...now there's PhilTube.
"The Office" meets "The YouTube Generation". Or something.
Expect to see more of this stuff in the future: cheap, easy to produce, creative, with no TV execs, huge budgets or mainstream ad agencies to have to go through. Some will make shedloads of money, some won't; some will be artistic masterpieces, some will be utter drivel, but it's all good. Rocketboom and Ze Frank led the way, and here's PhilTube trying to take it further as well...
I like it.
Posted by hugh macleod at October 25, 2006 5:43 PM | TrackBackHughTube is far more entertaining and much. much weirder.
Posted by: John Dodds at October 25, 2006 6:55 PMLawsuit in five, four, three...
Posted by: Mike Abundo at October 26, 2006 4:41 AMyes, although I agree that all-sharing institutions like youtube are good things in principle; the danger is that a large majority of contributions seem to take on a parodial and often 'ironically amusing' tone on elements of the production/distribution/acting elements of film production. Is it not the expertise, finesse and hard work of certain directors and actors that drew us to such a medium as film in the first place?
Posted by: Nick at October 26, 2006 6:24 AMOn a similar but opposite note, I've been running daily live music webcast on YouTube, where I get local bands to come and play gigs in my flat, we've just had our hundredth webcast here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPcGow3yLa0
20,000 viewers ain't many, but its got the bands music to people who wouldn't otherwise have heard it
Damn it. My life has been satired making it no longer cool. Now I need a new life. Oh well. Here we go again...
Posted by: Tim Clague at October 26, 2006 10:45 AMBut the most popular videos are those that demonstrate a finesse and require hard work.
Posted by: Lee at October 26, 2006 11:23 AMyeehh....great idea,great bussiness...congratulations !
Posted by: auto manjac at October 26, 2006 5:59 PM