As Ben wrote earlier this week, the writers strike could help shine the spotlight on video sites beyond YouTube. The Washington Post’s Paul Fahri agrees.
In yesterday’s WaPo, Paul writes how TV’s loss is the Web’s gain.
Here’s a lovely irony of the Hollywood writers’ strike: In the name of winning a bigger share of revenue from the sale of TV shows over the Internet, TV writers could wind up driving viewers to the Web in search of original online video.
[...] Miro – Internet TV Blog » Blog Archive » False Alarm: Avast AntiVirus wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptHere’sa lovely irony of the Hollywood writers’ strike: In the name of winning a bigger share of revenue from the sale of TV shows over the Internet, TV writers could wind up driving viewers to the Web in search of original online video. … [...]
[...] Team America wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptHere’sa lovely irony of the Hollywood writers’ strike: In the name of winning a bigger share of revenue from the sale of TV shows over the Internet, TV writers could wind up driving viewers to the Web in search of original online video. … [...]
I know I’m having a hard time with Colbert/Daily Show withdrawal. The closest I’ve found online this week is this satire (I think?) of a Giuliani ad that attacks Hillary Clinton and the dem’s seeming obsession with aliens of all stripes (uh, Kucinich?). I saw it pn PrezVid:
http://prezvid.com/2007/11/08/votervid-driver’s-licenses-for-illegals/
I also really liked WGA’s The Office YouTube – really spells out the issues of the strike.
Unfortunately when those users get to the web there’s not much in the form of competing long-form content.