Ditching YouTube
Writer Sarah Lacey at Pando Daily has a great piece about Nigerian Entrepreneur Jason Njoko. Njoko is building a company called Iroko which offers a distribution channel for independent producers from Nigeria.
Writer Sarah Lacey at Pando Daily has a great piece about Nigerian Entrepreneur Jason Njoko. Njoko is building a company called Iroko which offers a distribution channel for independent producers from Nigeria.
Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Google is preparing to announce more that twenty-five pro-produced YouTube channels at the end of the month. If successful this could provide an opportunity for micro production filmmakers to get access to a formal distribution channel that has some budget to pay for productions.
PCN friend and guest contributor Robin Schmidt has been cheating on us with a series of interesting articles for NoFilmSchool – I kiid, I kiid. The latest one is about how to use ranking services to game your viewership numbers to make your video relevant.
One of the best ways (supposedly) to really drive traffic through your YouTube channel is for one of your videos to make it onto the ‘most watched’ list, the front page of YouTube itself. Your video needs to be seriously trending to do this, lots of people watching it in a very short space of time. You tend to find this happening after TV shows where some enterprising soul has ripped a particular clip and posted it, with all those wishing to show their friends what they missed sending it on. This is not going to happen to your lovingly created clip. But that’s not to say that it can’t. … Continue Reading
YouTube Video Rentals beta allows users to rent content and control the price and duration.
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