Timely post on NTV that goes back to the essential question for web video: what is a view?
This time, the videos in question are part of a new web series, Imaginary Bitches, starring All My Children actress Eden Reigel:
“Pointing to the inbound links on each IB vid on YouTube, our tipster noted the high number of views coming from suspicious MySpace profiles. For example, Episode 1 links include 4,463 views from Pam/Jenna (a fake Office profile). Episode 7 links include 18,938 views from Leona Lewis (a UK pop artist). There are several more examples, with each MySpace profile showing the video in the comments field, never embedded by the actual profile owner. Sometimes the videos appear in comments far removed from the profile’s front page.
Andrew Miller, the series creator and writer, denies any wrongdoing.”
Whether or not someone is pumping up the numbers is less of an issue than whether or not one can confirm or deny the validity of a view at all. Until someone figures this out web video will continue to struggle to find ways to cashify.
Tags: all my children, Arts, eden reigel, imaginary bitches, Leona Lewis, myspace, NTV, Office, video, Video clip, webisode, webisodes, webseries, youtube
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July 24, 2008 4:44 pm | 
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NewTeeVee has an interview with John Herman, the creator of the new web series Gravityland.
“With Gravityland there are so many ways for viewers to get involved that it recreates that feeling for me. It is a new level of intimacy that I don’t think is representative in a lot of entertainment.”
The idea is to give viewers multiple ways to interact with the cast and the story. The interview is a good read but I have to say I was not especially taken with the two episodes of Gravityland that have been posted so far. They remind me of early indie film, but not in an especially good way.
Over at Lifetime they are debuting a new webisodic called That Magic Moment, featuring couples talking about the first time they did it.
Not a bad idea, considering the network and the time of launch. They have also made the video embeddable, a vital step that none of these networks were taking six months ago.
This SHOULD allow me to place an example right here in my blog with no fear of legal action. They actually figured out that I am providing them with FREE advertising.
Sadly, the embed code provided (see below) just doesn’t seem to work. Not knowing enough HTML I can’t say why. What I do know is that when I paste in code for a YouTube video it just works.
<iframe src=”http://videos.mylifetime.com/linking/index.jsp?skin=oneclip&fr_story=1582ccbedfef69d4ef7a147941965646743bab5f&rf=ev&hl=true” width=”482″ height=”307″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ ></iframe>]
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