More than 1,300 people reading CNet voted that Apple will be taking on YouTube. But take this with a grain of salt. I’m not sure I see Apple in the UGC video hosting and sharing space, and the other options of this poll were somewhat implausible.
Frankly I just hope Apple puts more effort into AppleTV, which allows me to watch YouTube favorites and buy films and television episodes with such ease I continue to pay $2 for countless episodes.
I’ve proclaimed it “Ugly Shirt Day” on January 15. There’s not much else going on this month, so why not? Dig into your wardrobe for the nastiest-looking shirt you can find, and e-mail a photo of you wearing it to uglyshirtday@gmail.com. Be sure to name the photo with your username (YouTube or other) so I…
Thursday night I was at my son’s first swim meet when I heard news about Michael Jackson being rushed to the hospital. While others searched Google news to no avail, I jumped on Twitter and found a number of third-hand reports that Jackson was dead. The only source listed was AOL-owned gossip website, TMZ. Here’s…
Michael Buckley, writer and host of “What the Buck Show,” has left his full-time job as regional assistant director at Denny’s to plunge full-time into online-video entertainment. Read about it in this New York Post article (found courtesy of this relatively new blog, “YouTube Reviewed“). Here are some quotes about his departure from a recent blog.tv show Buckley…
Even the niche interest groups are looking at online video. Jim’s blog on bikingdiscusses how to use online video to enhance the community of bicycling. Jim’s a friend, and I have no idea about the biking world (except that Tour de France accidents are interesting to watch on video). But he’s performed in a number…
So here’s a real-time gold-standard case study of social-media monitoring and action in just hours. We’re at this 9Beaches resort in Bermuda (wifeofnalts found it via The Today Show and it’s far more casual and affordable than most places in Bermuda). I did a small video this morning on my responseofnalts channel, and was planning…
Be sure to stay with this YouTube clip. The ghost isn’t, in fact, the old guy at the beginning (that’s CNN’s Larry King). It comes later… way down the hall. Don’t worry- this isn’t a scary prank video. Just an odd shadow that makes people wonder if Michael Jackson’s ghost is still hanging around. But…
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Maybe you should try something similar to the AppleTV (or Amazon video on demand) model Nalts. Instead of trying to sell your DVDs, you could make high definition versions of your videos available to download for cheap (maybe something like 5¢ to 50¢ each).
I think that might generate more revenue (that’s not saying much though) than the DVDs for several reasons:
First, buyers can choose exactly which videos they want and download just one or your entire collection.
Second, consumers can keep up with new content instead of being stuck with a few old videos.
Third, the ROI should be higher since you wouldn’t have to worry about buying, burning, and shipping DVDs.
Finally, it’s more appealing psychologically to pay out small sums of money periodically than one big payment.
Of course there would still be some of the same problems, perhaps the most important being that people don’t usually buy what they can get for free (which means it would probably be a good idea to include exclusive content).
It may very well be stupid idea, but maybe not. I thought I’d share it with you anyway.
“CAN YOU MONETIZE THAT?”
If they attempt to do something similar to YouTube, it will be a music service. I was actually thinking about this yesterday – if they did something like the partner program with a subscription-based music model, I have a feeling they would be a huge success.
But a full-on YouTube competitor? No way. Maybe music videos, maybe shows but not a UGC/YouTube-style system. Apple iTunes could, however, be the equivalent to an MTV at some point. I would almost venture to say they’ve been on that path a while and are more like MTV than MTV has been for a while…
Where in the hell is Sukatra? I know she’s back online! Come on Sukatra… this blog needs your help. The new people on here need to be schooled about how to comment on these posts.