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Why MSM Online Video Sites Suck

July 31, 2007 by Mike Abundo  
Filed under Computers, Television

Liz Gannes notes that the recent failures of mainstream media online video sites demonstrate something audiences have known all along: design by committee and distribution in walled gardens, two things that work for TV, don’t work for online video.

Learn from CBS, TV dinosaurs: creative independence and superdistribution are the real keys to success inside online video. Anything else is waddling too slow in a little tar pit.

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3 Responses to “Why MSM Online Video Sites Suck”
  1. DH Fan says:

    its is useless and unsuccessful vs. public video sites, it doesn’t even allow viewers outside the US/Canada to view episodes online

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