YouTube: When All Else Fails… Become iTunes
This week YouTube’s founder, Steve Chen, said he hoped to have the free music video download service running on his website within 18 months.
Source: SMH.COM.AU, “YouTube Kills the Video Star.”
Similar Posts
What Will Matter About Online Video in 2011: Top 10 List
ByNalts
The space called “online video” is as broad as its players: online-advertisers, mobile technology, content creators, media properties, networks, cable-television providers, startups and individual YouTube “weblebrities.” But let’s not miss the fact that while I’ve been writing about “online video” for 5 plus years, I don’t likely have 5 more to go. As I mentioned…
advertising | Blogs on Video | book | Future of Online Video | marketing | Online Video | Video Advertising | Video Business | YouTube
Ad Blindness and Online Video
ByNalts
The more we surf online video the more savvy we become about content versus advertising. A marketer recently told me he was pleased by the impressions he got from a YouTube homepage advertising buy, but…” I finished his sentence for him.. “your featured video didn’t get a lot of views.” I told him we’ve been…
Cool Tips and Hacks from Fellow Online-Video Author
ByNalts
So it’s this Woodstock of social media, with web-only attendance. Yeah I think I’ve got that right… Steve Garfield, our favorite, provides us with some actionable tips courtesy of CedarStage Marketing. Garfield, videoblogging pioneer and author of Get Seen, promised numerous tips for putting videos online, and he “did not disappoint.” He emphasized that you don’t…
Interactive Video: Click to Learn More
ByNalts
We’ve long heard stories about how interactive t.v. will allow us to “click the lamp on a Seinfeld episode and find out where to buy it.” But here’s the best example I’ve seen: Lord of the Rings. Click on anyone and read about them. You’ll need Quicktime. Thanks to Steve Garfield for finding that one.
Don’t Buy YouTube: Bloggers Debate
ByNalts
Interesting article by ZDNet’s Digital Micro-Markets (DMM) that outlines the “top 5 reasons not to buy YouTube.” Here are DMM’s reasons, and WillVideoForFood (WVFF) responses. I wanted to post this on the comments section of the ZDNet blog, but it wasn’t working for me. Watch out- WillVideoforFood (WVFF) is actually standing up for YouTube on…
Who Are You?
ByNalts
Got 5-10 minutes to fill out a brief survey so I know who’s watching and reading? Click here. I couldn’t customize the questions, so here’s what I’m most after (and maybe you can comment below). Are you a creator, advertiser, viewer, media, industry watcher, etc? (All that apply). What are you interested in most? Contests, creator…
3 Comments
Comments are closed.
I think he just stepped in over his head and his mouth wrote a check he can’t cash. No one was making money off of viral videos when he started up YouTube, so there was no business incentive to stop YouTube. There are business incentives to nip YouTunes in the bud, I think.
get eefoofed!
Towards what pointless end, eefoofer? Why would I submit myself to the vagaries of a bunch of 14 year-old moderators who are more interested in preserving their fiefdoms than driving traffic to the site?
Pffft,I’d rather floss (and if you’ve seen my teeth in one of my recent videos, you’d know that’s saying something!)