Another Video Site Bites the Dust
Well we’re clearly in the bubble burst of online-video sites. Stage6 shut down, and Revver was sold. Who’s next?

Well we’re clearly in the bubble burst of online-video sites. Stage6 shut down, and Revver was sold. Who’s next?

You know I’ve blogged got almost 3 years about online video. I used to check out the stats, and think about SEO. Now I just dig the informality and the little gang that’s formed around it. Since the typical ratio of views/comments is probably 95 and 5, I’m probably ignoring the needs of a few…
Sensational headline, and not yet true (that I’m aware). But it will be this summer. If you’re ripping off TV and uploading it, you can’t hide behind YouTube. Remember the Napster days when a few individuals got singled out and brought to court? We’ll soon see a few high-profile lawsuits against not YouTube but its…
I really like this piece titled “Four Reasons to Shut Up on Twitter,” and actually read the entire iMediaConnections piece despite the need to advance pages several times to read it all. Madhuri Shekar (a Sony pictures intern) provides some wisdom (some from a 140 conference) about brand best and worst-practices of Twitter, and some…
We are highly amused by thoughts from former Disney CEO (Michael Eisner) at the recent NATPE event (see TubeFilter for more). Eisner is now CEO of The Torante Company, and its digital studio is called Vuguru. Very web 2.0 branding. He speaks about traditional media’s “death march,” and says YouTube’s revenue share “draconian.” But he also…
Editorial update: See this site for more information. Thanks, Travis! Oh yeahhhh… Nalts ranking it up with some seriously online killers. Thanks Brentalfloss! Feeling cool! Here’s the Internet People original, which will remind you of some classics (most of which you’ll hear about again from your mom soon since she discovered Facebook). Oh- and then…
Say what you will about this vulgar vlogger, the kids find him funny (see stats in chart below). I ran into him while discovering that my “accident face” video ranked high in most-popular comedy. I’ll now coin this RKV: road-kill viewing. You may wish you weren’t watching, but you know you can’t not watch it….
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youtube?
microsoft?
apple?
google?
oh wait, I must have licked a toad
and now ladies and gentlemen there’s music!
Vmix is next out the door.
Yes, VMIX. Here’s a letter from them about “restructuring”. What I want to know is how they can call themselves the cliched “established leader” in anything when they’re not even sure of their business model:
Dear VMIX Subscriber,
Beginning this week, you’re going to see a number of changes on VMIX.COM. We’re restructuring the site to reflect the shift in our product focus and gearing up for a complete redesign.
The first thing you’ll notice is that our homepage now places our technology offerings upfront. This is nothing new for us – VMIX is an established leader in providing media-management and community platforms, currently powering over 200 media, publishing and broadcast websites. We’re simply changing our site to reflect that focus.
All features and functionality will remain available until March 18, when we remove the community site to focus entirely on our VMIX CORE technology. We are sad to see the community site go but have an exciting product in the works called VMIX Marketplace that will offer massive exposure to content producers. In a nutshell, Marketplace provides a clean and easy-to-use interface that allows your videos to reach over 50 million uniques in the VMIX Network.
Between now and March 18, you can access the original VMIX.COM content and community at vmix.com/content. We also recommend checking out the partner sites listed on our blog at http://www.vmix.com/blog.php, where you can enjoy uploading video, creating photo galleries and much more. If you have questions about any of these changes, please feel free to contact helpdesk@vmix.com.
Sincerely,
Chris Stuberg & Dave Brown
VMIX Content Team
What the hell happened to jischinger’s name??????????
nalts,I dont get it, u keep saying revver was sold,but they are still in business,their top advertisers probably dropped them temporarily because of the news of the buyout,and the recent drop in traffic,but revvers traffic is at its highest since june of 2007,so the advertisers should come back soon,BTW id never even heard of stage6,so im sure most others havent either
Steve, there’s a good reason you never heard of Stage6 — their marketing was non-existent. (They should have hired Nalts!) If you’re interested, I explore the marketing ineptitude of Stage6 and other Web 2.Overrated companies in my blog:
http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/stage6/
sukatra my password 😉
Freddy,
In your sidebar, you write of yourself:
“he draws on insights attained from two decades of experience in advertising and entertainment”
but the picture above this blurb looks to be of a person 19 years old. Start in the womb, did you?
🙂
Dear Lulu TV Shareholder,
Thanks for participating. This is the last Lulu TV co-op pool. We are
discontinuing our paid co-op program for the time being. Thanks for
your support and visit often!
Hey Marquis:
Thanks for the compliment. I knew there was a reason I liked that photo! (Nalts knows what I look like in person.)
Proof of my age: I’ve been trying to track down the first album by the British heavy metal group Axe, which I listened to in junior high (1979).
Not good enough?
Thanks also for checking out my blog.
Freddy
1979!? You ARE a young whippersnapper! By 1979 I was on my second wife and third house.
You were able to afford alimony and a house? Wow, that was a long time ago…
What was Lulu.tv? I worked in the online-video industry and never heard of them. Talk about wretched marketing (or, more likely, a suicidal disdain of marketing).
Lulu.tv (see name link in Post #9 above) was one of the first revenue-sharing video hosting sites.
lulu is where I saw my first cat online. I think that’s where they all came from.