Video Blogging Week: The Future of Video Blogging
Is YouTube about to put an end to video blogging with their new re-design? Is there a future for vloggers on smaller sites like Vloggerheads? Watch the video and see what I think. videobloggingweek2009.blogspot.com www.businessinsider.com
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January 21st, 2010 at 12:11 pm
In football (Rugby League) in Australia the Maltese Falcon has quite a different meaning.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Thanks – The changes here, once the were unveiled, were so minor, I wonder if it’s actually helped their revenue. I hope so.
January 21st, 2010 at 1:16 pm
I would pay 25 bucks a year for that kind of membership “It’s the sutf that dreams are made of”. Love your videos Kenrg. I wish I had a partner account lol. anyways great video keep them coming.
January 21st, 2010 at 2:12 pm
That’s what they’ve been trying, but they’re still losing about a million dollars each day. I’m sure they’re trying to sell as much ad space, at the best rate they can get. Hopefully the new changes will help them with that.
January 21st, 2010 at 2:23 pm
agreed! I never go past my subscription page (which I assume is the default for most if not all YouTubers?) I’ve not looked at the most discussed/rated etc pages for a very long time.
January 21st, 2010 at 2:30 pm
As we have just seen, the big hullabaloo was basically for nothing. Of course the changes meant nothing; we can still view our subscriptions, comment to each, etc – all the things that formed the community. Yes, we must support the company that provides all this; including helping to make them profitable (even if it means paying a small membership fee someday).
January 21st, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Kenrg, outside of the fact that I feel that vbloggers will always be able to vblog and we will always have a community and that nothing YOutube has done has deterred that…outside of all of that, Google has made no money. If people want to vblog here, I recommend full on support otherwise, Youtube will be gone and we will all miss it here. ~Raven
January 21st, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Seeing the redesign now, frankly, if nobody had told me there were any changes, I doubt I’d notice them. As usual, a huge big deal about nothing much.
January 21st, 2010 at 3:27 pm
I don’t have a problem with YouTube’s redesign. Google owns this hotel and we are guests who get to have a room of our own for free. Not a bad deal. Let’s be good guests and support YouTube.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:23 pm
I’m greatly unimpressed by the end of the world, if this was truly that. Another big deal over a big yawn is the end result (as usual).
January 21st, 2010 at 5:06 pm
(PS) Funny thing that Google was announcing pay-per-view material on YouTube just as I was typing my above comment. “With respect to how it’ll get monetized, our first priority is on the advertising side. We do expect over time to see micropayments and other forms of subscription models coming as well,” says Eric Schmidt.
Anyway, this particular “end of YouTube” seems to be rather unspectacular.
January 21st, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Well, I’m taking my first look at the “New YouTube” and frankly, I don’t see what the big scare was about.. I have no problem with it at all. But still no easier way to find vloggers…
January 21st, 2010 at 6:05 pm
I love The Maltese Falcon! That film is a classic and Bogart is the man! The book is also an amazing piece of writing. It’s what every who-done-it should be like.
What was the topic again? Oh yeah, Vlogs or something. I would prefer vlogs be in a separate searchable area. I would watch more of them if they were split off from everything else and easier to find.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:08 pm
(2/2) They could charge for HD-quality viewing, downloadable videos, profile banners and other visual customisations, custom thumbnail pics, the ability to write longer comments or maintain a written blog on your profile, or maybe just a “no ads” option for the entire site (though this might alienate advertisers). You could tie these up into nice little feature packages, or tiered memberships, or even one-time payments for the better HD content.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:31 pm
(1/2) Interesting ideas here (especially the whole falconry concept), but I’m not sure if paying for increased storage is the way to go. Even if amateur content is increasingly marginalised, YouTube will still want to have it, just to assure their dominance in the market. Basic video watching must remain free in any case. I can see them charging for perks, though, that are more removed from the core functionality of the site:
January 21st, 2010 at 6:38 pm
I think it’d be good if they kept what they currently offer for free the same. There are other sites (like viddyou) who offer a subscription that’s yearly based ($5-$10 for the year) in return for more upload space. That, I could see being reasonable. For partners maybe that subscription fee could be deferred through the profit from monetized videos.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Kenrg – Exactly, they haven’t abandoned the ‘vlog’ function of their site, though it may not be the core focus. I personally like that the vlogging ‘community’ is sort of underground.
MyCluein – I’m not sure YouTube is quite as evil as you seem to be making it out to be but they are a corporation and corporations do exist to make profit.
January 21st, 2010 at 7:06 pm
So much on the web has been given away for free, that companies are having a hard time breaking through that perceived constant. Newspapers and magazines have always made money through ads, but the vast majority still have a cover price….and you don’t get to create and post your own content in them.
January 21st, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Right – They spend that (and more) for one evening’s entertainment, or on online games, etc., but once something is “free” it’s hard to convince folks that nothing is ever *really* free. As to the negative impact, I agree; as long as I have my subscription page, I don’t care what happens to the front page and main index.
January 21st, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Good vlog, sir. I don’t expect to see much of a negative impact on the community here, in fact, I actually think this might be a good thing. Money for YT and maybe make things a little harder for the masses to crash the party.
I would not be opposed to a subscription model. Your pricing is reasonable, maybe a bit low. I thinks it’s funny how that’s such a deal breaker for people. They spend more than that to see one movie at a theatre for 2 hours of entertainment. (more)
January 21st, 2010 at 8:30 pm
It was a gift from Bill K, many years ago. And if the kind folks at Maker’s want to send a coupon or two my way, it would be much appreciated, but not necessary.
January 21st, 2010 at 9:22 pm
if YT really “cared about us” they would have more people dedicated to customer service & less to tweaking the interface, videos & channels disappear without due process or appeal, YT also blocks vids from view in different counties too, not that YT is “bad” but they don’t really “care about us,” it’s a commercial venture designed to milk our content for pennies & in return we use it to express ourselves, quid pro quo
January 21st, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Where did you get the Maltese Falcon? And how much is Makers Mark paying you for sponsorship?
January 21st, 2010 at 10:25 pm
True; there’s a lot more to “original user content” than just traditional vlogs. As to my made-up membership fees, I don’t know… Could be interesting to see if they ever do make such a distinction.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:49 pm
not everybody on youtube is a vlogger ?
i myself make slideshows, oh and also not everybody lives in the usa, as makers of slideshows we dont get the subscriber base that some vloggers do, and slideshows have limited appeal, what with youtube having such a large base of topics to choose from, and i feel that if a person is not infront of the camera,
should we be subjected to the same amount say as a vlogger $ 5 , or should we be charged a different amount ?