Comments on: If a Picture is Worth 1000 Words How Much is a Video Worth? http://www.thebloggersbulletin.com/2010/01/28/picture-worth-1000-words-video-worth/ "The Bulletin For The Business Blogger" Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:06:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris Franklin http://www.thebloggersbulletin.com/2010/01/28/picture-worth-1000-words-video-worth/#comment-1899 Chris Franklin Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:16:37 +0000 http://www.thebloggersbulletin.org/?p=2820#comment-1899 "But there should be entertainment value and it needs to be authentic… Pick a genre that fits your company. Possibly documentary style. Or like a sitcom. Whatever fits your clientele." Along those lines, I'd like to see a lot more business use of video on web pages. I think businesses of all sizes could benefit, entertainment people could benefit and new businesses, not just in LA and NY, could emerge from it LA, for example, has approximately 90,000 Screen Actors Guild members, a lot of who are going out for commercials and films on any given day. Competition is high and the percentage of SAG members employed on SAG jobs on any given day is low (I belong to SAG myself and I am not shy about speaking on this). In my opinion, greater use of web video by business might lead to the more consistent Union employment of the many talented actors in NYC or Hollywood as well as members of the Writer's, Director's and other Guilds. Talented non-union performers might find a niche in this industry also. I remember looking at prices for web video hosting in 2003 and in LA it ran $80 a month to rent hosting space for a 100mb worth of low res video files. To add insult to injury, people could only view these videos 300 times a month before you'd get booted up to a higher-priced hosting package. It is very nice that perhaps due to YouTube, but also perhaps due to the generally cheap cost of hosting video privately in 2010, business -- especially small business -- may finally take a shot at getting in the professionally-produced Web Video game on a wide scale. “But there should be entertainment value and it needs to be authentic… Pick a genre that fits your company. Possibly documentary style. Or like a sitcom. Whatever fits your clientele.”

Along those lines, I’d like to see a lot more business use of video on web pages. I think businesses of all sizes could benefit, entertainment people could benefit and new businesses, not just in LA and NY, could emerge from it

LA, for example, has approximately 90,000 Screen Actors Guild members, a lot of who are going out for commercials and films on any given day. Competition is high and the percentage of SAG members employed on SAG jobs on any given day is low (I belong to SAG myself and I am not shy about speaking on this).

In my opinion, greater use of web video by business might lead to the more consistent Union employment of the many talented actors in NYC or Hollywood as well as members of the Writer’s, Director’s and other Guilds. Talented non-union performers might find a niche in this industry also.

I remember looking at prices for web video hosting in 2003 and in LA it ran $80 a month to rent hosting space for a 100mb worth of low res video files. To add insult to injury, people could only view these videos 300 times a month before you’d get booted up to a higher-priced hosting package.

It is very nice that perhaps due to YouTube, but also perhaps due to the generally cheap cost of hosting video privately in 2010, business — especially small business — may finally take a shot at getting in the professionally-produced Web Video game on a wide scale.

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