Comments on: YouTube To Give Cash Back To Its Community

By: sellsius°

sellsius° — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:54:59 +0000

Isn’t that happening now—passionate people posting their videos?
With money at stake, more will contribute, thus diluting the overall quality, which is a point I think you made in your post. I agree.
But I also think the money will attract creative types. So I think you get more videos but also more videos contributed by creative types. Look at it like a YouTube film festival.

Now, if you have more content, with quality diluted, you will not want to bear more than a few seconds of advertising. Perhaps the voting will really come into play and you won’t even bother to click play unless some threshold of votes is registered so as to save you the grief of another ad.

And I am sure some creative techie will come up with a way to bypass the ad. No?

Thanks for stopping by Drew.

By: Drew Meyers

Drew Meyers — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:14:56 +0000

Thanks for the H/T!
I don’t think ads on YouTube will be too distracting if they implement them correctly. But I don’t think users with money as a primary motive will produce compelling content — the great content will come from those passionate about contributing without being rewarded with monetary incentives. If it were me making the decision, I’d identify the power contributors and give them some monetary compensation for all their work thus far.

By: Web adsWeblog

Web adsWeblog — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:27:58 +0000

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