Comments on: AP Online Video Network adds local upload http://www.lostremote.com/2008/01/10/ap-online-video-network-adds-local-upload/ Where TV Finds the Future Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:50:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mel Taylor http://www.lostremote.com/2008/01/10/ap-online-video-network-adds-local-upload/#comment-681073 Mel Taylor Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:03:37 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/01/10/ap-online-video-network-adds-local-upload/#comment-681073 since i occasionally worship at the altar of mr. heaton, i thought i would add this thought.....to his. i agree. this IS NOT a big win for local publishers. the short term upside: this certainly allows for a local media site to have a quick and easy video publishing system, as well as national sales representation. downside: it allows the local media publisher to become lazy about dealing with video. it also allows an outsider to take a big chunk of locally directed revenue...out of the market. since i occasionally worship at the altar of mr. heaton, i thought i would add this thought…..to his.

i agree. this IS NOT a big win for local publishers.

the short term upside: this certainly allows for a local media site to have a quick and easy video publishing system, as well as national sales representation.

downside: it allows the local media publisher to become lazy about dealing with video. it also allows an outsider to take a big chunk of locally directed revenue…out of the market.

]]> By: Terry Heaton http://www.lostremote.com/2008/01/10/ap-online-video-network-adds-local-upload/#comment-678509 Terry Heaton Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:13:59 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/01/10/ap-online-video-network-adds-local-upload/#comment-678509 However... Local video is under a tab, so while it's true that they're "all in one place," it's the AP's national and global vids that get preference. And who goes to a local news site these days for those kinds of vids anyway? This is not a win-win proposition. But, of course, I could be wrong... However…

Local video is under a tab, so while it’s true that they’re “all in one place,” it’s the AP’s national and global vids that get preference. And who goes to a local news site these days for those kinds of vids anyway? This is not a win-win proposition.

But, of course, I could be wrong…

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