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Swedish Video Site Trouncing YouTube
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CowboyNeal
on Sat Sep 30, 2006 09:28 AM
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from the for-various-definitions-of-trounce dept.
paulraps writes "Why should a video that's funny in Shanghai be funny in Stockholm? That's the explanation for why Bubblare.se, a Swedish competitor to YouTube, is getting around 30 times as many viewers for its Scandinavian video clips as the American market leader. 'Local beats global,' in this market, says managing director Oskar Kalmaru." Luckily for YouTube, the local YouTube-like site around here is YouTube itself.
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YouTube already localizes. (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Tuesday September 13 2005, @03:45PM)
In other news... (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://www.badgerville.org/)
Errr.... RTFA? (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.unity08.com/)
Still, I think Kalmaru's generalization is a hasty one to make. Here's one tried-and-true example [youtube.com] to the contrary, where it's just as funny even if you don't sprechen any Deutsch.
The amount of utter crap on Youtube (Score:4, Funny)
From my many, many hours spent wasting time on youtube I would honestly declare that at least half the clips on Youtube must be of chubby American wanna-be-famous kids looking like idiots while they dance around infront of their webcam to pop songs.
Roliga getter (Score:1, Offtopic)
(Last Journal: Tuesday February 11 2003, @02:39PM)
It starts out seeming to be a discussion of goat husbandry, how to feed
them, all that good stuff. But there's a kicker. And totally safe for
work and kids of all ages. And best: no subtle sarcasm or fake bedroom singing.
Much better than youtube.
Have always said this (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://www.pramari.com/)
At some point the market will be saturated here and as far as I know people in Europe either despise or don't care about Myspace. Now Youtube is certainly a different story and I do use them fairly often but they need to change their model.
Unfortunately I don't think that localizing their own service will really help because services like YouTube especially for audiences in Europe is based a large part on viral marketing. Without the word of mouth aspect they wouldn't be as big as they are and they simply don't have the word of mouth going for them abroad.
If they were smart they would buy this company and make it a YouTube network. Built off the YouTube bandwith and infrastructure running YouTube software but localized and started by a local company. Now that would work well to scale the YouTube model.
Bork Bork! (Score:1)
- RG>
This is just silly (Score:1)
(http://slashdot.org/~Frightening/journal/)
Of COURSE we find different cultures interesting and funny. It's the world-wide-web, remember? A lot of Americans watch the crazy Asian clips and a whole load of latinos watch the scantily clad white girls, even if they don't speak the same language. Why this segregative midset? It's refreshing to see what people everywhere are doing. You can watch a German playing a guitar, a hick from Wisonsin talking about her dirty habits and a fight in the Hong-Kong subway all in the same place. What's wrong with that?
If you only want to meet local people, try the nearest pub you freaks!
[joking]
New Jersey Diner Trouncing Denny's (Score:4, Insightful)
That's the best thing on the internet (Score:1)
YouTube (Score:1)
Nice misleading headline (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.seizurerobots.com/)
*inside my house
"Around Here"? (Score:1)
What's with all the... (Score:1)
I've never heard of this site (Score:5, Informative)
Translation (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.digitalhermit.com/)
Hem - Home
Logga In - Log in
Mest Sedda - Most viewed
Populära filmklipp - Popular film clips
Zappa Fram Klipp - Film Clips from (Frank) Zappa - he's big in Sweden
Pepsi Girl - Pepsi Girl
Titta Pa Filmklipp - Filmclip of Papa's tits
Ladda Up - Lather Up
Actually... (Score:2)
(http://mx-l0ve-f0r-y0uu.blogspot.com/)
As long as the servers are fast and the local lingo is supported, I don't really see why a international company's offering would be any worse than a local's.
A man getting hit in the crotch with a football (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Thursday February 15 2007, @08:40PM)
It's hard to imagine (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.rumorsdaily.com/)
international humor appeal (Score:2)
(http://www.ocean7motel.com/ | Last Journal: Monday May 07 2007, @07:50AM)
It's a japanese game show-- I first saw in Slovakia, that was briefly aired in the US as MXC or something, but horribly edited and sliced up-
that I now watch on google video, where whole length epsiodes are available and most of them are from a network in spain...
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=takeshis+ca
no- there is no international humor there...
Anyone notice? (Score:1, Troll)
Bubble Arse? Is it really called Bubble Arse?
Just interesting.
Wow! $45 billion! (Score:2)
(http://restifo.smugmug.com/)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/22/12212
Damn those opportunistic Swedes....
Predicatably... (Score:3, Funny)
(http://lar5.com/)
Say what you will about youtube, they do have rock solid servers.
I guess the article is right.... (Score:2)
Competition? (Score:1)
DailyMotion (Score:1)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Saturday April 03 2004, @02:29AM)
Re:One for Great Britain would be excellent. (Score:2, Insightful)
i know this is contraversial but have you thought of using your eyes ? they have this thing called thumbnails that give you a screenshot of the video