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?

When a video freezes it’s called a “rebuff,” and it happens 8% of each video stream. And when it does, 80% of viewers stop watching. That’s according to TubeMogul, who track these things from the players it monitors. Tubemogul also allows publishers to push their content to all the major online-video sharing sites for free….
Though television may be losing viewers to online video, it continues to hold advertisers.ย Fewer people have been watching traditional TV channels so far this TV season, the first such decline since at least 2007. Here are some details, punctuated by my favorite “cringe worthy” quote of television versus online video. The Wall Street Journal’s Suzanne…
Heh, heh (in Beavis & Butthead impersonation). A “Featured Video Fail.” It won’t soon make 4Chan, but it made us giggle. It won’t come as surprise to you WVFF loyalists that I’m not a big fan of prerolls. Sure only about 16% of us skip them, but my ADHD “instant gratification” tendency, like maybe yours,…
Check out Mad Ave Blues, a song parody of “American Pie” that spoofs the demise of traditional media and upfronts… written by LMcDuff08 (via OnlineVideoWatch). It’s really well sung and written, and hits some key themes in funny ways. Even if it’s about 6 minutes longer than it needs to be… it only took a…
What’s the fine line between marketing your video and cheating? Comotion Group cofounder Dan Ackerman Greenberg certainly dances along that gray area between marketing and cheating. In this self aggrandizing article on TechCrunch, Greenberg boasts about how he’s getting clients views (thanks to InsideVideo for helping me find this one). His techniques fall into three…
Warning: This post has a self-serving promotional element, but I still think you’ll find it entertaining. A strange thing happens to marketers in December, and it’s a phenomenon that is true for most companies in any industry. Marketers spent much of the year managing their budget tightly, asking about ROI, and squeezing vendors. Then in…
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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 โ 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 ๐
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?
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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.