well said. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
