Swedish Video Site Trouncing YouTube 79
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.
YouTube already localizes. (Score:5, Interesting)
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In other news... (Score:2, Interesting)
Errr.... RTFA? (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
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Why should what's funny in Shanghai be funny in Stockholm?
It isn't [necessarily].
That's why a local alernative is more funny than the global Youtube.
It took me a minute to understand it, too. Probably lost in translation.
- RG>
A Møøse once bit my sister ... (Score:2)
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.
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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
Roliga getter (Score:1, Offtopic)
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)
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 ba
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Bork Bork! (Score:1)
- RG>
This is just silly (Score:1)
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 talki
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Segregating? You're welcome to post and view videos on Bubblare any time you want!
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New Jersey Diner Trouncing Denny's (Score:4, Insightful)
that's not why (Score:2)
I'm from the west coast, and until 18 never had a cheesteak or scrapple, but I've asked for scrapple in Denny's- and decided to go somewhere else next time for just that lack..
(p.s. scrapple is disgusting)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple [wikipedia.org]
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I lived in Philly for 12 years, so I'm familiar with scrapple :) I'm not a big fan of it, but there was a place downtown that made a scrapple sandwich with bacon, sausage, egg, and cheese. It took 5 years off of my life, but that was one fine sandwich. Hey, what else are you going to do with the pig's head?
A real Philly cheesesteak is also something to behold... don't be put off by the Cheez-Wiz. Jim's on South Street is the way to go, but Tony Luke's on Oregon Ave. is also a stalwart, plus they have a sta
That's the best thing on the internet (Score:1)
YouTube (Score:1)
Nice misleading headline (Score:4, Funny)
*inside my house
It's not just the headline (Score:2)
It just means that a targeted site sells
"Around Here"? (Score:1)
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What's with all the... (Score:1)
I've never heard of this site (Score:5, Informative)
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They might have more traffic for a specific clip, but then again, bubblare.se might have tops 10,000 clips whereas youtube p
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Both you and the grandparent poster write English well enough that I would not have realised you were not native English-speakers if you hadn't told me. I wonder if this has something to do with your preferring a larger international site to a smaller local one?
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Why thank you, that was very kind :)
The truth is that all Swedes know how to read English backwards and forwards. In the swedish school-system there are three subjects that are the most basic ones, the ones that everyone has to pass in, math, Swedish and English. We start to learn English at age 9 and then never stop until we finish high school. Along with the fact that the vast majority of movies and tv-shows are undubbed American programs, this makes us very proficient. This is especially true for peopl
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Age of 30? I guess you are still in your teens and can't distinguish adult ages so well
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Seriously though, you write better English than I can verbally fumble through in French, and I'm an ex-Montrealer!
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Translation (Score:4, Funny)
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
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"Titta på filkmklipp" means "watch film clips"
"ladda up" is translated as "upload"
Otherwise you succeded well
You can translate words over at this site [nada.kth.se].
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Actually... (Score:2)
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)
It's hard to imagine (Score:5, Funny)
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international humor appeal (Score:2)
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+cas tle&hl=en [google.com]
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://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/22/12212
Damn those opportunistic Swedes....
Predicatably... (Score:3, Funny)
Say what you will about youtube, they do have rock solid servers.
I guess the article is right.... (Score:2)
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Again for clarification, the song is not about Hitler but about some slimy pickup artist, but every inserted clip of Hitler illustrates a line in the lyrics that could be interpreted that way. Way too funny.
Competition? (Score:1)
DailyMotion (Score:1)