And with all those opinions going around, it seems only fitting to throw in one of our own.
Here’s our prediction……. Flickr Video will not be like YouTube, Blip.tv, Revver, Veoh, or any of the other video sharing sites.
Flickr Video will be(come) a Stock Video library. Maybe THE stock video library.
(This may even turn out to be revenue source for them if they act as the “payment gateway”, and take a small cut of all purchases of stock footage.)
That’s why only 90 seconds. (Stock Video video is usually short.)
Back when I first heard Flickr was getting video… I thought to myself, if I were Flickr, I’d try to be a Stock Footage site. Flickr certainly already has the right type of users to build up an impressive stock footage library. It also presents a possibility of a revenue source of selling stock footage.
Thinking that I suspected that that may be their plan. And now that they’ve said the videos can only be 90 seconds long, I’m more certain about it.
It will be interesting to see how things play out.
The idea is that a videoblogger could make a living from just 1000 “true” fans.
From the article…
A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your stuff even though they have the low-res version. They have a Google Alert set for your name. They bookmark the eBay page where your out-of-print editions show up. They come to your openings. They have you sign their copies. They buy the t-shirt, and the mug, and the hat. They can’t wait till you issue your next work. They are true fans.
Assume conservatively that your True Fans will each spend one day’s wages per year in support of what you do. That “one-day-wage” is an average, because of course your truest fans will spend a lot more than that. Let’s peg that per diem each True Fan spends at $100 per year. If you have 1,000 fans that sums up to $100,000 per year, which minus some modest expenses, is a living for most folks.
I’d encourage you to read more of the article… it’s an interesting read.
#1: Submit your video to these social bookmarking sites #2: Submit to these entertainment sites #3: Promote within YouTube #4: Submit to forums on the Internet #5: Submit to the major network television shows #6: Post to your blog, especially if you have a high traffic blog! #7: Forward to family and friends
#5 on his was surprising to me…
Submit to the major network television shows: Get your video on one of these huge shows for a chance of big time publicity
Teleprompters have made it so that people giving a speeches, reading out the news, or talking to an audience no longer have to memorize their speeches or have to constantly look down to read the text off a page.
These can be a great tool when filming. And let’s the subject being filmed look at the camera while being able to read what they have to say.
So then, it’s great to know that you can make your own telepropmter