Hollywood professionals moving to Youtube.

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Aspiring Mogul

Celebrities like Madonna and Tom Hanks are moving to Youtube, squeezing out the amateurs. While this is bad for amateurs, this is good for the viewing public, because they get better content. For better or worse, this fits with the global trend of increasing competition in just about all industries.

That said, I am still not convinced Youtube will generate big money for anyone, and I think something else will come along the internet that will replace Youtube and bring in substantial revenue - business history seems to work like that.
 
I don't see this as a bad thing at all... especially if you can get into a "related video" next to theirs, your views have the potential to dramatically increase.
 
knightly said:
I don't see this as a bad thing at all... especially if you can get into a "related video" next to theirs, your views have the potential to dramatically increase.
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I'm pretty sure the "related" views will quickly become links to other properties owned by the same producer, or other high-paying peer. After all, why would companies paying millions of dollars allow other "similar" or competing shows to ride on their coattails? The article already mentions how YouTube's altered their search results to artificially direct traffic in a certain way.

There's nothing wrong with a higher bar being set for YT producers across the board, but not at the expense of a level playing field. You can make the most compelling, innovative video show on the planet, but noone's gonna watch what they cannot find. If "big-business" productions buy out the search results... not so cool.
 
Scare Tactics... YAFI produced for a competition here. 186,000 views on youtube based almost entirely on the title.
 
How many hits would you have got, if whomever (prodco-X, example) owns the tv show had a deal with YT where all searches for "scare tactics" are automatically considered to mean "scare tactics tv show owned by prodco-X" by the search engine?
 
Quote from that article:

"Over the past year, Driving Sports TV’s popularity and revenues have plummeted as much as 90 per cent, Mr. Douthit said, as viewers abandoned him for slicker, more professional and better-marketed fare that’s suddenly streaming onto YouTube."

So... this person didn't think to create slicker and more professional content on his own?
 
Plus, I doubt the big names will be doing their youtube stuff on a weekly basis, which the successful youtubers tend to do. This probably won't make a difference in the grand scheme of things.
 
It's a business, and that's what everyone seems to forget. Google/YouTube is in business to make a profit, and advertisers will spend more money for big names, because big names attract viewers. It's the entertainment industry; the word industry indicates the manufacture of a product for the purpose of generating revenue.

This may be the opportunity for another entrepreneur to start the next "YouTube" or for a site like Vimeo to branch out.
 
Exactly... But those youtubers don't seem to understand that this doesn't mean they're losing their viewers.
 
Of course it's a business. :rolleyes:

There's nothing wrong with slicker, more entertaining shows setting new standards and capturing market share based on their ability to gain a bigger audience by being better than every other choice available.

It just blows when all of a sudden they become the only game in town, 'cos that's all you're allowed to find. How can potential new content providers compete with that?
 
Zensteve said:
It just blows when all of a sudden they become the only game in town, 'cos that's all you're allowed to find. How can potential new content providers compete with that?
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By being better, and/or by doing something that no one else is doing, but which the customers want.This is a story as old as humanity.
 
Aspiring Mogul said:
By being better, and/or by doing something that no one else is doing, but which the customers want.This is a story as old as humanity.
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But it doesn't matter how good something is, if you don't have access to the market.

Should pay-for-play be legal, because upcoming bands could always just start up their own radio network if they really wanted to get heard...
 
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