Comments on: Totlol Developer Forced To Shut Down Video Service For Kids

By: mynameis

mynameis — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:59:00 +0000

Oh, I just saw, membership was introduced.

Why not, it makes sense, I would be willing as a parent to pay for a service that selects and filters videos appropriate for my kids.

I don’t have kids yet, but I would be anyway

Good luck to the site.

By: mynameis

mynameis — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:52:48 +0000

It’s still up, so somebody must have helped out

Any news ?

By: durann

durann — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:43:45 +0000

Where can I find someone capable of adding a database to my website or building a site like totlol… dnfi@comcast.net

By: Melissa Kay

Melissa Kay — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:02:30 +0000

This seems like a really hot space with the recent launch of ZuiTube (http://video.kidzui.com/) by Kidzui. That said, my favorite kids video site remains Kideos (http://kideos.com/).

By: Don Henning

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:36:35 +0000

I don’t see why it requires one to sign up to view videos. That should only happen if the user wants to customize their experience (build a list of favorite vids, make friends, get their own vids from YouTube, etc).

To force a signup just to view the very first video surely turns away a lot of potential users.

As for advertising, I think the person that said $375/month was about right. You need a lot of traffic (or a great sales team) to make money off ads.

By: Don Henning

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:33:33 +0000

What would it cost to keep it going? Seems he is giving up too fast.

By: How a kids video start-up stays afloat | Mac Bargains

How a kids video start-up stays afloat | Mac Bargains — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:23:11 +0000

[...] woke up to hundreds of messages,” he says. While Ilan was asleep, TechCrunch wrote a short post about the closing of Totlol and “they stirred things up,” says [...]

By: Freetracking.org » How a kids video start-up stays afloat

Freetracking.org » How a kids video start-up stays afloat — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:07:49 +0000

[...] woke up to hundreds of messages,” he says. While Ilan was asleep, TechCrunch wrote a short post about the closing of Totlol and “they stirred things up,” says Ilan. [...]

By: How a kids video start-up stays afloat | Blogging

How a kids video start-up stays afloat | Blogging — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:43:16 +0000

[...] woke up to hundreds of messages,” he says. While Ilan was asleep, TechCrunch wrote a short post about the closing of Totlol and “they stirred things up,” says [...]

By: Carol Duke

Carol Duke — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:03:57 +0000

Thanks for telling us about Kideos.com. I checked it out and my two kids absolutely loved their videos! My kids are huge fans of Elmo, Thomas the Tank Engine and Dr. Seuss. I bookmarked Kideos and know that I’ll be going back to it a lot in the future.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:10:52 +0000

With youtube hosting all the content, you do not have to worry about copyright legalities. That in itself would be a huge reason not to do that.. especially if you don’t have a legal department on hand.

By: John Strauss

John Strauss — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:30:52 +0000

Totlol was a nice site, but apparently lacked a sustainable business model. Since this article, I found a new kids video site that my children actually prefer. It’s called http://www.Kideos.com.

By: Eric Borgos

Eric Borgos — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:47:37 +0000

It seems like a total waste for him to shut his site down, so I would be interested in buying it instead. The content is a good fit to add to my Virtual Pets site for kids at Adoptme.com. I currently own over 200 websites and have bought and sold over 100 websites in the past 5 years. I filled out the Contact Us form on the TotLol website now about it.

By: tim

tim — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:42:55 +0000

If they were allowed to charge for their service as a youtube filter, as a parent who loves using it, I would have gladly paid a monthly fee.

By: kadaharah

kadaharah — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:37:40 +0000

150,000 per month? Try 24,000 (http://siteanal...com/totlol.com/)

By: kadaharah

kadaharah — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:34:31 +0000

Why would any company sponsor this?

Look at the Alexa stats, it gets almost no traffic. There is no proprietary technology, indeed, it is something that one guy can put together in an evening using some apis and free open source software.

The company would be better off hiring someone in India to clone this, which would cost at most US$500. They can then launch in under their own brand instead of a hard to spell brand.

There is nothing special about this that someone with some basic development skills cannot put together in a few hours.

It belongs in the Deadpool for sure.

By: johnf

johnf — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:49:45 +0000

whoa. it was take 20 years to earn that back, if ever.

By: Totlol cierra

Totlol cierra — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:56:59 +0000

[...] un agregador de vídeo que reunía los mejores contenidos de Youtube aptos para niños, ha anunciado su cierre. Los contenidos estaban generados por padres y niños y el sitio constituía una buena alternativa [...]

By: Amitzur

Amitzur — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:34:45 +0000

A parental Sympathy

By: Jon Kepler

Jon Kepler — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:32:25 +0000

Why doesn’t he turn it into a non-profit? Worked for Wikipedia.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:28:36 +0000

I guess you’ve never worked in advertising before

By: Mircea @ MyTestBox.com

Mircea @ MyTestBox.com — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:50:20 +0000

I’d buy it …

By: stu

stu — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:20:02 +0000

Have you lost the plot ? $300k for a site with crap traffic and website you could build in a few days and thats being generous………i got plenty of sites you can have with 10 or 20 times more traffic….this site is worth 2-3K max………

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:05:23 +0000

I offered him $300k let see what happens

By: BombayNinja

BombayNinja — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:52:43 +0000

Since it’s for kids I will agree with you that parents will pay. But don’t go about extending this logic to regular websites.