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We are rapidly becoming Video Nation, or rather, video world.
A place in which all ideas (and everything else) are communicated in video.
Yesterday, Youtube passed an astonishing statistic – 1 Billion videos viewed in one day.
One day.
That means, in effect, that one in every 7 people on the planet visited Youtube to look at a video yesterday.
And, as only 2 billion people have access to the web, half of everyone online looked at a video on Youtube.
It is astonishing.
Absolutely astonishing.
Yesterday, Andy Plesser, EP for BeetTV reported that he had interviewed Sir Tim Berners Lee in Washington, DC. Â While he was interviewing, Sir Tim whipped out his flipcam and started shooting. Â Andy reports that he shot Sir Tim with his Canon digi cam.
When Sir Tim Berners Lee is walking about with a flipcam, you should be able to smell the future.
And it moves.
9 Comments
Michael Rosenblum October 11, 2009
We have never conducted a survey of how many people made how much money after they graduated. Many people don’t take the course to make money. I would say about a third take it for some kind of personal improvement. Of the remainder, probably half don’t ever do anything else after the course. Of those that are left, a good chunk end up selling a few pieces to the channel. A few have been hired full time for the channel, and a fair number have made money on their own website. I can say that I don’t think anyone who took the course went away disappointed. We have a 100% approval rating on our after course surveys.
Austin Beeman October 11, 2009
It is simple but still needs to be said.
You train in video to make better videos.
You train in business to make money.
Do both and you can make money running an online business in video.
The age of the micro-business is coming!
Rosenblum’s VJ training does the first. His blog gives inspiration to the second.
At least it does for me.
digger October 11, 2009
It’s not so much a topic for debate, as a question. How many of the people signing up for the training courses hoping to make money as videoographers ever make dollar one?
Has anyone ever covered their expenses? I know this question has been asked many times before, but so far it has never been answered.
pencilgod October 11, 2009
It’s a good point, especially when the bulk of what is being viewed on youtube is copy write infringed TV programs. If it was all amateur generated content would anyone still be watching?
digger October 11, 2009
How to monetize 100 hits per year? However cheaply you produce, the people paying for distribution only care about CPM. If you can deliver 10 million viewers for 60 minutes and sell ads at $100K for 30 seconds you can earn millions in profit.
But if you make a 5 minute video that clocks 500 hits on youtube everyone knows that a small fraction of those hits actually represent full views. How do you make dollar one?
Michael Rosenblum October 10, 2009
Well with 120 million videos on Youtube, and 8.9 billion viewed last month, that probably puts me somewhat at the average. However, all this does emphasize that we are headed to a massive, massive fractionalization of content. Massive. The idea of mass media is over. Massive media, more likely. It’s a whole new world and I don’t think anyone really understands it yet, but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
digger October 10, 2009
Good point. I did see your Youtube vids. Some of them get a hit or two a week. How does that compare?
Michael Rosenblum October 10, 2009
Yes
You can see me all the time, all in video at http://www.nyvs.com
Check it out!
digger October 10, 2009
Do you have any plans to use video to communicate?
It’s quite simple.