Comments on: NBC’s Second Answer To YouTube: More Ads (But At Least It Has A Name)

By: Just a random blog !

Just a random blog ! — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:39:19 +0000

[...] yet unnamed News Corp/NBC Universal cooperative strategy against Youtube. However, New Co.’s second “major assult” on YouTube looks like more of the same, a clone of TBS’s VeryFunnyAds. It’s very [...]

By: A Peek At Didja.com: VeryFunyAds Clone : Knurów

A Peek At Didja.com: VeryFunyAds Clone : Knurów — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:07:56 +0000

By: A Peek At Didja.com: VeryFunyAds Clone

A Peek At Didja.com: VeryFunyAds Clone — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:34:07 +0000

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» 2007 » August » 10 » Next Great Thing — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:58:15 +0000

[...] NBC’s Second Answer To YouTube: More Ads (But At Least It Has A Name) [TechCrunch] NBC plans to launch a video site next year that will be an archive of new and vintage ads. But NBC isn’t being all that innovative: Veryfunnyads and Clipland have being doing this for a while. Besides, isn’t Skittles’ Little Lad already on YouTube? [...]

By: iMarketingGuru (Search Marketing Wiki)

iMarketingGuru (Search Marketing Wiki) — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:51:06 +0000

Geez….enough consumer-generated content and ads, the truth is, most of these commercials people just won’t wish to watch. NBC will need to create loyalty before the followers of funny content will watch their commercials chosen… I don’t see Clown Company becoming the next YouTube, and yet we have another YouTube clone…Hey, more places for us to host our content and drive traffic to our videos, I wonder what the size restrictions will be…

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:21:37 +0000

Laughed at loud, really. “Didja”? Is this a hoax? Seriously. “Didja?” – this comedy writes itself…

Didja notice we are a bunch of old school “used car salesman” types, oblivious to modern technology and the concept of “people power”?

Didja notice that we only have our college football mentality to draw upon when formulating a plan to compete against the Phd’s at Google?

Didja notice we think people that are YouTube users are stupid?

…too easy, I gotta stop.

By: HyperChris

HyperChris — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:10:28 +0000

NBC already has it’s own ‘Partner’ channel on Youtube, see: http://www.yout...rofile?user=NBC

It appears to be within the top 20 most subscribed, so I guess they’re thinking if they can acheive this already on YT, why not create themselves.

If they heavily cross promote across all their media channels…and make the core focus on on-demand access to their shows etc (eg Channel 4 on demand in the UK) and then build the sponsored ad channels around this, they they might have a hope.

By: click india classifieds

click india classifieds — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:52:39 +0000

now we have more options to post opinions through video!!

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:16:50 +0000

How many times do you need to remind us “the Google execs dubbed it ClownCo.! get it? har har!”…..

Yes, we get it that Google thinks it will fail, the joke was lame 6 months ago.

The especially humorous thing to me is, Google couldn’t even come up with something that was better than youtube, so they just bought it. If NBC joint venture is actually sustainable, it’ll do better than Google Video ever did.

By: No Surprise

No Surprise — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:01:22 +0000

@Jay,

Yeah…. NBCi.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:50:25 +0000

Wait, why would I go to this site?

Its like having a commercial channel on television. Can anyone think of a worse idea?

By: Sicheii Yazhi » Music Anywhere ... Again

Sicheii Yazhi » Music Anywhere ... Again — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:40:09 +0000

[...] is the main reason that the early conquerors get the users. Is YouTube so successful because it’s better than other services, or because it was the first to be popular? I like my current [...]

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:28:11 +0000

If its focused on giving the best placement to those with the biggest pocketbooks – its gonna have some problems.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:10:24 +0000

I guess NBC thinks quite little of its viewers… I got nothing to do when not watching NBC, I want to go online and look at all those wonderful adds over and over again in case I missed some when I got my new TIVO ?

There are some great ads out there, but I doubt NBC will siphen then down – I also bet there will be “regular, boring ads” before watching the “interesting ads” as well.

Jon

By: Frank Sinton

Frank Sinton — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:05:58 +0000

Maybe there is a market for SuperBowl Ads and some classic ads.

I think there is a place for “advertainment”, but worked around other video content.

By: Stephen Sclafani

Stephen Sclafani — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:04:56 +0000

Reminds me of AdCritic from the Web 1.0 days.

By: Erich

Erich — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:49:29 +0000

This thing is D.O.A.

Clown Co is actually a better name, whouldathunkit?

No one, no matter how much promo they give the thing, is going to go to a site _just_ to be marketed to. I will watch cool ads on YouTube because that’s just a tiny slice of the content they’ve got.

LAME.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:45:52 +0000

I love that logo.

By: Ev

Ev — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:45:03 +0000

No, more like… the failure of this site brought to you by…

By: gilltots

gilltots — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:42:00 +0000

more like “didja see how bad we f’d this up the first time? we hope not”