Google Shares Ad Wealth With Videographers 75
Rockgod writes to let us know that Google has begun sharing advertising revenue with the makers of a popular video clip. From the article: "[This] is a groundbreaking deal that could drive up the costs of competing in the fledgling video-sharing sector. The search company has agreed to turn over most advertising revenue generated by the latest video from Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, creators of 'The Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment,' according to Peter Chane, a senior product manager for Google Video."
Good on them! (Score:1)
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shockwave player link [google.com]
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wait - not yet. Imagine: 10,004 cocks of slashdotters ejaculating 25 litres into the air at once, like the fountains of hope & prosperity. You'll get money for it.
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Brilliant... (Score:2, Insightful)
Congrats google, you've set the stage for a new era in digital video on the web. If the creators have the monetary incentive to produce their film, then there's a good chance that they start producing higher quality videos more often. Now, we just have to ask ourselves, why didn't youtube think of this in the first place?!?
Re:Brilliant... (Score:5, Insightful)
Elephant Dreams did ok, a full length film made in that way could do really well and could make a little money, but it won't get as many hits as someone just making a really cheap video of themselves lighting a fart (...if anyone has a video of this, do post a link), not to mention the fact that I could make about 3000 of the really low quality type videos in the time really talented people could make another ED.
What I'm trying to say is that I think this will lead to more really low quality videos which try and caputre a "funny" moment and then just send out thousands of links to it
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That said, even funny viral videos tend to lose their humor when it's been converted to such low-bitrate flash that you can't even make out the above mentioned anal explosion. I cer
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That could be fixed by a simple Review board, videos could be selected to send to the Board by something akin to Slashdot's moderation system with emphasis given to meta-moderation by the board to downgrade the value of those who vote for 'fart lighting' videos.
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For less than $10,000, you could have a high-quality, professional 1080p HD camera with great lenses, a nice professional lighting setup, a sound mixer, wireless microhpones, a high-quality editing bay, some good software, and one of those fancy French berets directors used to wear. And of course, if you know how to cut corners (or are willing to sacrifice some quality), that number could easily move down to $5 - $6,000.
You co
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Here's a pic of my character [chrisdidthis.com] , I'd add a couple of more guys like him and start to come up with some scripts. I was thinking of making JimBob (the guy in the pic) really clean cut, and having two oth
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> the web" um...this has already existed, it's called Revver
Um..it's not about doing stuff first, it's about marketing - making it noticable and available to the general public. Who the hells has heard of Revver?
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats"
-Howard Aiken
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Not only that, they'll be likely to limit the content to Google, whose massive advertiser base is likely to generate more income than all the YouTube knockoffs that have popped up.
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If Google's bet pays off eventually, they're in for another big pay day in the future.
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New Precedent (Score:1)
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Check out Naked Britney [google.com]
I'm sure you get the picture.
The problem with this (Score:4, Interesting)
In the numerous other places it's been tried (google is far from the first here), is that there's nothing stopping 500 people from uploading the same popular video.
Then Google gets to become arbitrator and try to pin down who the video really belongs to.
This should be fun.
Another problem. (Score:2)
How well does google filter duplicate results now? (Score:2)
Yeah, about that well.
Plus, telling you who was first doesn't tell you who owns it...
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MPAA? (Score:2)
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As sarcastic as I was trying to seem, I bet there is probably someone sitting there thinking...man, that is a *great idea.
Whoa! (Score:1)
Time to get those Rob and Kath honeymoon vids up on Google Video! =)
"uh! uh! uh! uh! uh! uh! UH! UH! UH! UH! UHHHHH!! AAAAHHHHH!!"
"Oh that was awesome, Babe!"
"Uhhhhhh huhhh huh-uhhhhhh..."
"So many cool electronic gadgets and anime vids in one place, at such prices! Thanks for carrying them up the stairs, Babe."
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Of course, Rob did submit the same story, but apparently it was rejected corporate sponsorship. Oh, that the world would be modeled after Slashdot!
Missing the real story! (Score:1)
On the other hand, we have a couple of geeks who set up a cascade of diet-coke fountains and made a video from it! This is Slashdot! It's meant to be "news for nerds, stuff that matters"! What could be more important than violent chemical reactions?
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Physical reactions, involving members of the opposite sex.
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The real story is the recent stealth censoring. (Score:2)
A lot of the more Famous YT'ers have been getting revenue for thier work from various places. One of those a vlogger called littleloca.
In a recent video [youtube.com] littleloca was complaining that too many people where cheating and pushing her down off the popular pages (most viewed/most discussed/etc).
Another vlogger posted a video [youtube.com] about how littleloca herself had cheated for some time and was still cheating. In fa
I wonder (Score:1)
Colbert to get his wish? (Score:1)
Student Filmmakers (Score:2)
Prior to this my film group has been holding out and hosting the videos ourselves because of the crappy quality of the flash videos. But with this we might actually be able to make some money so our next film could have a budget. As of now everything comes out of our pockets. We just made a tv pilot on ten dollars.
Affil [chamber525.com]
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Remove the odd camera angle coffee mug shot
what's with all the "sweetie", is that the only way of addressing anyone you all know?
Connie Chung was from China. Not Japan. And Buddha?
Well, I've given you enough help, and there is still no shower scene yet. Sorry but this is obviously written by people that haven't had real jobs yet so your people speak like amateur actors. I'd recommend watching more TV and get some volunteers that have been around other people besides drama geeks. At
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MythBusters (Score:1)
Filmmaking is like bartending (Score:2)
Or life with a MBA.
It's 95% how your present it, not what it is...
Could this mean a reduction in ad-spam models? (Score:1)
Groundbreaking my ass.... (Score:1)
Wha? (Score:1)
Porn advertisements... (Score:1)
Two Words, "Smart Pricing" (Score:1)
Is video traffic any more likely to convert...?
Conspiracy Theories (Score:2)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgQ9kvLGXS8 [youtube.com]