Being featured on Veoh may not be as potent as it used to be. Whenever I sign into Veoh, the "featured videos" that play for me are based on my recent viewing history and coments.
This means that I have mostly Japanese Pop videos which consumes most of my viewing time. YouTube is very vacuous. One techie told me a couple weeks ago that he could set a program in his computer to click on his video every few seconds. He said this would put him up on the "most viewed" YouTube page but he'd only be there for a few minutes. YouTube would check his "hits" and see they all came from his program. Beyond that, reading comments on YouTube and checking out the profile of the "members" posting them reveals that 90% (or more) have 0 videos that they themselves have posted. Add to this percentage all those who post clips from commercial shows and you will find that YouTube's audience are overwhelmingly "consumers". Most of them are vacuous "airheads" which is verifiable by the literacy and intelligence of their comments which frequently are simple statements like "Cool!" and/or "I like this." etc. That is why I prefer Veoh & Blip. At least most of the viewers there are way above the YouTube crowd. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker www.RandyWickerReporting.blogspot.com Hoboken, NJ (One mile from the center of the known world!) --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Cammack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good luck with that! :D > > Are they featuring just one of your videos, or are they planning to > rotate them? That might make a difference as far as which of your > videos collect hits. > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Smith" <edd666666@> wrote: > > > > Hi I may be able to give you some additional feedback after tomorrow. > > Veoh.com is featuring my One Minute Motivator series of vids on > their site > > tomorrow. These are short "success/motivation" vids of less that 2 > min and > > in the vids is a listing of my website to go for more info. Now > less than > > 10% of the general population is into "success/motivation", so I > expect that > > only a small percent of the people seeing one of the vids will view the > > other 7 One Minute Motivators currently listed there, but we will > see. Also > > it is my guess that the bulk of the people visiting video websites > are young > > men, and they tend not to be into "success/motivation". So while I am > > thrilled veoh.com is featuring the One Minute Motivator, I can't help > > wondering why they picked it given what I think is their viewership. > > Anyway, once I get some sense of the numbers of views, and then website > > visits and sign ups for my free email version of the One Minute > Motivator, I > > will come back to the group and share my numbers. Thanks, Ed. > > > > On 3/28/07, Bill Cammack <BillCammack@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > > > "Heath" <heathparks@> wrote: > > > > > > > > We've discussed this a bit but I had a very personal experiece > > > > recently that proved (at least to me) an interesting viewship > "fact". > > > > > > > > Being "featured" somewhere does not mean you will gain a jump in > > > > views to your other videos. Recently one of my posts was featured on > > > > the Yahoo video page, I was one there for over a day, that video did > > > > great numbers by far my most popular video, over 8,000 views which > > > > for me...is HUGE. Anyway, I was really pumped but I noticed that > > > > while I did gain some subscribers I didn't gain a whole lot of views > > > > on my other videos. > > > > > > > > Being featured was great but unless you are being featured all the > > > > time, it doens't appear to mean a thing really. > > > > > > > > So I am curious, what has been other's experience's? And why is it > > > > that it never seems to translate? I mean I know if I see something I > > > > like I check out other stuff. Am I alone in that? > > > > > > > > Is my 15 minutes of fame already up? How many licks does it take to > > > > get to the center of a tootise roll tootise pop? I need to know! > > > > > > > > Heath > > > > http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com > > > > > > The reason it doesn't translate is that there's nothing to translate. > > > > > > "Featuring" puts a video in front of someone's face. The way the > > > culture works, if you put it in front of their face, they might click > > > it. That doesn't mean they know or care anything about what they're > > > clicking on. They just want to see what's interesting, OR they like > > > looking at whatever's "featured". > > > > > > It's not the same thing as saying to a crowd of people "Hey! I have a > > > show about XYZ! Would you all like to watch it?" and they say "yes" > > > and you give them the URL, and they're actually invested in the topic > > > or your character or whatever the draw of the video is. All they want > > > to see is what they want to see right now. The "fame" part comes from > > > the being selected, not from how many people click on it. > > > > > > It's similar to the reason why paparazzi shows stay on the air > > > indefinitely. There's a large group of people that want to know > > > what's popular right now. They want to know who got drunk at the > > > party and whose clothes fell off. They want to know who cut their > > > hair and who's coming out of rehab today. Once they get their fix, > > > it's time for the next fix. > > > > > > This is why advertisers should be careful about attempting to estimate > > > popularity and/or ability to draw an audience from stats generated > > > from things like being featured and piggybacking on highly- viewed > > > videos with "video responses". Someone might get 300,000 hits on > > > their video, but that's only because it was a video response to a clip > > > that got 2,000,000 hits. It indicates NOTHING about their ability to > > > draw, maintain and grow an audience, and as you point out, it doesn't > > > even mean that people will check out the rest of their series after > > > landing on their featured video. > > > > > > -- > > > Bill C. > > > http://TheLab.ReelSolid.TV > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >
