Pro Video Land Grab: DailyMotion AND YouTube Turn Into Google Video
DailyMotion DOES want to be the next YouTube.
The big story is NOT the copyright infringing one though, as conventional blogosphere wisdom suggests, it is a WHO WANTS FRIENDS AND FAMILY JUNK (videos) AFTER ALL!
YouTube–aka Google–has long gone from its non-money making pursuit of enabling a free-to-the consumer video hosting and sharing platform to lusting after top money making video entertainment destination honors.
Who needs “friends and family” after all when “directors” are where all the real high production quality action is.
What user-generated “broadcast yourself” videos are being “promoted” at YouTube now? Those of the commercial, professionally produced kind:
Media rep posted TV commercial for clients, ”Red Stripe Sweater,”
HollyScoopTV videos, a division of DNA Group, online entertainment magazine,
Avril Lavigne “official” Girflriend video from RCA Records
Trailers presented by “the leading Internet broadcaster for the video game industry”…
Ditto for the DailyMotion “share your videos” home page, distributing the “creativecontent” work of professional “motionmakers”:
Rocketboom,
PBS,
Wallstrip,
l0ckergn0me
Do the REAL user-generated-videos have a realistic shot at online video glory anymore? Pro video is where the real interest and money is, be it of the independently produced genre or the massively corporate sponsored variety.
BOTH YouTube AND DailyMotion are looking more and more like what Google Video orignally set out to be:
An open video marketplace where any video producer, large or small, can upload their content and distribute it for free.
Sorry, real amateurs, the online video world is no longer amateur hour.
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