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How Will Online Video Sites Deal With Liability? Can They Have Their Souflee And Eat It Too?

ByNalts

Jean-Baptiste Soufron is French, Chief Legal Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, writes in this recent blog post that “more and more copyrighted content are being uploaded on their servers without the proper authorizations from copyright owners.” Says Soufron, their content is too often violating third parties copyright or privacy, they expose their users to the…

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90 Percent of Online Video Sites Will Disappear

ByNalts

In this San Francisco Chronicle article by Ellen Lee, Charles River Venture Capitalist George Zachary predicts that 90 percent of online video sites will disappear. Some will simply shut down; others will be gobbled up by larger companies. (Brief ad here- if anyone wants to gobble up CubeBreak, make an offer… I just got a…

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The Most Wonderfully Nauseating Video Ever: Walmart MySpace

ByNalts

Walmart is just one step away from making Mentos & Diet Coke explosions in its parking lot to win the hearts of the 20-something crowd (you know, the ones that will be shopping at Walmart around the year 2057). Thanks to Adriana Cronin-Lukas’ “Furl” for identifying this AdAge story about Walmart’s MySpace account. AdAge refers to it as…

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Marquisdejolie Reviews Pay-For-Content Sites

ByNalts

One of the highest productivity video creators is also the most experimental with various sites and blogs to promote his work. Here’s his comment about some of the pay-for-content sites. To see his blog, click on the link on the right (I have a perpetually link to his video blog. Revver is king. I’ve made…

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Wall Street Journal Covers New “Pay for Content” Video Sites

ByNalts

Highlights from a recent Wall Street Journal article on the pay-for-content online video sites… New Web Sites Pay for Clips By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO July 12, 2006 In his spare time, Patrick Sell, a 31-year-old marketing analyst, enjoys shooting short videos of well-dressed women strolling along New York City streets, then posting them on the…

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Blip.tv: Shocking Customer Service

ByNalts

There’s a whole range of customer service approaches, and the online video sites haven’t exactly figured that out. That’s become apparent on my blog where people have been known to gripe about slow responses and ignored e-mails. Here’s a stunning exception, and first impressions are lasting ones. Adriana, the star of “Blah, Blah, Blogs,” tells…

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Most Popular Online Video Sites (Nielsen/NetRatings)

ByNalts

Here’s a beefy Mercury News article about online video, with an emphasis on YouTube and its long journey toward profitability. It confirms that the YouTube folks are indeed thinking it would be good to make money, but are (in my opinion) way too paranoid about losing their cult-like appeal. Read my letter to YouTube’s founders to get…

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Online Video Ads Not Sustainable for the Long Term

ByNalts

Some highlights of a rather skeptical view of online video ads (with my thoughts below in the circle bullets). Writted by Tom Hespos, president of Underscore Marketing, for a recent Mediapost.com article: “I have a rather controversial stance on online video ads: I think a lot of people will make a lot of money in…