Comments on: Amateur Versus Professional Video on YouTube: What’s Next?

By: Dave Kruis

Dave Kruis — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:27:51 +0000

Nalts, be patient. Let the market mature a bit more and I think you’ll find there is plenty of room for the amateurs. The reality is that viewership drives the media industry, and while one or two ‘blockbusters’ on Hulu can earn high views, it’s still small in comparison to the views generated by the amateurs. One can’t blame the ‘established’ media distribution entities for wanting to control how things are done on the web. Thankfully the internet is pretty efficient (as the music industry learned) and these controls can’t really last. As long as there is an audience, there will always be a place for amateurs.

By: Amateur vs. Pro on Youtube...Yes, We're Talking about THAT Again | Online Video Reviews

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:21:09 +0000

[...] one of our favorite Youtubers, Kevin Nalts (yes I’m becoming a fan boy), wrote a short post about this on his blog -willvideoforfood.comand made a video about it. Nalts points out that there [...]

By: NutCheese

NutCheese — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:50:34 +0000

Kevin totally wants to do sxephil… and not just for the subs

By: xjasongarciax

xjasongarciax — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:49:52 +0000

@13 You signed him in my Nalts hat and told me in my video I made for you! )

By: Reubnick

Reubnick — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:10:38 +0000

Nalts, to answer your question of what the future of youtube is, I’ll tell you.

Me, Reubnick. I am the future of youtube,

HAHAHAH! I’m just kidding! Nobody will ever care about me! I bet I tricked you guys, though. You thought I was serious! But I wasn’t! I’ll be lucky to ever get over 1,000 subscribers by the day I die!

By: Nalts

Nalts — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:58:29 +0000

OMG Jason knew the name of Sammy. Did we go to school together, or did I fess up to him on a video I don’t recall? And yeah- the zoom was a remote control I found in the back of the car. The trick was pointing it over the left side of my head (so it wasn’t in the shot).

By: Peter Coffin

Peter Coffin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:03:08 +0000

@7 – more sites will certainly follow. These sites are just completely unable to capture a community of people like YouTube has. Brightcove, for instance, created a great back-end for professional video hosting but the community generated was unable to really become a sustainable entity.

YouTube, on the other hand, would piss off about 70% of it’s userbase if they went all-professional content and stopped user uploads. They know that and will not do it.

Also, they have an infrastructure set up (and a community to utilize it) to literally have a buttload of new content every second. If that changes, it becomes those 16 new promoted videos a day and whatever is on the charts. That isn’t enough to keep interest, as all these other sites that have gone or are going to go all-pro content or become a backend for hosting.

By: brindle16

brindle16 — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:00:23 +0000

hm, I should integrate that with my “best videos” thing.

meaning instead of putting related video, put my best videos or most viewed videos

By: xjasongarciax

xjasongarciax — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:23:31 +0000

I made 2 comments on the Dangers of cell phone driving video and neither showed up. I’m so depressed right now! You must have blocked me Mr. Nalty! Hmmm, that reminds me, whatever happened to “stalkerofnalts” I loved his/her comments!

Anyway, I said I was glad to see Sammy the snake and I loved how you were reading while passing 2 cop cars. You never let me down! )

Where did you place the camera while zooming in from the back? Oh wait, maybe it was Sammy the snakes friend, the snake tripod?

By: xjasongarciax

xjasongarciax — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:27:52 +0000

@8 Does this mean Nalts’ popularity is going to die? Is it a cold case file already? Seesh! I ain’t got nothin’ to do with it!