Economic Feasibility of Travel Videos
Economic Feasibility of Travel Videos
Lome, Togo West Africa
Friday, June 29, 2007
Andy of HoboTraveler.com
How would you like to see real videos of Togo?
There is hope, and I found some today. I read,
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CNN has shut down its CNN Pipeline service,… The pay-service which allowed news from the channel to be viewed online will be offered at no charge to online viewers beginning July 2, 2007.
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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/CNN_discontinues_Pipeline_service%3B_will_provide_live_video_free
There are paid and non-paid services offered on the internet, my feeling is free services paid for by advertisements have about 50 times better chance of succeeding than the pay to play options. With the switch from paid to play, to free CNN is setting a standard. Paid Videos are not going to work.
THE PROBLEM
The time to make a 5-10 minute well done clip while I am in Togo could take between 3 and 20 hours according to the quality. If I paid myself a minimum of 6 US dollars per hour
3 hour to make is 18 dollars
2 dollar to publish to the internet.
20 dollars in production cost and at the bottom of the barrel wages and estimations of cost.
I guess or believe I make about 80 CENTS US per page, PER YEAR.
Voila! As they say here in Togo, I make a nice video and I lose 19 dollars.
What is needed are very good video tools and then agreed on video standards. I am thinking the MPEG format is winning, being I cannot watch these videos because of bad connection I am never sure.
CNN is saying, paid did not work; we are going to do Free.
The evolution of travel videos is on.
Mini-Documentaries
For 50 US Dollars I could produce small video clips of specific topics.
Making Fufu in Togo
Hippos on the River Mono in Togo
AIDS Clinics in Togo
Orphanages in Togo
Buying a Home in Panama
Etc
Hmm, I do not mind losing money; I do not want to continually lose money. I think it is time to try again; maybe I could make a video and look for a sponsor for the video after I am finished. Somewhat a good will way of making a video and if someone likes, they can sponsor.
Any request for videos?
Economic Feasibility of Travel Videos
Labels: Togo, Travel Videos
3 Comments:
would utilising something like www.youtube.com cut any of your costs? Youtube delivers video in the Flash format, making it a lot quicker to load than Mpeg or Avi files imbedded in a page.
Tool this is a Tool and I think a good one, however hard for me to use because the need for bandwidth.
This defeats economic part, youtube.com give us the tool, then as best I understand they make the advertising dollars.
I have lost a lot of data to free helper systems and policy says I do not partner with systems I need.
I can blog without blogger.com.
As best I understand I would put a very valualbe Togo video on the servers of youtube.com.
Good idea, however I think I need and in-house system
A program like Flashget that would UP-load slowly is also needed. I use this Flashget program to very slowly download large files now with a slow connection.
How to get a un-broken 25 meg file up to a server on a very unstable connection is not easy.
Andy of HoboTraveler.com traveling between Niamey, Niger and Zinder, Niger. The bus stopped along the road and the local venders and beggars came to try to sell or beg. I was on my second trip to Zinder to see if the malnutrition problem had abated, or the situation was the same.
Ash,
I have been studying Youtube.com and learned it is owned by google.com. I also learned if I search in google.com I only find video.google.com or you tube.com.
I think there is no choice, to be found, I need to put my vides on you tube.com. I will see if they allow a way to insert into a page of mine, so I an wrap them in my advertisements.
Video.google.com does not seem to resume, the cost is not in hosting, however in upload time in an internet caf� if the up-load breaks, it can take hours to up-load, not much money in the internet caf� however the time is expensive. I would guess the average blog post takes me less than 15 minute or less and to do a video post, I expect about 5-20 hours for 5-10 minutes.
Time is the expense, not really money, however a business is not done by favor or not paying people, therefore I must assume I need paid.
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