So Many Video Sites, So Few Uploaders?
We need to take Ms. Bogatin’s recent Zdnet article to task. Note: it’s difficult to tell where she’s getting the numbers as the one link within that article points to another story she had posted June 17th, with quotes from NYT, which indicate YouTube’s upload traffic is 35,000 per day..?!?
“There are 173 online video plays, including 85 that host and share videos, according to Om Malik’s “The coming Web video shakeout.” Malik traces the challenges of copyright infringement, infrastructure costs and under monetization in support of his projected shakeout in the video sharing landscape. In YouTube’s case, the average user is watching the content, not generating it for while YouTube is now serving 50 million videos per day to six million unique users daily, only 50,000 videos are being uploaded per day; the ratio of uploaded videos to watched videos is less than 1%.
Only 50,000 new videos are being uploaded per day.. hmmm. Using her 1% of uploaded to watched ratio, consider then that perhaps 500 decent clips are coming online (at YouTube Alone!) every single day. As this ramps up into mass scale there will be an unbelievable amount of video content selection. Yes the space for host sites is crowded, there will be mergers and failures (Om Malik’s point is dead-on), but make no mistake the indie web video revolution is already in full motion.
So much proven potential, so many uninformed naysayers.. 
- Also of interest - so says the machine:
Web Video News Coming in Waves
Mike Arrington at Tech Crunch always has some great digs on the web 2.0 space and with streaming video (finally) blazing into the mainstream he has posted a few good pointers there over the last few days. + PalTalk is set to go live with a new social networking service designedZiff Davis Launches Video Syndication Program
The Ziff Davis Enterprise Web Buyer's Guide announced it has launched a new Video Syndication Program designed to help technology marketers take advantage of the emergence of new media by syndicating and generating leads from their valuable promotional videos on the premier Ziff Davis Enterprise network of Web sites. Developed andNew Video Ad Network Service
Advertising.com announced a new video ad network it says will supply about 61 million impressions per month to reach-starved media buyers. “It’s a combination of really large portal-like sites and some smaller sites with great content,” said Mollie Spilman, Advertising.com’s chief marketing officer. “What we’re finding with advertisers isTips on How to Succeed with Online Video
TubeMogul has released a free report entitled Web Video Marketing - Best Practices. The report starts out with some various statistics supporting the claims that online video is essentially where its at right now. If you have current ad representation for your video content, this is a great report toTop Ten Video Sharing Websites
Light Reading published an exhaustive review of the current online video space: ... the sheer volume of video sharing sites that have come online in the past 18 months suggests that the online video trend won't be confined to something people do to entertain themselves on a coffee break. To wit,Trend Spotting on The Daily Show - Too Funny
The Daily Shows 6:12 segment of “Trendspotting with Demetri Martin” from Comedy Central looks at social networking sites, particularly Myspace. Broadcast February 15th, 2006. Embedded Flash Player to view after the JumpSkype Launches New Prime Beta
Via the Skype Developers Journal: In short, it enables paid Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls. You can charge other people for calling you either a one-off fee or by the minute. Conversely, if you are the caller, you can call experts who charge for their services, and you can then payNBC Announces New Online Video Syndicate
NBC unveiled their new effort to distribute video content via the Internet. The initiative, National Broadband Company, or NBBC, involves syndicating video clips -- produced by NBC as well as other companies -- to a variety of Web sites, including those owned by their competitors. NBC is selling pre-roll adsCosmo TV - Create a Custom Streaming Widget
Here's a super-slick app. we just noticed via TechCrunch: "Cozmo.Tv wants to create a TV 2.0 by changing the way you consume online video from a random walk to personalized content. Next week at Always On, they will officially announce the new embeddable video widget they’ve been working on for theTechnorati Daily Vlog - What a Concept!
The first edition of Technorati's Daily Vlog rolled-out today with highlights of the hot sites, videos, photos, and games showing you what the world LIVE web is abuzz about at any given moment in time. Amazing idea.. somebody should tell RocketBoom to think about doing something like this..?!?
- Time Warp
- Future :: Vacation Alert - Ocean Front Relaxation
- Past :: Sony BMG Chooses Brightcove for Musicbox Video
