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]]> By: HBO Sets Flight of the Conchords Free On the Internet Winds ¦ Online Media Cultist http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/05/01/why-doesnt-vh1classiccom-want-to-share/comment-page-1/#comment-276 HBO Sets Flight of the Conchords Free On the Internet Winds ¦ Online Media Cultist Thu, 17 May 2007 15:56:22 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/05/01/why-doesnt-vh1classiccom-want-to-share/#comment-276 [...] good recent example of not getting it is VH1Classic.com’s choice to not allow classic music videos to be [...] [...] good recent example of not getting it is VH1Classic.com’s choice to not allow classic music videos to be [...]

]]> By: Eric Berlin http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/05/01/why-doesnt-vh1classiccom-want-to-share/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Eric Berlin Wed, 02 May 2007 07:55:43 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/05/01/why-doesnt-vh1classiccom-want-to-share/#comment-277 Sterfish, everything you write makes total sense... but I still think it's a mistake for media companies to rein in content. If it's easy enough and free to find elsewhere (as I showed very quickly with the R.E.M. video) there will be very little compelling reason for the end user to take the action to go back to the original media source. I totally agree that this is a major problem that media companies are now trying to solve. The entire nature of the monetizing of intellectual property is in flux. Which makes things crazy and exciting all at once! Sterfish, everything you write makes total sense… but I still think it’s a mistake for media companies to rein in content. If it’s easy enough and free to find elsewhere (as I showed very quickly with the R.E.M. video) there will be very little compelling reason for the end user to take the action to go back to the original media source.

I totally agree that this is a major problem that media companies are now trying to solve. The entire nature of the monetizing of intellectual property is in flux. Which makes things crazy and exciting all at once!

]]> By: Sterfish http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/05/01/why-doesnt-vh1classiccom-want-to-share/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Sterfish Wed, 02 May 2007 02:49:54 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/05/01/why-doesnt-vh1classiccom-want-to-share/#comment-275 It's certainly not surprising that VH1classic.com doesn't allow you to embed videos. A lot of video sites owned by big media don't let you do that. While I agree that these big media companies want to keep the videos on the site to get people to visit and stay on their site, I think there is another reason as well. Keeping the videos on their site keeps other companies from making money off them. None of the ad revenue that blogs and other sites make from posts with embedded YouTube videos goes to YouTube. By letting people embed most of their videos, YouTube allows a lot of people to make money off them. You get things like MOG's TV feature (http://mog.com/watch/tv) which filters hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos about music based on your musical tastes and allows you to watch them on their site. It's not a partnership with YouTube or anything like that. It's just a really creative way to exploit embedding. As cool as things like this are, big media companies are not willing to let other companies make money off them without getting anything in return. To them, the positives of making their videos portable are outweighed by the potential to lose out on potential revenue streams. If and when YouTube learns to make money from what they do, maybe the big companies will try to catch up. For now, though, they will be stuck behind the curve. It’s certainly not surprising that VH1classic.com doesn’t allow you to embed videos. A lot of video sites owned by big media don’t let you do that.

While I agree that these big media companies want to keep the videos on the site to get people to visit and stay on their site, I think there is another reason as well. Keeping the videos on their site keeps other companies from making money off them.

None of the ad revenue that blogs and other sites make from posts with embedded YouTube videos goes to YouTube. By letting people embed most of their videos, YouTube allows a lot of people to make money off them. You get things like MOG’s TV feature (http://mog.com/watch/tv) which filters hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos about music based on your musical tastes and allows you to watch them on their site. It’s not a partnership with YouTube or anything like that. It’s just a really creative way to exploit embedding.

As cool as things like this are, big media companies are not willing to let other companies make money off them without getting anything in return. To them, the positives of making their videos portable are outweighed by the potential to lose out on potential revenue streams.

If and when YouTube learns to make money from what they do, maybe the big companies will try to catch up. For now, though, they will be stuck behind the curve.

]]> By: Eric Berlin http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/05/01/why-doesnt-vh1classiccom-want-to-share/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Eric Berlin Tue, 01 May 2007 16:24:13 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/05/01/why-doesnt-vh1classiccom-want-to-share/#comment-274 Webmaster X - YouTube <b>will</b> make money (they're experimenting with pre-roll and post-roll now). We're all waiting to see how, and then the industry will be forever changed. Short wait, at the least! Webmaster X – YouTube will make money (they’re experimenting with pre-roll and post-roll now). We’re all waiting to see how, and then the industry will be forever changed. Short wait, at the least!

]]> By: Webmaster X http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/05/01/why-doesnt-vh1classiccom-want-to-share/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Webmaster X Tue, 01 May 2007 16:07:01 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/05/01/why-doesnt-vh1classiccom-want-to-share/#comment-273 YouTube grew huge on that model but they made no fucking money you dolt. VH1 isn't building a craptacular site to sell to Google so why the hell would they want to pay for bandwidth so idiots like you can put their valuable files all over the internet? I'm waiting YouTube grew huge on that model but they made no fucking money you dolt. VH1 isn’t building a craptacular site to sell to Google so why the hell would they want to pay for bandwidth so idiots like you can put their valuable files all over the internet?

I’m waiting

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