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Re: What is YouTube good for?

Mathew Ingram — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:16:39 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Jeff. Do you have any evidence for your belief it's a hoax, other than the stuff that Virginia Heffernan has written about on her NYT blog?

Re: What is YouTube good for?

Jeff Finley — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:29:18 -0000

Lonelygirl15 IS a b-list celebrity. She's not exactly who she makes herself out to be. She's in fact a hoax. Well, it's not a fact, YET. But there is a method to her madness and an explanation behind her millions of views and subscribers.

This may be just a conspiracy theory though.

Re: What is YouTube good for?

Mathew Ingram — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:43:18 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Andrew -- glad to help with the de-closetization :-) As for the monetizing thing, that's an interesting question. Brookers got a deal with a TV development company (no numbers though), and the Mentos guys got some cash to come up with new uses for the candy other than dunking in Diet Coke -- could someone offer Bree some dosh to fight with Daniel for pay? And would that ruin the appeal? I wonder.

Re: What is YouTube good for?

Andrew — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:21:24 -0000

I thought I was alone, I too am captivated by the "Bree and Daniel Show"... feels good to be out of the closet..

I have been pondering monetization of Youtube, not the site itself, but how does someone like Bree, monetize her exposure. There are many B list celebrities in Hollywood that would kill for the exposure she gets..

Re: What is YouTube good for?

Mathew Ingram — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:32:24 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Rohan. And Joe, that's a good point.

Re: What is YouTube good for?

Joe Clark — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:22:56 -0000

Unless it was ceded to the public domain, all the “content” on YouTube is “copyrighted.” I assume you mean “content uploaded by somebody who doesn’t have the rights to do so” (as opposed to the content uploaded by creators, an imprecise definition for works like Hollywood movies and music videos).

Re: What is YouTube good for?

Rohan Jayasekera — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:58:48 -0000

Mathew, I'm so happy that you said this. I'd been wondering whether I was completely out of touch, with my experience of YouTube and similar sites being mostly the amateur vids - and not the lip-synching ones, but the ones with 100% original content.

Even where the stuff copied from TV is concerned, I think many bloggers are living in a time warp. (Odd, since bloggers are supposed to be on the leading edge of things.) Things have changed. NBC eventually made "Lazy Sunday" available online, so that YouTube was no longer "needed" to host it, and I believe that the Daily Show and Colbert Report clips are permitted by their owners.