Comments on: Is YouTube the Future? http://www.cameronolthuis.com/2006/06/is-youtube-the-future/ Surfer and Internet Entrepreneur Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:33:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: karl long http://www.cameronolthuis.com/2006/06/is-youtube-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-5735 karl long Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:36:30 +0000 http://www.cameronolthuis.com/2006/06/is-youtube-the-future/#comment-5735 The advertisers sure are loving the youtube thing, panasonic is doing a film festival, NBC doing a "the office" promo competition, and even sony is doing one for bloggers to submit their videos to go to "comic-con" http://blog.experiencecurve.com/archives/more-youtube-panasonic-film-festival-nbc-the-office-promo IMHO most advertisers still have the "eyballs" mentality, they are not quite getting the engagement aspect of it. My favorite story on youtube was the "nobodys watching" pilot that never aired, and yet ended up getting watched a tonne on youtube. It was clever, original, different, which is why the network didn't air it, but that stuff does well on the "long tail". The advertisers sure are loving the youtube thing, panasonic is doing a film festival, NBC doing a “the office” promo competition, and even sony is doing one for bloggers to submit their videos to go to “comic-con”
http://blog.experiencecurve.com/archives/more-youtube-panasonic-film-festival-nbc-the-office-promo

IMHO most advertisers still have the “eyballs” mentality, they are not quite getting the engagement aspect of it. My favorite story on youtube was the “nobodys watching” pilot that never aired, and yet ended up getting watched a tonne on youtube. It was clever, original, different, which is why the network didn’t air it, but that stuff does well on the “long tail”.

]]> By: Cameron http://www.cameronolthuis.com/2006/06/is-youtube-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-5491 Cameron Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:17:27 +0000 http://www.cameronolthuis.com/2006/06/is-youtube-the-future/#comment-5491 Thanks Noah! Thanks Noah!

]]> By: Noah Winecoff http://www.cameronolthuis.com/2006/06/is-youtube-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-5488 Noah Winecoff Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:58:04 +0000 http://www.cameronolthuis.com/2006/06/is-youtube-the-future/#comment-5488 I waste so much time every day at YouTube. I agree that the quality of the videos are lacking. P.S. Great blog design/layout Cameron I waste so much time every day at YouTube. I agree that the quality of the videos are lacking.

P.S. Great blog design/layout Cameron

]]> By: Cameron http://www.cameronolthuis.com/2006/06/is-youtube-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-5371 Cameron Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:09:08 +0000 http://www.cameronolthuis.com/2006/06/is-youtube-the-future/#comment-5371 Good point, the video quality is awful on You Tube. You Tube is good because of all the eyeballs. An advertiser can get his message out to hundreds of thousands of people very easily, it's not so easy if you setup your own site for it. Also, the bigger point of the post was that it's better for advertisers to reach consumers via pull vs. push. No one likes being interupted with advertising messages (pushed on us). Good point, the video quality is awful on You Tube. You Tube is good because of all the eyeballs. An advertiser can get his message out to hundreds of thousands of people very easily, it’s not so easy if you setup your own site for it.

Also, the bigger point of the post was that it’s better for advertisers to reach consumers via pull vs. push. No one likes being interupted with advertising messages (pushed on us).

]]> By: Nirvana http://www.cameronolthuis.com/2006/06/is-youtube-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-5370 Nirvana Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:44:28 +0000 http://www.cameronolthuis.com/2006/06/is-youtube-the-future/#comment-5370 I certainly hope not. The videos posted on that site are unviewable and pixellated and complete cra--ahem--garbage. It's not too hard to get free webspace (or paid) yourself and host the video without resizing it to a resolution that it can't even been seen. I certainly hope not. The videos posted on that site are unviewable and pixellated and complete cra–ahem–garbage. It’s not too hard to get free webspace (or paid) yourself and host the video without resizing it to a resolution that it can’t even been seen.

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