DISQUS

Unblock Facebook · 8 months ago

It will continue to rise as, people become more and more busy and the convenince of watching your fav show on your own time is just unbeatable

Fitness Video Guy · 8 months ago

I am a content partner on YouTube and I generate millions of views on my original videos each month. I have been thinking for sometime that eventually that the large video portals will get down to signing premium partners to an exclusive deal. I'm not talking about NBC or other studio's either - but rather indie's like myself who have a large loyal following and deliver the eyeballs day in day out. When the video portal wars really start to heat up, eventually it will come down to the content - and not just studio content and TV shows. I would gladly stop uploading via TubeMogul to every portal out there if YouTube cut us a more lucrative deal and actually helped promote us like the valuable property we are. Imagine if they signed the top 100 - 150 partners to exclusive deals - which included them removing their content from all of the other sites. These shows represent tens of millions of daily views and millions of loyal fans. There are also web sites associated with these shows that could serve ads etc. They could make this move with promotion guarantees and a larger cut of the adsense pie. Creators would fall over themselves to compete to get into this program - and the result would be higher quality UGC.