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Will The Web Always Be The Minor Leagues Of Video? (continued)
Earlier this week I used the news that Lisa Nova is moving from the web to TV to ask the question - Will The Web Always Be The Minor Leagues Of Video? And one of the questions I asked was about fame. Does TV exposure or web exposure lead to more fame? The commenters were all pretty sure the boob tube was still the king of fame.
But earlier this week in Times Square, Lindsay Campbell of Wallstrip had an encounter that suggests that Internet fame may be getting close to TV fame. As Lindsay was doing her "woman on the street with microphone" routine that has become familiar to Wallstrip fans, she encountered Dylan Ratigan, a popular CNBC anchor and host of Fast Money. Here's what happened.
Here's a link to the clip in case you want to reblog it.
Comments (7) | Posted February 3, 2007 in Venture Capital and Technology
Comments
Great clip!
Posted by: Jeff | Feb 3, 2007 8:33:08 AM
video on the web will continue to be in the minors until you can watch it on your TV and use the same remote and similarly simple UI that you use with your set-top box to choose content. The pixelmagic and mvix devices seem to be getting there. I can see RSS feeds of content to these types of devices supplanting "channels", and it all becomes on demand, time and place shiftable. if you can get the right content, sports, news, traffic, and weather delivered to you over a data connection, instead of the set-top box, then we're talkin.
Posted by: Craig Plunkett | Feb 3, 2007 4:41:42 PM
I'm not sure this is about how big web video is, or how small and niche cable has become.
Posted by: Erik Schwartz | Feb 3, 2007 5:31:05 PM
I think this is important in that it relfects Chris Andersonss Wired bit about hits aren't like they used to be. An interesting tid bit in the news this week is that the #1 kid name now gains 1.4% market share and in the 40's it gained 4%.
When Fred writes about fame, I don't think of hollywood, but the dynamics of fame and 'hit' businesses. The net lets people find the content they want more effeciently so markets aren't just fragmenting - they are being driven from the other direction all together. The number of people that are watching you isn't as important as who is watching - which is something that doesn't matter in Hollywood's business model, but it is what make contextual advertising in search results so interestingly valuable.
I read the PDF of the keynote that Fred put up a few days ago and it does look like attention economy to me in this clip being driven by who was looking for what. It may not be statistically important, but it's suspiciously interesting.
Posted by: Lloyd Fassett | Feb 3, 2007 8:52:57 PM
That was hilarious.
How can Lindsay not watch CNBC?
Posted by: Rick | Feb 5, 2007 9:12:01 AM
Yes, a great clip but like the previous commenter Rick I am incredulous that Lindsay Campbell did not recognize Dylan Ratigan, my favorite CNBC guy...
Posted by: Andi | Feb 5, 2007 10:48:39 AM
When the quality of the experience has parity, then web video and Tv will be one and the same. In other words, when I DON"T HAVE TO DOWNLOAD FLASH 8 TO WATCH!
Posted by: jackson | Feb 5, 2007 12:23:58 PM
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