http://www.bitetv.ca/videoShort.jsp?LABEL=GET%20OUT%20OF%20MY%20KITCHEN

That wouldn’t make sense from an advertising perspective, unless CNN was displaying a house ad. CNN can’t track or manipulate ads embedded into content that’s delivered into a free-flowing environment like BitTorrent. That means (a) they can’t count the number of streams the commercial is getting and (b) they couldn’t pull the ad after the particular campaign the commercial is for has ended. Now, like I said, CNN could put house ads in there, but basically the entire segment is a house ad. Regardless of whether it’s on iFilm or on CNN, the company is putting its brand in front of an audience, and that’s basically all it can do.

“Viacom should take MTV videos and VH1 shows and put them out for all the world to distribute.”

Again, for certain lower-profile shows they could do that simply to try to build an audience, but it just doesn’t make sense for a media company to give up control of its programming and release it to file-sharing services. MTV and VH1 make money off commercials, and as I pointed out above, embedding commercials into video content and sending it into a BitTorrent-like environment isn’t realistic from a marketing and advertising perspective.

It comes down to this: do you want a passive experience? Do you want a kick back television-like experience on your computer? That’s the problem, I use my notebook for signal: for getting want I need and for working. I also support and find value in collaborative dialogue on Blogs with people I don’t physically have in my social loop including Friendster, linkedIn etc.

For a good example of a potentially successful video site (here: http://crooksandliars.com/ ) not from an interface or aesthetic perpective. I’m a designer and I’m sensitive to design and this is not my aesthetic but on the notion of aggregating video that feeds your core base: it’s on the money.

Finding and servicing your base and not wide appeal is where streaming video works. In fact, as I ripen into my mid 30’s, I’m realizing this concept is the key to success. Growing revenue, growing your base (the MBA or Harvard Business School fallacy) is misguided in my view. Double down on your base yields higher return.

At least until we solve the last mile dillema.

And again, we should expect the layering of new media on top of old media, just as Einstein didn’t replace Newton. Radio didn’t replace newspapers, television didn’t eliminate radio, and New Media (man, that term is getting stale) won’t replace any of them.

Marina, I’d disagree. Digital streaming actually delivers a huge part of current television content via digital cable. The only real question in my mind is will it be IP based, or continue to develop on dedicated networks with relatively centralized controls.

The reality, as I see it, is it’s one great big AND. Broadcast media is likely to be a faster follower in Web 2.0 than they were in Web 1.0 when it comes to distribution of their video content AND wholly new forms of video programs targeted at the “Long Tail” will find their place on enough peoples TVs, PCs, video pods and mobile devices to really matter economically.

From what I have seen, the moguls, having basically ceded all sorts of high value real estate to the Yahoo’s, Apples and Googles of the world, are getting smarter, which is as much a by-product of a changing of the guard and generational shifts as it is getting tired of sticking their heads in the ground and getting sand kicked in their faces.

News Corp. provides a particularly good example of a mogul embracing the AND side of the equation. Once we get beyond zero sum, all sorts of interesting innovations and business models become possible.

The MSM is wounded (and no complaints here about that). But reports of its death are greatly exaggerated. Beware a wounded lion….

Does the consumer get an enduring experience that they can’t live without. That’s the new benchmark. Can I live without this service? In summary, there’s money to be made and shifted from one holding group to another via veneer of opportunity (you know the game) but this is not a can’t live without service.

Keep it current and you have me more interested. I’d like to see relevant video clips integrated into blogs along with commentary and community discussion. Streaming video has no future, I was the one that said that. Everyone thought I was mad when I said that. I also said short the market in 2001. Cheers.

They are VERY behind the times. Stewart gets watched because he is funny and at least some people believe him.

We need more points of view. Why not let ABC stand for Al-Qaeda Broacasting Company, won’t have to change much. Then CBS could stay essentially as a 527 group of the Democratic Party.
Of course, that would force NBC to change, but they could claim to represent the “moderate wing of the Democratic Party” and they could all point to the fact that their stories reflect different points of view even if no one can really tell one from the other.

I guess being unemployed won’t be so bad if everything is free though I’m second guessing real estate as a sound investment.