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newspaper video question
Peter Tarry, Photographer
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croydon | Surrey | England | Posted: 6:58 AM on 05.12.09 |
->> Just wondering if the demand for video stories shot for newspapers or other news web sites has dropped off or not, it seems that interest over here seems to have fallen off a bit, I haven't used XHA1 that I have since last November.
The newspaper its self runs web stories but these are linked to Newscorp TV channels or to Youtube. A lot was expected of the video stories on paper web sites but I don't know if its just a temporary lull in interest or more lickely money or ifs the longer nature of producing video.
I did think that there would be a boom in video with the introducing of the DSLR's with the built in video but these cameras are the first of their kind and so a little limited in terms of use .
So are you still being asked to shot videos ? Are the stories shot, still getting good feedback and views or is the shooting of stills more in demand due to its quicker turnaround ? |
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Colin Mulvany, Photographer
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Spokane | WA | USA | Posted: 9:44 AM on 05.12.09 |
->> Here is my experience with video at my newspaper. U.S. publishers are retrenching as they try and save their print publications.
http://tinyurl.com/c8jp36 |
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Peter Wine, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Dayton | OH | USA | Posted: 1:36 PM on 05.12.09 |
->> I don't work for a newspaper, but I do assignment work with one, and they will post video that I create from events if I pester them, but will go days without new content, so I don't get the idea they feel it's a revenue generator right now.
They had a video web site for about a year, but pulled the plug on it a few months back. Oddly enough, some of the last videos I posted there picked up views faster than ones posted last year (indicating that overall numbers were up) but I guess the ad $$ didn't make it worthwhile to keep it going.
I try to do at least one video project per month, mainly so that my business web page has something somewhat current on it. (I showcase the last four events, for video and still galleries.)
Being freelance, I've also not seen any metrics from the videos I've had online, to compare to my YouTube site. It would be nice to know, though.
On my own, I've had videos that got 30 views in many months, and others that have had 300 over 6 months, and others that have had 1,000 or more in a year.
On the now defunct newspaper offshoot, one video had more 3,600 views.
Because I come from a video/TV background, I don't mind doing what's now called multi-media as much as some others. |
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Danny Gawlowski, Photographer
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Bellingham | WA | USA | Posted: 3:09 PM on 05.12.09 |
| ->> Great article, Colin. Thanks for sharing. |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Louisville | KY | USA | Posted: 3:18 PM on 05.12.09 |
->> Colin, your story is great, and you received lots of nice training. But with $100k in equipment and hundreds of thousands of dollars in personnel costs, your efforts came nowhere close to being cost-effective or a good investment for your employer. It wouldn't have mattered if the custom player with preroll capability had been completed or not. There's nowhere near enough money in it to offset the expense - much less generate a profit.
Put it another way - Google is undeniably one of the smartest companies on the Internet. They are very good at making money. They have owned Youtube since 2006. It has never generated a profit. Ever.
And here's the kicker - they don't pay a DIME to produce the content. All they do is host it and serve ads. No $60k a year journalists working a week for each two minute clip. People GIVE them millions of minutes of content FOR FREE, and it still operates nowhere close to breakeven. What's more, Youtube content is broad appeal - it's not limited to one small story about one small topic in one town.
So if the smartest guys on the Internet with the largest traffic generator and the biggest ad network in the world can't monetize broad appeal video content that is provided to them at ZERO COST, why does anyone think a local newspaper paying full-time journalists to produce narrow focused local content has ANY chance at being profitable? |
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