I don't have any more of a problem with this than I do the Sponsored Ads on Google.
Like Brook, I filter them out, but a lot of people don't - so Google make billions of dollars of profit from them and from Adsense ads on other sites. As I noted here before, Google's revenue and profit were up a third and a quarter respectively in Q3 2008 largely off the back of these things. You're wrong if you think YouTube popular and featured videos aren't already gamed and bought. It's a stinking den of corruption in there. You should see the kind of bullshit tricks that 'viral' production and advertising companies pull to get their videos featured. This is just making an honest and open auction of it. If I had a client or a video that I think should get top billing for a niche subject, instead of trying to orchestrate some kind of incredibly spammy and unethical view-ramping campaign (and risk getting caught and deleted), I could just buy a sponsored slot. On a site where something like 10 hours of video are being uploaded every minute, that's about as organic and fair a way of buying attention as I can imagine. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 12-Nov-08, at 3:38 PM, sull wrote: interesting. imagine this together with crowdfunding efforts. you can tap your network/community to raise money to get your video noticed. maybe it's an important video message, or for promoting independent artists or for local political campaigns etc etc. i see nothing wrong with this. it is, afterall, almost 2009. we should be ready to accept such net video concepts. @sull On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:07 PM, schlomo rabinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Ok, I promise to stop emailing the list for the rest of the day. I know > I've been kinda talky today. > BUT! I thought you may want to read about how you can pay for placement on > the Youtubes. > > <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ youtube_puts_placement_of_user.php> > > Personally, this makes my stomach queasy, but you may be into paying for > placement. > > Schlomo Rabinowitz > http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress > http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking > AIM:schlomochat > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
