What’s Good On YouTube?
March 19th, 2008YouTube has something like 100 hours of new content everyday. But how much of it is good? During a discussion one of the panelists argued that nothing on YouTube is good that isn’t a response to something that IS good. For example slobolution in response to Dove’s evolution.
How true is this? Previously I have argued that advertisers discover GOOD original content - Toyota and WOWC, Apple and iPod Touch ad - in those cases the content was original and not in response to anything else. But certainly there are some funny as hell parodies on YouTube.
I personally don’t buy into the idea that there is no original content that is good on YouTube, I think there has proven to be AND YouTube is the prefect environment for this type of content.
March 19th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
That panelist sounds like a shit talker. Remember, just because somebody says something out loud doesn’t make it true.
We both know that there is brilliant content on YouTube, and that it’s a great tool for not only advertisers, but for the general public as well. Sometimes the good stuff is hard to find, but that is true with anything. YouTube is the stuff, period.
I love “Charlie bit me” and I don’t care who knows it.