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Tue, Jul 31 2007

Why MSM Online Video Sites Suck

Liz Gannes notes that the recent failures of mainstream media online video sites demonstrate something audiences have known all along: design by committee and distribution in walled gardens, two things that work for TV, don’t work for online video.

Learn from CBS, TV dinosaurs: creative independence and superdistribution are the real keys to success inside online video. Anything else is waddling too slow in a little tar pit.

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    1749 days ago
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  2. By DH Fan

    its is useless and unsuccessful vs. public video sites, it doesn’t even allow viewers outside the US/Canada to view episodes online

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