stumble ThisThis video, from The Real Weekly News Channel on YouTube, was posted on April 16th, 2009. It raises concerns about recent changes on YouTube.
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http://www.clickz.com/3633218
Petition:
http://guardianhost.com/realweeklynews/index.php?news=dmca-reform-petition
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V025E_b5I4g
*promote
Videosift ftw.
Youtube has been shit for a while now. Nothing but kids and idiots on that website. You could never have an intelligent conversation there.
Videosift ftw.
That's actually giving it more credit than it deserves. The reality is that Youtube has always been shit. For every user generated video worth watching there's easily a thousand that are a complete waste of time. If you actually sat down and tried to comb through just the user made content, the amount of garbage on that site simply is staggering. And as a quick look at the Sift's top 20 any day of the week will show you, most of what does get watched and is worth watching is not user created. Meanwhile Google continues to pour half a billion dollars a year into this bottomless hole so it can host videos for people who demand, essentially, that Google continue to lose money hosting this crap.
Now don't get me wrong. I think Youtube and what it's done for internet culture is a wonderful thing, and in a perfect world it would go on forever. We just all knew that wasn't going to happen.
*talks
All those tricks I used to have my videos showing up on the front page are now useless.
YouTube and Google seems to favor large broadcasting corporations over the little guys like me.
It's like I live in a country where business is more important than everything else.
This sucks.
I'm gonna have a beer now.
The fridge is empty.
Bummer.
Google loses 470 million $ on youtube per year and if they want to try and make it profitable, fine! ...
Regardless of whether Google makes or looses money on youtube, is slightly moot. If you turn around, alienate your viewers and customers, then you've already killed yourself. Then it's going to be back to an attempt to rebuild a customer base which is already highly suspect of any of your future motives.
For a company as large as Google, it can be crippling especially with the number of interlinked micro-companies. It's simply naive to believe that it won't hurt consumer perception overall. Despite what many believe, word of mouth is still the largest selling point, and with the Internet moving things faster then I can write this comment. The damage can be done.
They all start as a good idea with zero revenue and attract a mass of grass roots support. They cross the chasm from private to public they are owned by investors and a board of directors - NOT the community.
YouTube is THE top media host and outlet in the world. It's the 'google' of video. I watch way more video online (via videosift
What they have been (a community publisher) - is not what they have to be forever (the leading video media provider).
They have 'eaten the lunch' of the tv networks. To take the next step they need to make people go online to watch TV - then the TV networks will have to move online or die.
But it's ok!!! The net community is fickle anyway. They will move on to the next big thing. They dumped news sites and moved to aggregator blogs. They dumped IRC and moved to facebook. Most of the videos i watch are hosted at YouTube - But i watch them on videosift and other blogs. I don't actually go to youTube to watch them.
By abandoning the 'at home video maker', someone else will 'eat that lunch' by taking it to the next level.
>> ^Mashiki:
>> ^dingens:
Google loses 470 million $ on youtube per year and if they want to try and make it profitable, fine! ...
Regardless of whether Google makes or looses money on youtube, is slightly moot. If you turn around, alienate your viewers and customers, then you've already killed yourself. Then it's going to be back to an attempt to rebuild a customer base which is already highly suspect of any of your future motives.
For a company as large as Google, it can be crippling especially with the number of interlinked micro-companies. It's simply naive to believe that it won't hurt consumer perception overall. Despite what many believe, word of mouth is still the largest selling point, and with the Internet moving things faster then I can write this comment. The damage can be done.
I don't think Google cares. You don't lose $470 million a year on a business model without dumping said business model. The only thing of value is the You Tube name. The whole video discussion format is a money loser. People upload all sorts of crap for free, and stream crap out for free, and because such a large portion of it is pirated copyright material, You Tube cant sell it to advertisers. $470 million in losses is no longer worth the name recognition.
Next step, and you know it is coming, is no more free channels. "You want to post, you pay a subscription, or we yank your videos off."
Will it tick off users? You Bet!
Will it save money on server space? save money on bandwidth? Save a ton of money not having to police for copyright violations? Will hard core users, advocacy groups, non-profits, advertisers, music promoters, book promoters, talent agents etc. find the money to pay to post?
You Bet!
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