Determined to not stand on the sidelines while Apple made its anticipated video announcement, NBC chose today to launch their new video aggregation service called the National Broadband Company, or NBBC.com. It’s a marketplace for short form videos that the company’s 230 affiliate stations and other media partners can go to and find video to post on their own sites. Advertising revenue will be split between the people who made the video, the people who publish it on their own sites and NBBC. Publishers could take many forms beyond local TV stations; RSS vendor Newsgator, for example, has announced that it will participate and deliver NBBC videos as well. Other partners include Break.com, About.com and CNet.
Distribution partners will be able to select either a full NBBC video player, a particular topical channel to display or individual video files for their sites. Ads will appear pre-roll with companion banner ads at first and as longer videos are included, mid roll and other types of advertising will appear. The players can be customized extensively - a plain version appears at right.
NBBC says that while everyone is getting into video, not everyone knows how to get that video into local markets. It’s network of affiliate TV stations and their accompanying websites will help them do just that, they believe. I expect this means the anemic state of video on many local news websites will change, but also that there will be increasing commercial pressure for such sites to offer ad driven syndicated video content instead of locally produced or citizen reporter type video.
From iTunes to CNN taking on user generated video content to users of video sharing sites going pro - it feels like the impact on video of ubiquitous broadband and affordable video cameras is just beginning to hit.
Video Advetising on the Internet is Huge - The Amt. of Money and Time being spent by major companies on it is remarkable.
I know a lot of web sites have been talking about the growth of vide advertising - especially with all that of the company creating the girl’s videos.
This article covers a lot about video advertising
http://webiztoday.com/wordpress/?p=9
Just checked that the site also incudes a bost about NBBC and the Girl’s Video.
It is all very interesting
If you consider the time the average person spends on the internet and the budget advertisers allocate on the average to the internet you will see that there is a large discrepancy, meaning the market should grow a lot over the next years.
I completley agree with you - the Internet should be a top source of advertising
I would hardly call that an official launch.. the site does not allow sign ups yet.
How original and 1999 of them.
http://findarticles.com/p/arti.....i_55346959
http://board.flashkit.com/boar...../t-15.html
http://www.myprimetime.com/mis.....2000.shtml
At least the idea lived on.
Many companies are entering this space of video and TV on the web or by download. Apple, Google, Amazon, NBC, CNN, YouTube, etc.
Can you pick the winner? Watch what customers are paying for:
* 42 million iPods sold as of Jan. 2006
* 850 million songs sold as of Jan. 2006
* Average selling price has not fallen substantially
key ingredients to Apple’s success as a disruptor in the music business:
* Simple: Single-function device
* Users pay for content
* Apple had nothing to lose and the most to gain by cannabilizing the music business
Why did Sony, which created the Walkman, had the electronics expertise and owned record labels fail at this? More at:
http://www.ondisruption.com/my.....ng_tv.html