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By: Peter Cartrite

Peter Cartrite — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:04:06 +0000

From what i can tell, there are multiple aspects of vimby where Chris Albrecht is completely and totally wrong…we are all dumber for having read his blog.

First of all, think of it from a high school kids perspective. He/she lives in a suburb of lets say Philly. After meeting VIMBY’s “preditor” requirements all this kid has to do is drive a few miles, shoot some video of his friends or cool stores in the area and the cash starts flowing. Big deal if its a one time payment. Do you think the local Ralphs Grocery is going to pay him every time someone buys food from atop the shelves in which that same kid stocked 3pm on Tuesday? NO! No F***ing way. Forget the royalties, forget the huge LA day rates, forget the syndication. Its clear to me that these “preditors” are hired to render a service and deliver a product; nothing more. I have uploaded 20+ videos to youtube and have i ever seen a dime from that? NO! Do i go crying to google and apple about where is my money this and why dont i have equity in your company that. NO!
The proof is there, outside of NY or LA no one is going to pay a high school kid or a young filmmaker 500$ for a damn thing. I think VIMBY’s pay scale is more then fair…i mean who wouldn’t want to make 100$ a minute.

By: sarahmeyers

sarahmeyers — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:11:38 +0000

I agree with Dina, since they are a media business late to game in producing content in the online space their strongest advantage would be to get the content on TV stations. I have looked through some content there and they have higher quality video that is translatable to the TV.

By: Michael Mertz

Michael Mertz — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:45:27 +0000

I just took a peak at Vimby.com and there’s no UG content on the site. From what I saw, most of the content looked semi-pro in nature, not UG. If I was 18 years old and someone gave me $500 to shoot my buddies skate, I’d do it, no questions asked. Alex is right, this kind of content has a short shelf-life. Although the content does’t speak to me (it might’ve 20 years ago), I could see them do well.

By: Dina

Dina — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:04:51 +0000

I met these guys at the newteevee conference, and they were very cool and seemed very focused on what they’re doing – I wish them a lot of success. I could see this site doing well, especially if they have the opportunity to bring some of their best content to local TV stations.

By: Adam Reno

Adam Reno — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:29:12 +0000

Hey, everyone, this is Adam Reno, Managing Producer at VIMBY. I just wanted to clarify that the VIMBY nation currently includes 70 filmmakers around the country and growing.

Of our 70 filmmakers, 25 are producing more than one segment a week.

By: Chris Albrecht

Chris Albrecht — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:04:10 +0000

What I’m saying more is that if it doesn’t get more professional creators, it will be just another UGC site targeted at men. We already have lots of those.

And if VIMBY takes off and can cram a million plays (with ad impressions) into a piece of content, I think the artist should definitely see a piece of that.

By: Alex Kanakis

Alex Kanakis — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:44:59 +0000

So your saying that only if top-shelf creators build it, the 18-24 demo will come? Ahhh, if only it were so easy.

Most of the content on the site has a short shelf-life, so creators shouldn’t expect to monetize their creations long term. (Although that does not apply if the content goes to mobile, TV or film in the short/long term — a big if, indeed.)

Also and ideally, it seems to be more about the creators creating content for local consumption. To me it seems almost hyper-local video with an edge. I think it can/will be a viable content -creation model benefiting both Vimby and its content creators.

Just my two rupees worth of useless insight…