> Hi Chris, > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:57:39AM +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > > I've just had an email from the good folks over at thedailymotion.com > > - who have heard about our viral video project. > > > > You sure about that site? > > It redirects to http://www.richvideos.com/ which is a searchspam site. > http://www.dailymotion.com/ is that what you really meant?
Yeah - sorry :-P > > It seems that they're big fans and users of Ubuntu, and would like to > > help out with the hosting/publishing our viral videos. > > > > This is going to sound negative, but I just don't know how else to word it. > > Whilst it's great to get distributors on board, I'm not convinced they're > the best "partner" for the site. Why not just release the video(s) on a > *.ubuntu.com domain or from an existing site. Then again they can be > uploaded to any site of this ilk (youtube, heavy, blip.tv, ustream, and so > on) there's no real need to tie yourself to one of them. Hosting is (in my > opinion) the _least_ of your worries. True, but positioning is ;-) I thought it'd probably be a good idea to enter into dialogue with these people to see what we can do for one and other - don't you? > The primary goal is to get them made in the first place I'd have thought. > > How about setting out some themes or goals for video content on the wiki? Or > maybe come up with some scenarios that _you_ would like to see made in > video. Coming up with those ideas always seems to be the tricky thing IMO. > I can see why you'd think that, but that isn't really the angle that I was coming at this from the 'if we build it they will come angle :-P ' I've got some ideas about how to move forward with getting some quality marketing vids made, but I think success may depend upon getting people interested in making video as well as people interested in Ubuntu. I think targeting video sharing community for their help is probably a good idea. > You could also schedule a meeting on irc to get people talking about it, or > maybe add it to the agenda for an existing (Marketing?) meeting? > Good Idea :-D > Cheers, > Al. > -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
