Marc, you bring up some very interesting points in your post about youtube, I will reply to this in the off topic area as its getting very much a new topic which I would love to hear more about from other users.
I do work in the real film industry 17 years now on Hollywood projects shot in Australia and overseas, I also have video as a hobby for 25 years being involved in a small group of video makers who were all 30 years my senior in a club called North Side Camcorder Club.
I hopefully can comment seeing both sides of the barbed wire fence, in a way there is a blanket over this fence now, its called youtube, or google video or whatever.
All of a sudden anyone can become famous, the audience has a new interactive toy, your little home video may be viewed by millions.
Youtube is just like Hollywood in some ways, same sorts of networks, some major hubs, but it exists without a protective one way shell, and if your video is crap, the audience has their say.
Hollywood can make a crap film, cut a great trailer, and flog it until it makes a return, you can't do this on youtube.
There is a powerful force at play, it gets back to networking, not video, another key word here which only exists on a network is virus.
I will explain my ideas in the off topic area I invite all to have their say.
I have never heard of paying to get 100.000 views, please tell me more.
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