Comments on: Will YouTube Segregate Professional from Amateur Content?

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By: Pedro

Pedro — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:16:33 +0000

So boring.

By: DahliaK

DahliaK — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:17:50 +0000

@6 – Not you, Naltsy. One deleter is a contributor on this blog who didn’t like my tone (apparently), which is all I have to say about that. Another is a woman poet I have been following. When I observed that she was defining a well-established female poet primarily in terms of her relationship with a well-established male fiction writer, which struck me as curious and unnecessary, the comment went poof. (Well, I had a point; maybe that was the problem.)

By: marquisdejolie

marquisdejolie — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:25:52 +0000

How is Brightcove doing with this pro-only, subscription fee strategy?

By: Nalts

Nalts — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:47:42 +0000

Interesting comments. Dahlia- wtf on the deleted comments. I didn’t do that. Welcome to the dialogue Lizzy. I wish more of you would come out of hiding! Jan- kudos on the list.

By: jischinger

jischinger — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:09:18 +0000

“You Tube may be transforming from a user-generated platform to a professional media distributor.” blah blah blah blah

Social networking is going to need a bailout.

1. nitch.
2. too much work.
3. yep, but they will have something in the corner, they’ll call it Classic You Tube.
4 You Tube will have to really slick it up.
5, That depends, my deflated dollar’s on You Tube becoming the Yahoo of online video.

Bottom line – what was good will last forever, but it’s time to start talk about a viral video museum. The thrill is gone. Was fun while it latsted, but it’s time for something new.

Can you feel it?

By: Fraser Agar

Fraser Agar — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:46:41 +0000

One thing I am interested to see is what this “pro” section will look like for Canadians, considering that 90% of “pro” content is blocked from Canadian IPs because of regional licensing.

Anyways, when it comes down to it, the proof is in the pudding- by which I mean, advertisers choice for either “pro” or partner content will be determined by the conversion rate.

Unfortunately, this rate will be skewed, because advertisers can tailor their campaigns to the major content that they run ads against, based on much more then demographic. But as you said, the demo is all they have to go on for partner content, unless they want to micro-manage every ad to video placement. And that is what kills partner revenue, inefficient non-sensical ad placement, or a lack of advertisers to fit the niche of the content. Seriously… back pain ads running on a video game comedy series?! No wonder I’m making peanuts!

By: Lizzy the Lezzy

Lizzy the Lezzy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:23:13 +0000

in a few years Nalts, you’ll write a blog about “the death of TV” and how partners used to earn money from ads, but now people have to pay to subscribe to our channels and watch our videos as part of their “amateur subscription package” to Youtube. hell, they might even charge us for having a channel!

p.s. i’m one of those people who visits here quite regularly and never comments

By: Z-lot

Z-lot — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:38:51 +0000

YouTube strikes again… don’t say it wasn’t to be expected.

From what I see, the Community part of YouTube, the amateurs, vloggers, non-profit and Nalts-alikes, are slowly being reduced to just one of many video categories called Amateur.

The pornographic analogy comes very handy here. “Amateur” is a cross-cutting category, it exists as a part of each other category, just like on porn sites, and is the same time its own “Amateur” category whose existence on YouTube is being threatened – unlike on endless Porn-tube sites. The irony.

My bottom line: YouTube should learn from the model of porn sites, change their paradigm and keep amateur content as an equally important niche since a lot of people obviously prefer it to various pro categories.
The alternative is complete marginalization and eventual disappearance of amateur content.

Now I’m tempted to write (an even longer) blog post about this…

By: DahliaK

DahliaK — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:42:30 +0000

I never thought of myself as ADD until I started reading this blog. Any post that requires scrolling 3 screens or more, I can’t follow.

On an unrelated matter, some of my comments on YouTube videos that might be considered “critical” get deleted. One thing I like about Nalts is, he doesn’t delete the critical ones. He appreciates them for the minor art form that they are.