Below is a very informational video from the Beet.tv Online Video Roundtable. The attendees address the question of “Should Online Video Advertising Matter to Publishers?” There’s a lot of back and forth about who or if to monetize the videos on a publisher’s site, or whether the videos are part of an overall package.
AOL Abandons User Generated Videos, leaves them for someone with more time and money to worry about, reports TechCrunch:
AOL is on a product-cutting spree. In addition to the shuttering of XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring, the company will also be shutting down the AOL Video Uploads service starting this week.
Users must move their videos prior to December 18, when the service closes for good and the videos will no longer be available. AOL is recommending that users transfer videos to Motionbox, a New York based video sharing and editing startup that we first covered in 2006.
Now that this particular online video bandwagon has been left in the hot desert sun to rot with the cactus of “good ideas past,” where will the big media caravan go next for inspiration? It’s not clear, but it better have guaranteed dollar signs around it.
Here’s some friendly advice: when visiting San Francisco, don’t ask for “Cabernet Sauvignon.”
For that matter, don’t order a “Pinot Noir,” a “Zinfandel,” and absolutely do not even think of uttering the dreaded phrase “White Zinfandel.”
Why? Because the labels “pretentious,” “rube” and “non-wine drinker” will be stuck to your forehead and nothing else you say will be taken seriously, at least pertaining to food. Let’s face it, being so close to Wine Country, even SF biker bars serve a decent vintage or two.
Here’s a TasteTV tip: When in San Francisco, the “proper” way to order the above mentioned wines is the following:
Voila, you are now charming, cultured, and good-looking. Plus, you now have the keys to any bartender, waiter or sommelier’s ear and respect in San Francisco.
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Methinks they claim this too much. Newspapers are in a blood bath, and many will not survive. In fact, many have closed up already, and good luck finding any reporter you used to know. Many are currently looking at new professions. But all is not lost (we hope).
With the full onset of consistently declining revenues and mass layoffs, newspapers have now finally accepted the depth of their plight. Now the war wages on as to how — and whether — print can become more commercially viable through innovation. In an article discussing how industries rework themselves to stay relevant, the NYT blissfully throws doubt on her ability to survive in this economic climate. Is there at least some solution that could save the local paper?
The bitter feud between Slate’s Ron Rosenbaum and new media simpleton Jeff Jarvis aside, both do agree that newspapers are in deep s–t.
You’ll see more on this topic tomorrow, and the next day, and the next…
Current TV, launched by former VP Al Gore in San Francisco, is a great network. It is now expanding to Canada, but at the same time it’s laying off quite a few staff persons.
Current TV, backed by Al Gore, is going through a bit of its own gore today, as it laid off about 60 of its employees. The exact count: it is eliminating 60 positions in U.S. but is adding 30 new positions, and many of those laid off will be offered new positions. The total staff count left now is 410. This comes a day after Current announced its expansion into Canada, in a tie-up with CBC. The company already has channels in the U.S., Britain, Ireland and Italy, and all of these are local JVs, hence likely unaffected in any big way
This just in: Current TV’s director of public relations sent us an email designed to be printed in its entirety. (Thanks for that. Since Valleywag fired everyone else, I spend way too much time editing.) Current didn’t just cut staff, they reshuffled a couple dozen employees. Instead of the economy, Current blames “a new, innovative programming strategy.” That’s gotta make everyone feel better. A tipster tells us, “The few spared [in San Francisco] are being made to choose between unemployment or a move to L.A.”
Says Current CEO Joel Hyatt. “They brought it upon themselves,” Hyatt said, while speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. “There’s been no innovation in forty years. I grew up on Walter Cronkite. And the only thing that ever changed on the evening news was his tag line, ‘And that’s the way it is.’ If you asked my sons — both of them are in their 20s — to respond to the notion that somebody is going to tell you the way it is, it’s like speaking Greek . . . It’s just not the way a young generation is willing to receive its information.”
Another great one from the New York Times. In this instance they do a taste test of all the fair-trade/organic type chocolates they can gather, and give them to a local chef for his thoughts. As you can guess, he hates most of them.
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