Re: Heyzap Launches Publisher Revenue Share of Virtual Goods

franksinton — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:43:26 -0000

Congrats on launching this - we will probably check it out.

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

franksinton — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:17:35 -0000

Hi Fred- Long time reader, first time commenting....

This particular subject has gone back and forth over the past few years. We've had a "user queue" for a long time, which has elements of what you are talking about (http://blog.mefeedia.com/in... - recently renamed to just "watch"). I think this is what you are alluding to, rather than search or tag feeds.

User queues are useful, depending on the type of video. Three good examples would be:
1. Serial video - i.e. users want to know when the latest episode of Lost is available and "queue" it to watch later. This is where the Subscribe/Queue mechanism works best.
2. Rapid playlisting, such as one might do in a video search for a topic of high interest to you.
3. Friends' recommendations where you can queue up everything that is recommended by friends (i.e. from Twitter, FF, YouTube, FB, etc...)

However, for a lot of user videos or viral videos (which, i would argue, is still the majority of mainstream video consumption right now), this isn't as useful as that is typically more of a "watch now" experience rather than a "watch later".

Based on what we have seen, search feeds (and to some extent, tag feeds) work great for queuing. Recent news and events are great applications of this. For example, having a constant, auto-updating search stream of new videos on the Iran Elections is very conducive to a lean-back experience where you can flip from video to video.

There are a lot of variations on this, of course... i am looking forward to the continued discussion.

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