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We all know Steve Jobs is working at Disney. Now BUYING YouTube makes sense for Apple for that reason. I wasn't thinking of ownership in this post.
YouTube is still an awesome advertising distribution site. So, it'd make sense that someone would want to lock up an exclusive contract with YouTube to sell advertising there.
See http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fus...
"The company is rolling out a new ad platform that offers two main features--brand channels, where companies can create their own programming, and what YouTube is calling "participatory video ads," some of which direct users to the new brand channels."
In a few years, we'll be asking "will YouTube buy __________?"
How typical of Web 2.0 nutheads thinking who will grab it up, the better model for YouTube is to have everyone slice off a part...and if they can tame the copyright violational beast, it's on solid footing.
Yes, it's an unavoidable expense (especially for a video serving service), but it also can't be overcome with advertising revenue.
Buying it would be for novelty, not for business.
One minute on the SuperBowl is millions of dollars. Last I heard YouTube was spending about a million per month on bandwidth.
Yesterday, on June 27, 2006, it was announced that NBC (the television network, for those of you who don't bother to watch the small screen formerly referred to as "television" which is not yet primarly shown on your computer) announced that it will create an official NBC channel on YouTube that would include a "Fall Preview" area. In addition to marketing each others products, the channel would be used to promote other programming, such as "Saturday Night Live," >"The Office," etc. . . . . . But the most interesting aspect of this announcement was that NBC will launch a promotional contest for the "The Office, . . ."
Robert, I've been blogging about this for 2 months from the point that I first learned the term "User Generated Content" from you blog--
BTW--In one of your less controversial posts, you asked what your readers thought you should cover at PodCast.net--You might want to occasionally report on the intersection . . . convergence . . . (whatever you want to call it) between new media and old media (or Hollywood and Northern California Start-ups), as everything . . . (including I assume in the not to distant future, PodCast.net) is being bought by an "old media" (and publically traded) companies.
Right?
Also, it might be interesting for you to report on how these new distribution platforms are or will pay off for the talent guilds . . . or any talent which does not have an ownership interest in the platforms or distribution venue.
Until the audience, the bandwidth is there, and for that matter, it is as easy as popping in a dvd or turning on the television, I don't see this "new media" being that much of a threat to "Hollywood" anytime soon. There are still not enough people that want to sit in front of their laptops or computer screens to consume this crap and hope to be entertained or informed. Perhaps once cable companies get in on the act and see the value in offer vblogs as part of their "on demand" service we MIGHT be close to convergence. But, cable companies will have to see how they can monetize it. Again, util Joe Sixpack sees the value in it and can consume it as easily as he can a TV show or a rented DVD, Hollywood has little(I didn't say 'nothing) to worry about.
Re: #14--PodCast.net=PodTech.net. Sorry . . .
But Robert, I'm still interested in the answer to my question: How will the new distribution platforms (such as PodTech.net) pay for WGA, SAG, or DGA talent . . . or any talent which does not have an ownership interest in the platforms or distribution venue?
How will you ensure that the talent/content creators don't get "screwed"?
Also, it might be interesting for you to interview Patric Verrone, the president of the WGAwest (or antoher Guild Pres./Executive Director) on one of your PodTech.net . . . podcasts/episodes/moments.
http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=2174
But for now the primordial-soup New Media'ites will just cull up non-repped geek-level talent, going extreme niche, slapping ads on it...tinker-toying with the Amanda's and the Frank Ze's and the C List off-Hollywoods, all the while playing bandwidth distributional codec games and eternally whining about HD and other techie shop talk and how the masses "just don't get it".
All set to go into more detail, but well, it's already been said. From now on out, whatever LayZ says, I ditto endorse...without even looking, well maybe a few escape clauses, but yet to find any. Sorta like an actor committing to a Coen Brothers or Christopher Guest script, doesn't matter, don't even have to read it...sign, sign... :)
VH1 has "Web Junk", so in a way Cable is already there, MTV buying up iFilm, just America's Funniest Web Slop...and I could see YouTube the TV Show. But it's all so much hobbled-yarn SpikeTV fare, (well minus the most-excellently scripted Blade)...