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Even with newspaper video, the reruns can be better. Some fascinating discussion on low-end vs high-end video (does there have to be a versus?).
I think this is an important discussion. Newspapers have a disruptive opportunity with video that shouldn't be overlooked by anyone developing Internet strategies for newspapers. Should we be as passionate about producing good online video as Angela Grant and others? Sure. There's room for both.
The latest reruns on the newspaper video debate (Updated):
- Craig Rubens: Essay: Internet Killed the Newspaper Baron
- Howard Owens: There’s still no evidence that ‘big and huge’ is the right video strategy
- William M. Hartnett: When it comes to newspaper video, focus on the bigger picture
- Ryan Sholin: Why shoot newspaper video?
- Angela Grant: One-hour production time is unrealistic
- Howard Owens: Key points in a disruptive newspaper video strategy
- Patrick Thornton: Video does not equal new media
But let me add another wrinkle to this screen grab on the state of newspaper video.
The disruption is in the distribution -- or ability to attract audience. At knoxnews, we post standalone video on our site, into the AP Online Video Network, and YouTube.
Where do we get the most views? YouTube!
Maybe others have a different experience. But that says something about the power of distribution. Whoever gets the distribution, wins. That's one reason why lots of video now makes sense, but finding the right avenues for it to reach the audience that wants it is critical.
It will take more than putting video on a newspaper dot com Web site whether it is low-end on-the-scene video or a piece that took days to produce.
Tags: video news | newspaper video
Tags: interns | Lauren Bell | Rem de Rohna
One-stop for video stats, facts and figures. Bookmark it; Howard's done the work for you!
Tags: video | video stats
Here's two video views of the sex appeal (or social networking creds) of the oh-so-trendy iPhone.
iPhone of the Sexes from New York video blogger Ilana Arazie and iPhone Lovin' from the Wall Street Journal's Andy Jordan and his new Tech Diary video blog.
Gee, maybe iPhone owners will just have to use it as a phone/iPod/Internet device. Go figure.
Tags: iPhone | sex appeal | social networking | adult toy
Some views on the new Pew study on Video Online.
On the sticky note write, "Here's proof that there's a Revolution happening."
-- David All
- Melissa Worden: Good and bad news for online video
- Howard Owen: Use caution when reading too much into latest Pew study on video
- Steve Yelvington: Striking video usage
- Robert Patterson: Online Video has Tipped - Pew
- Ed Cotton: online video is mass media for the young
- David All: Pew Report finds prominent role for online video
- Church of the Customer: Why everyone wants a viral video
- Lisa Barone: Broadband, Social Trends Linked To Online Video Growth
- Dan Blank: 57% of Internet Users Have Watched Videos Online
- Updated: Mindy McAdams: Frequent use of online video
Oh, wow, Ilana Arazie, is getting hyped on Jewlicious.com and snuck in an AP The Hot List and is doing stuff for Amaldo.com.
Check out her vblog, Downtonw Diary, for her latest.
The video below is a recent one on online dating that I liked.
She's got a day job with the AP Online Video Network, but I wouldn't be surprised to see her build a pretty good audience around her video blogging. She's got the guerilla marketing going already. Hey, Ilana, go for it!
Tags: Ilana Arazie | video blogging | vblog
Our two summer interns, R&B (Rem de Rohan and Lauren "Bama" Bell), have done a video on life as a intern. Not to be missed.
Tags: interns | newspaper video
Somebody put online video on fast forward.
From a new survey:
Daily vidoe usage up 56 percent over last year
14 percent of American 12 to 64 watch online video daily.
80 percent of 18 to 24s watch video at least once a week.
News stories are reported by consumers as the most frequently viewed video they watch regularly on the Internet. Over a third of online Americans 12 to 64 watch online video news stories regularly.
-- Magid Media Futures news release
While not broken down by demos, we also are seeing dramatic yeear-over-year growth in the number of video streams develivered from knoxnews via the AP video player.
(via LostRemote)
Tags: online video | news videos | video usage
Angela Grant has it right.
I think a "newscast" on the Internet is the inappropriate repurposing of TV to the Web. If I want to view a string of videos, I want them to be of my choosing. Produce enough video, organize them, make them searchable and shareable and the "channel" of programming will develop. The users will create the playlist.
I've looked at a lot of the Web newscasts and I have difficulty staying with them to the end, even if they are not longer than five minutes.
Do newscasts on news Web sites work for you?
Tags: video | video news
A visit to Rosslyn Chapel and the castle ruins during our vacation trip to Scotland.
Tags: Scotland | Rosslyn Chapel | video
A video of Craigmillar Castle on the outskirts of Edinburgh in Scotland. Great castle to see.
Tags: Scotland | Edinburgh | Craigmillar Castle | video
We only waited two years to see this. And Bill Shory explains why.
Tags: open records | police video | in-car cameras
Or "good enough" revisited.
We had a video go viral this week. We had a story on Sunday about a Knoxville porn starlet who goes by the name of Barbie Cummings. She blogged that she had oral sex and had naughty photos taken during a traffic stop by a Tennessee State Trooper. (Her NSFW blog suddenly disappeared Tuesday)
The Highway Patrol has suspended the trooper while it investigates. The sordid tale is here.
We weren't the first to have the story. We got scooped by a local TV station, WATE, on Friday night.
But the reporter assigned to the story, Matt Lakin, got an interview with the Cummings on Saturday. He took his $99 Target camera (wait, they're $89 now). No lights. No external mic. No tripod. usually poor audio and a challenge to hold steady. We're not taking a fancy HD camera here, folks. It's just sightly larger than a cigarette pack.
Lakin shot the video and online producer Erin Chapin edited and posted it Saturday night.
Despite the technical limitation, it proved good enough.
You can see his interview here.
We believe he is the only reporter who has done a video interview with Cummings about her encounter with the Tennessee trooper.
Traffic to the video soared on Monday, getting almost as many views during Monday as we had for all videos last week, according to stats from the Associated Prees. We are one of the early sites using AP to host and play local videos.
AP said the video, which was available most of Monday only from our branded version of the AP player, ranked as the third most viewed video of the day in its Online Video Network of over 1,600 affiliates.
Calls came in from TV networks and Tennessee TV stations to use the video.
The video was moved to the full national network and on Tuesday was listed as an "Editor's Pick" in the national AP channel. At mid-afternoon, it was No. 1 in the AP network.
Sometimes getting the story is about thinking and being there. And that's good reporting, print or video, right?
Tags: Barbie Cummings | porn star | Tennessee Highway Patrol | newspaper video
I was testing out my video camera, a Panasonic SDR-S150, and shot this video of one of my favorite potters, Mary Farrell. She was kind enough to be my test subject.
Mary and her husband, David, are marking their 30th anniversary of operating Westmoore Pottery in the Westmoore area of northern Moore County, N.C.
If I haven't bought at least one piece from them every year they've been open, it'd be close. I love their pottery. They make pottery in the styles of pottery made in the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries.
She said she'd had a great time helping put together an exchibit at the North Carolina Pottery Center in nearby Seagrove that features the work of Farrells, Hal and Eleanor Pugh of New Salem, NC, and historical works from North Carolina drawn from private collections here and yonder.
The exhibit is called "Slipped, Dipped and Dotted: 18th-21st Century North Carolina Redwares" and runs through Aug. 25, 2007.
On this Saturday afternoon, she was doing a demonstration for two children and me of how she decorates pottery. Later a photographer from the Asheoboro, NC, newspaper showed up to take some photos.
If you are ever in the area, visit their shop. It's been featured in Country Living and Home and Garden magazine.
Tags: Westmoore | Seagrove Pottery | North Carolina pottery
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They're doing something funky with the images, but otherwise I like it.
Having a little search box is a great idea.
Tags: ap video network | news video
Thanks to Mark Potts for pointing to Iowahawk's Subscribe Now!.
And to NewTeeVee's Liz Gannes for pointing to Good Morning World.
Iowahawk has the history of the newspapers satirically nailed.
And Andy Peppers (played by Peter Oldring) and Alasdair Coulter (played by Pat Kelly) are indeed a "bad morning show for the world."
Together, they were a great way to start the day. Check them out.
Tags: newspapers | TV morning shows
This one is bound to go viral ... Medieval Tech Support.
(via Tim O'Reilly)
Tags: help desk | tech support
One of favorite blog sites, NewTeeVee, has an interesting take on online video.
According to number-crunchers Hitwise, graphic major news events — like the death of croc hunter Steve Irwin and the hanging of Saddam Hussein — helped spur an almost 200 percent increase in traffic to multimedia news sites in the past year. While the jump is likely of little surprise to NewTeeVee readers, one interesting nugget from Hitwise’s US News and Media report was that market share of the top 10 news and media websites actually decreased by 3.8 percent over the same period, perhaps a sign that viewers are finding and clicking on “non-traditional” news sites instead of just the big broadcast brands. Good news, long-tailers!
I looked at Knoxnews' AP Online Video Network traffic and while the number of streams is relatively small, the growth rate is huge: up 495 percent year-over-year and up 78 percent in April from March.
Granted, Virginia Tech had a big impact on the April numbers, but that's only part of the picture. I can only cleanly measure AP Online Video Network streams, but we've been ramping up our local video efforts over the past year -- and particularly in the last six months. That means the true growth in video consumption on knoxnews, a newspaper dot com, is much, much higher than the numbers above.
Maybe newspaper sites figure into the non-traditional sites mentioned as benefiting from video growth? Film at 11 for TV, if true.
Tags: video | online video | video blogging
Not convinced news video is really big right now instead of sometime from now? If Google buying YouTube wasn't enough to convince you the audience is there, Andy Plesser has the tipping point in some internal CNN stats:
CNN online video clips of news surrounding the Virginia Tech shootings totaled 11.4 million views on Monday, far more than the daily average of 2.1 million streams and exceeding the previous one-day record of 7.7 on December 30, 2006, the day after Saddam's execution.
And the most compelling video I saw -- that made you feel you were right there -- wasn't shot by a TV network or station camera crew. It was blurry, jumpy cell phone video submitted to CNN.
And hey, it's not just young people as Angela Grant points out in noting some eMarketer stats.
Tags: video | Beet.TV | cnn | news video | news media | Virginia Tech | cell phone video
It's got a pretty easy to use admin tool, delivers video in both Windows Media and Flash formats, works with at least Internet Explorer and Firefox, and the Windows and OS X operating systems.
You can email links and create your own playlist.
The Associated Press, working with Microsoft and some other vendors/partners, has some ambitious growth plans for the online video network. We'll see where it goes.
Tags: video | AP | Associated Press
Zadi Diaz has become one of my favorite vbloggers.
When I was doing the viral thing, one of my co-workers said: "She's no Ze Frank." Ah, no, she's not. She's executive producer and host of JETSET and a lover of chocolate and raspberry (more bio). I don't think I would ever mistake her for Ze Frank.
Yesterday, the 50th episode of Diaz and Steve Woolf's vblog, JETSET, was posted.
JETSET, which Diaz calls a Vloggie, is described as an Internet and pop culture show for young adults (that's not me, but I like it anyway).
The first episode were online on June 1, 2006. And Zadi Diaz is on the verge of being of a big Internet video star. Maybe she already is.
In the 50th episode, she gave shoutouts to a whole gang of other video bloggers (she must have just spaced The Randoms). Browse around the site and watch some other episodes.
Best of luck to Diaz and Woolf in their WebbyAward nomination. Look likes a slam dunk in their category.
Earlier this week, Diaz was at the Radio Television News Directors Association big confab in Vegas and talked about what she's doing in this video clip. Here's Lost Remote's coverage of the same panel she was on.
Beyond JETSET, Diaz has a text blog and is on Twitter. Photo on right is from her Flickr stream.
And there's Terry Heaton getting his photo taken with Diaz and Amanda Congden. How'd that happen -- and in Vegas?
The always interesting Mark "Blog Maverick" Cuban tells us when people watch video online (based on Comscore data):
When do more people watch online video than any other time ? From 10am to 5pm, mon to fri. Thats when 30pct of all online video viewing takes place. If you want to go a little earlier, for those that get to work early, add another 7pct. So that 37pct of all online viewing activity takes place from 7am to 5pm. Or put another way, about 50pct of all video viewing during weekdays happens from 7am to 5pm. Thats a big number.
He says it hasn't changed all that much from his old days in audio. And while he doesn't note it, the percentages certainly roughly match the times of day for heavy use of news sites in general. At KnoxNews, we see the upward spike starting at 8 a.m. We have a lot of people in this market who get to work at 7 or 7:30.
This certainly means watching video at the workplace is tolerated by managers and IT folks, although I'm sure there is some hand wringing. What's the proper response when the boss walks up behind you when you're watching the latest crazy clip from YouTube? ... Yeah, you need a bigger boss mirror.
For news sites, the numbers mean breaking video news could be as important as breaking text news.
Tags: video | mark cuban | web traffic
Beet.tv's Andy Plesser has done a nice piece on Ilana Arazie, who I mentioned recently.
I'm a big fan of Arazie's "Reel City Tales" vblog. We've featured it a couple times on the home page and the entertainment section front of KnoxNews on the weekends and it's gotten pretty good traffic -- for a weekend.
She pushing the envelope a bit for content on mainstream media sites. Check out what she has to say on this video itnerview on Beet.tv. Good interview!
One wonders when she'll leave her day gig as an AP "Product Specialist" to be a fulltime vblogger for the wire service.
Tags: vblogging | associated press | ilana arazie | asap
Really good story at Beet.TV about the AP Online Video Network beta that we're participating in at Knoxville News Sentinel along with a number of other papers. Give the piece a read (and watch the video above). It's the best overview of the efforts that I've seen.
At the very least, the ability to upload local videos provides sites who are already using the AP Online Video Network a unified player for all video with ad avail spots.
Whether the AP project is the answer is yet to be determined, but the news organization and its partner Microsoft have a very rich set of tools they are pushing out to their members.
(Andy Plesser has a very interesting blog if you haven't checked it out.)
Tags: video | Travel | newspapers
An inky-fingered print journalist to multimedia contender weighs in.
Just discovered a new blog from Ian Reeves called Streaming Blue Murder, subtitled "Old journalism dog. New video tricks."
Looks it's going to ba a good one! But does "streaming blue murder" mean something? if it does, it flew right over me.
Tags: teleivsion | newspapers | online viedeo
A reporter might arrive on a location to do an interview. The subject would sit there, waiting anxiously. "Can we start?" the subject says.
"Not yet" says the reporter. There is a pause. "I have to wait for the pencil to arrive".
Some fascinating thoughts from TV guy Michael Roseblum about online video and, maybe, how traditional print media organizations "are going to bury their former television competitors."
Some commenters lambasted his post as promoting a type of journalism that's basically not professional enough. But the question is: Is it good enough?
I think the answer -- at least for now -- is that VJ, backpack, MoJo, or just reporter with a camera video can attract an audience and be disruptive to the traditioanl TV model. And while the production qualities are derided by the "pros," the viewers are watching.
Isn't it a little like having the best story last?
I hope Michael Rosenblum is right!
via BuzzMachine
Tags: michael rosenblum | jeff jarvis | newspaper video
If not from TV, yellow pages? So says that seer Greg Sterling.
Tags: video | yellow pages | television | video advertising
This is disruptive as hell...
A new Borrell Associates’ report due to be released Tuesday finds that newspaper-run websites are making more money from VIDEO advertising than TV station sites are by a ratio of almost 3 to 1 ($81 million to $32 million).
See the post on Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog
I took a quick look at the report and in addition to what Terry Heaton notes, I noticed the Borrell report is projecting double-digit, triple-digit and gains over 1000 percent for local DMAs in 2007 from 2006. If 2006 was the year of YouTube, those outsized gains would certainly make 2007 the year of the video ad.
The report says: "Remarkably, newspapers have made the transition to Web-based video advertising quicker than their local broadcast competitors have."
A key has been "long-form" video in classified verticals, like our online advertising folks' Digital Edge Award finalist: KnoxJobs.tv
There's quite a bit of good, new information in the report.
Tags: video | television | newspapers | borrell
Hmmm ... this is not my editor's AP. The august news wire, The Associated Press, is doing some experimenting. They've turned a young "product specialist" in the Online Video Network loose on the streets for eight weeks with a video camera, a Typepad account and some moxie.
The results are well hidden inside ASAP, an edgier AP youth news package and Web service, but really you can just go to the vblog directly. The vblog, called Reel City Tales, is done by Ilana Arazie and her latest delves into that vexing issue of how many dates a girl should wait before having sex. She gets varied responses.
I think something good could happen here while the suits aren't watching. I hope AP lets it last longer than eight weeks. Check out her latest tale.
Tags: vblog | sex | innovation
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John Edwards may not win the Democratic nomination for president in the 2008 campaign, but his use of online video is being viewed as a tipping point in defining online video as a serious medium ready to content with traditional media.
Edwards pre-announced his candidacy on YouTube before the official launch. That act has almost gotten him more buzz than the actual announcement (which was expected). I think it has gotten him more blogger buzz, but that's just a guess.
The "webisode" is posted here.
Al Gore invented the Internet; John Edwards invents video as a serious online medium.
If Howard Dean's was the first Internet presidential political campaign, will Edwards' be the first to win YouTube?
Tags: John Edwards | YouTube | online video | media
A collection of what appears to be handy Web-based video tools are here.
What are the best tools out there?
Tags: video tools
Tom Abate writes about a presentation on the Ventura Counmty Star's groundbrekaing video efforts.
His takeaway on that presentation and some others at UC Berkeley’s New Media program:
The key to cross-training print journalists as videographers was to get comfortable with the notion that they would make mistakes. Not errors in fact. Not telling viewers there was a fire when it was obviously a flood. But camera shots may be shaky and audio may be “too hot” (loud?) because multimedia storytelling is a learning process — and one that plays out in front of an audience and often on deadline.
Good point!
Tags: video | ventura county star
Surely one of the big developments in 2007 will be the integration of community-generated video onto established publishing platforms from CNET to the Washington Post. I bet it's going to happen fast.
-- Andy Plesser, Beet.TV
Tags: video
A Christmas video special from the KnoxNews producers ... They're fab! More here.
Tags: RandomThis | Video | Santa Baby
Om Malik's new blog NewTeeVee will be must reading.
I've already discovered "praying mantis girl" and Kent Nichols' Ask a Ninja.
Maybe, NewTeeVee will discover the Randoms, whose weekly video features are gems on KnoxNews.com. They rock -- every week.
Or maybe our use of $99 cameras from Target to do news videos like this
Good luck to Om and his editorial team on the new blog. It'll be one of my daily reads.
A Halloween experience at the Lail household
Tags: halloween | home video
