Youtube and the video rental !
The first attempt by YouTube to provide users’ feature seems to offer a pay good starting point to assess the prospects of the new video portal project: a little more of ten thousand dollars collected with five independent films.
The initiative has so far seen only five players passed independent films at the Sundance Film Festival, made available at $ 3.99. 10 days online received 2.684 visits, for a net total of $ 10,709.16 collection. Numbers certainly negligible for YouTube (and Netflix and iTunes to competitors who rake in millions of U.S. dollars), but has welcomed these first results for: “has definitely exceeded our expectations,” spokesman Chris Dale. Optimism also on the distribution of independent films, “which usually can not enjoy such distribution” and, thanks to YouTube’s test could have quickly doubled their audience.
From this platform aims to create its new service for the time will not have a page with all the potential hires, but YouTube will start to encourage employees to provide material, from niche categories such as education, Health and anime. Starting immediately with the general public should, however, the implementation of the agreement signed in November between YouTube and the U.S. Spanish-language television network Univision: from February to enrich the varied contents of the tube for approximately 34 million residents in the United States speaking Spanish.
