Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Then came blogs. Why am I excited about in-stream advertising then?

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. Here is my case: 1.

Hulu 292

Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

They attract over 70 million people a month (just in the US), and by most accounts are still one of the 10 most popular sites in the world. MySpace should not require a login to get into the site, and I DON’T want to see my profile when I do log in. The user generated content on MySpace is user profiles, updates, blogs and pictures.

Development Team Review 76

Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

They point to YouTube as the big gorilla, but also social networking with video (Bebo), and video job sites (VisualCV). One video blog (now called vlog) on YouTube has over two million subscribers. billion for the site in 2006. There are now more than 24 hours of video uploaded every minute to the site.

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Hulu Social Network Blogging Netflix 84