Comments on: The Long Tail of YouTube

By: Asi

Asi — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:44:39 +0000

your post is really interesting and raises some BIG questions re the long tail. I think that YouTube is relevant to some of Anderson’s writing but it is hard to take it as a case study for commerce, as currently very few people use it for sales.

we’ll have to wait and see

keep up the good work!

By: Siddiq

Siddiq — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:55:12 +0000

Scott P - Thanks for the correction. Fixed the Links…

By: scottp

scottp — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:21:31 +0000

Thanks for the link. By the way, the other links listed there seem to be broken. At least on FF that list of 3 links all point to the same page.

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By: range

range — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:14:23 +0000

Yeah Mr Angry, reading articles on digg and YouTube is definitely a way to crack the YouTube star thing. Your trick worked, everyone knows hot chicks get views. Like Marc Fawzi of Evolving Trends said, the way is to be able to move this initial wave of views into a more regular number of views.

I think for an advertiser, what it boils down, is the number of views, no matter what way you go about them, as soon as they are regular.

By: Mr Angry

Mr Angry — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:45:16 +0000

Ask any salesperson - 20 qualified leads are better than 1000 cold calls. I’ve been using youtube to host videos for my blog, I’m not really trying to be a youtube star but it would be nice. I am not a blip on youtubes radar so I tried experimenting - embed a strategic image of a nude girlie and give the video a leading title and description.

My usual vlogs generate a few hundred views over a couple of weeks. This little stunt looks like generating 10,000 views in 24 hours. But I have a strong suspicion those views would be over very low value to an advertiser.

By: Siddiq

Siddiq — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:49:21 +0000

To me, the real issue isnt their traffic some much as why would I as a marketer, pay for it? The value in advertising in the top 20 apes the broadcast model, but thats so last year. Its not where the real action is. The real action is in the tail, where the audiences are 100 people or less. The challenge is coming up with someway to engage an audience of that size.

By: Reader

Reader — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:01:15 +0000

Very Interesting post. The ‘wisdom’ of the day appears to be that if you have a million people on your website, you’ll find someway to monetize your audience. Unfortunately most of these websites do not provide anything of sufficient value that people will pay for.