Early in 2012, Youtube provided $100 million in funding to launch a number of “professionally produced” channels. Those that have not done well are about to get cancelled, followed by a new round of funding to start up new channels.
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YouTube View Fraud – how top producers once (and maybe still do) gamed the system
View fraud is used to rapidly increase the number of views of an online video, moving a video quickly on to the Most Viewed and Top Rated lists. That, in turn, exposes the video to real users who are implored to “Subscribe!”.
There are numerous online reports (and data to back them up) suggesting that many of today’s top online video producers use view fraud to game the system and achieve their early online video success.
Some say they still game the system: YouTube View Fraud – Encyclopedia Dramatica.
It was (and may be still is) quite easy to do. Another short example here.
This article gives additional tips on view fraud (embedding your videso to autoplay on every page of your web site) and which video sites are better at weeding out fraud, than others.
This does not mean all producers engaged in view fraud but there are plenty of online stories and data to back them up that suggest a number of today’s top producers did indeed use view fraud to establish their online presence.
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YouTube Takes Another Swipe At TV With Its Election 2012 Livestreaming Coverage.
Like I said, below, online video distribution is the future.
Kodak to sell off its film business
The end of the yellow boxes:
The venerable but bankrupt camera company Eastman Kodak has put the iconic film portion of its business up for sale.
Eastman Kodak said on Thursday that its selling the business unit, which includes its "traditional photographic paper and still camera film products." Film has been overtaken by digital imaging in recent years.
Google files patent for #3D Video Conferencing for notebook PCs
Google Invents 3D Video Conferencing for Notebooks & Beyond – Telepresence Options.
But from the drawing, their interaxial spacing is WAY too large to be useful. Let’s assume its just a concept.
The actual patent application appears to be no so much about 3D video conferencing as about using two cameras for either 3D or two separate 2D images, say, for a 2nd person sitting next to the first.
This goes with my sense that business applications of 3D could be more lucrative than the better known entertainment options.