Well said Randy - in total agreement - Nathan Miller www.bicycle-sidewalk.com --- humancloner1997 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The "number" of people who post videos online fails > to differentiate > between those who do so regularly and seriously > versus those who shoot > a few nonsensical videos & post them only now and > then. > There is a huge number of people who only put a few > videos online and > then simply stop posting or disappear. > I'm amazed at the large percentage of people who I > subscribe to at > various sites who literally go 6 to 9 months without > posting one new > video and the equally large number of "users" who > simply no longer exist. > Do some research of your own. Check out "other > videos" by a user, > look at when they joined & how many videos they > post. > Most people do it on a whim, get no response & lose > interest. In > fact, consistent posters who have real video skills > frequently go for > weeks/months between posts. > So this 10 million figure is totally misleading. > Sometimes, people > make their videos private so only certain people can > view them. I > suspect a disproportionate number of people posting > videos on the > Internet are teenagers who have grown up in the new > video age. They > are the ones who appear to have made MySpace so big. > Actually, the number of serious content producers > are few and far between. > > Randolfe (Randy) Wicker > Hoboken, NJ > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Brook Hinton" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It's 14 percent of those shooting their own video. > It's all in the > > actual (short and easy to digest) report: > > > > > http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/Pew_Videosharing_memo_Jan08.pdf > > > > > > Brook > > > > On 1/10/08, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Oh is it 14% of the 22% who shoot some video? > Even so that would > still be > > > getting on for > > > 10 million people? > > > > > > Are there really that many people posting > videos? If so I admit > to being > > > shocked, Id have > > > thought the net would seem a bit different if > there were that > many, but > > > maybe my sense > > > of reality on this isue is all wrong. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Steve > Watkins" <steve@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Nice to hear such things. > > > > > > > > I cant quite believe some of those number > sthough. If 14% of > Americans > > > posted soe > > > video > > > > online, isnt that like 42 million people or > something? Surely > thats not > > > right, and its > > > either a > > > > bogus number of badly explained there, could > be 14% of some smaller > > > subset of > > > > Americans? > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andrew > Baron <andrew@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > "According to net measurement firm Nielsen > Online, some > online video > > > > > sites have doubled their audience since the > strike began at > the end > > > > > of October." > > > > > > > > > > "In September and October, Crackle enjoyed > an audience of > 1.2m users > > > > > which doubled to 2.4m in November and > December, it found." > > > > > > > > > > "Some 22% of Americans now shoot their own > videos, with 14% > of them > > > > > posting at least some of that video > online." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7180889.stm > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have > been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Brook Hinton > > film/video/audio art > > www.brookhinton.com > > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > > > > >
