AFI has new YouTube channel/ YouTube updates channel possibilities
I get AFI’s email as I have been a member for several years and so I already knew about this but I thought it would make a good repost.
As a side note, YouTube has been updating the style in which they are presenting videos. I have a channel up which I post about regularly here (www.youtube.com/firewalkprod) but I have yet to update the channel.
As I have written on a lot on my other pages, the Internet is the new television and you have great access to audiences through the internet. They are smaller audiences, since the choice is so wide now (as opposed to the handful of channels that were available in the 70’s) so audiences tend to be smaller. Even with network television has trouble pulling in the numbers they had in previous decades.
The reason why is because there so so much choice.
I think everyone has turned the TV on and flipped through 800 channels and still found nothing interesting to watch.
So even though you might not find channel 795, The Knitting Channel, particularly interesting, there is someone out there that does. Therefore, the audiences are smaller (but more enthusiastic) because that knitting enthusiast would have settled for something they were only half interested in on network TV in the 70’s when there were only, say, 10 channels.
But I am getting on too many soap-boxes again.
I’ve watched a few of the vids on AFI’s youtube channel. Well worth spending some time there.
L
New Video Portal For Film Buffs, Powered by YouTube
Attention film buffs!
The American Film Institute (AFI) just launched a new video portal on AFI.com featuring hundreds of videos from its vast archives. AFI is utilizing YouTube’s APIs in order to stream videos directly from AFI’s YouTube channel, as well as other great clips curated from YouTube. In addition to accessing the video content, users can post comments on the AFI.com video site as well as embed the videos on other sites, blogs and social networking pages.
The collection will be regularly augmented with videos selected from the AFI Archive, which contains 10,000 hours of material produced during AFI’s 42-year history, much of which has never been seen by the general public. Be sure not to miss great clips such as “Alfred Hitchcock On Mastering Cinematic Tension” or “Steven Spielberg: The Toughest Thing For A Director”.
We’re thrilled that the YouTube APIs can help unlock such amazing material. Nice work, AFI!
Posted by George Strompolos, YouTube Partner Team
