Comments on: Cuban: Just overwhelm YouTube

By: Bryan Murley

Bryan Murley — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:39:24 +0000

ZVI has it right. The oscars.com web site has no clips at all. If the academy did something innovative with its web site, that would be one thing. As it is, Cuban’s “solution” sounds childish and would likely do more harm than good for the stodgy old folks in Hollywood. I liked him more when he was focused on the Mavericks.

By: zvi

zvi — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:57:47 +0000

Cuban’s solution only works if the Oscar.com website has clips of the ceremony itself. I went to the Oscars.com website looking for the Dreamgirls medley. No dice, so I went to Youtube.

Why didn’t I watch it on tv? Well, there was another tv show I wanted to watch more, so I watched three hours of Oscar and one hour of other program, and it was too much work for too little reward to tape the amount of Oscar I didn’t watch live.

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:35:13 +0000

If you want Oscar coverage, you should go to oscar-dot, ET-dot-yahoo, CNN or the LA paper; Why would you go to one of the dozens of amateur video sites?

I know - I need a recipe for chowder; I think I’ll skip the recipe database on marthastewart and go to the Chicago Tribune, instead. I bet they’ve done at least one feature on chowder in the past ten years and hey, a periodical website is a periodical website - right?

By: Hussman

Hussman — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:34:21 +0000

I’m surprised people still watch the Oscars to be honest.

By: thedetroitchannel

thedetroitchannel — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:33:34 +0000

youtube’s response?

a clip of bush saying “bring it on”

By: Steve Safran

Steve Safran — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:26:53 +0000

While I continue to believe Cuban\’s on the wrong side of the YouTube argument, I\’ll give him points for creativity. Still, it\’s a case of old media trying to protect its old model. Cuban\’s idea isn\’t entirely original - record companies did something similar in the waning days of Napster by uploading clips purporting to be songs by certain artists that were actually 10 second loops of that song.

Mark: In this model, how many people do you suppose would watch the clip, get fooled and then think \”Hey, good for them! I\’m gonna go to Oscars.com now.\” Alienating and tricking your biggest fans is a lousy way to drum up traffic.

By: Echy

Echy — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:34:35 +0000

If as you say the viewer wasn’t going to visit the site of the content owner then it’s okay to let YouTube keep the content for free? You’re out of your mind. Don’t get me wrong. I could care less about the Oscars, YouTube and most of the video available on the internet. But this idea that letting someone else display content that belongs to someone else is wrong. It won’t generate more viewers for the content provider (read paid ad views) because the viewer never has to visit the content generators site. They just keep going back to YouTube.