Online Video Start-Ups Seek to Carve Out a Place Beside YouTube (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

The New York Times ^ | June 5, 2011 | Brian Stelter

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For many Internet users, YouTube is synonymous with online video. But Mike Michaud and several friends who live in suburban Chicago are trying to change that.

Mr. Michaud co-owns Channel Awesome, an aspiring Viacom of the online video world, which promotes online shows about video games, comic books and assorted realms of popular culture. He was a casualty of the recession, having been laid off by Circuit City, the electronics retail chain that later was closed, and now he is a beneficiary of the advertising rebound, having doubled his revenue last year, enough to employ seven people full time.

“People may still scoff at online video, but this is a real business now,” he said over breakfast recently. Channel Awesome’s primary partner is not YouTube, but Blip.tv, which distributes made-for-the-Web series and surrounds them with ads. The companies that create these series are small, are popping up in unexpected places — like Mr. Michaud’s home — and are creating unlikely stars in lucrative niches.

Channel Awesome’s best-known weekly show, “Nostalgia Critic,” which another Circuit City cast off, Doug Walker, produces from his home five minutes from Mr. Michaud’s, draws about three million views a month. Several of Blip’s top production partners are on track to earn at least a $1 million in ad revenue from Blip this year, said Dina Kaplan, a co-founder of Blip.

Like YouTube, Blip splits advertising revenues with Web series producers. But unlike YouTube, which also streams amateur videos, and Netflix, which streams feature films and television shows, Blip is solely focused on those producers. Rather than competing directly, it is trying to carve a niche next to YouTube in the expanding world of Web video.

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Anyone with a modem can report on the world.

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[Halo-JM]

My Brother in Law has already designed Presentation Expert. This system is a Subscription Based video delivery system! See link

http://www.presentationexpert.com/stw/?p=lmnjjzf84e1e4102glip

[Recovering_Democrat]

Popmodal.com is a conservative alternative to YouTube. I think there is a Christian one, too.

[Tribune7]

But Mike Michaud and several friends who live in suburban Chicago are trying to change that.

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http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/469177-Breaking_News_FCC_Future_Of_Media_Report_to_Be_Unveiled_Next_Week.php
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[Halfmanhalfamazing]

If the NY Slimes is pimping Channel Awesome, then it’s leadership must be harder left than Soros.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

If they’re not pimping, then youtube did something to royally piss the slimes off, and they are firing a warning shot across youtube’s bow.

I learned a long time ago that the NY Slimes doesn’t report the news. They don’t report anything. That’s just a disguise.

What the slimes does is advocacy and opposition research, depending on the topic.

The NY Slimes is more ideologically pure than Barack Obama. They’ve been at this for well over a century and they have their formula down.

[MovementConservative]

That’s amazing that they(networks) are getting any increases.

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Old habits die hard. Advertisers, once they get comfortable, don’t want to move. But the move toward online advertising is inexorable and will eventually supplant television.