AOL lets you sell your video

January 2, 2007 By

I’m not planning on doing this — anyone want to buy boring, long videos with Web 2.0 CEOs? Heheh.

But, Paul Colligan reports that AOL is letting people sell videos now.

The problem with buying videos is that Netflix is renting me HD-DVDs for a few bucks each. Getting anything close to that quality would require one heck of a great Internet connection and a big hard drive. Not to mention that Hollywood will not give me movies without DRM attached.

So, that leaves stuff that the rest of us can do. What kind of Internet video would anyone ever want to pay for?

Porn. Even then you can get so much for free so why pay?

Anything else? I can’t think of anything that I’d put a few bucks down to view.

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  • Maayan Keshet

    I can see people paying for good educational resources.

  • Maayan Keshet

    I can see people paying for good educational resources.

  • hadi

    I’d pay for guitar lessons for specific songs.. stuff like that.

  • hadi

    I’d pay for guitar lessons for specific songs.. stuff like that.

  • http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com/ Christopher Penn, Financial Ai

    Lessons from master instructors. Hey, if someone will pay $1.99 for an episode of Desperate Housewives, why wouldn’t they pay $1.99 for a 5 minute lesson from martial arts master Stephen K. Hayes?

  • http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com Christopher Penn, Financial Aid Podcast

    Lessons from master instructors. Hey, if someone will pay $1.99 for an episode of Desperate Housewives, why wouldn’t they pay $1.99 for a 5 minute lesson from martial arts master Stephen K. Hayes?

  • http://www.psfk.com/ Piers Fawkes

    Business Intelligence? Being there when a new store opens, asking customers on the street about certain brands etc. I suppose it’s about broadcasting around a niche angle.

  • http://www.psfk.com Piers Fawkes

    Business Intelligence? Being there when a new store opens, asking customers on the street about certain brands etc. I suppose it’s about broadcasting around a niche angle.

  • http://www.paulcolligan.com/ Paul Colligan

    Information wants the marketing and distribution required to give it value in a marketplace that wants to embrace it. Sometimes the transaction is “this great content brought to you for a few seconds of your time for this word from Seagate.” Sometimes the transaction is $1.99 for an episode of BSG so I can watch it, without commericials (ever tried to fast forward through commericials on a scroll wheel?) on my iPod on the plane. Sometimes it’s way to much money for a college education. The list goes on.

    Scoble, I’d pay for your show.

    Paul

  • http://www.paulcolligan.com Paul Colligan

    Information wants the marketing and distribution required to give it value in a marketplace that wants to embrace it. Sometimes the transaction is “this great content brought to you for a few seconds of your time for this word from Seagate.” Sometimes the transaction is $1.99 for an episode of BSG so I can watch it, without commericials (ever tried to fast forward through commericials on a scroll wheel?) on my iPod on the plane. Sometimes it’s way to much money for a college education. The list goes on.

    Scoble, I’d pay for your show.

    Paul

  • Neal

    Well, I wouldn’t pay squat for ANY video online, no matter what it is. On the other hand, if YouTube, AOL, or anyone else would let me register, make a favorites list of videos and then, when I get enough to want, burn them all to a DVD and mail it to me for a price… I’d give it some stong thought.

    Likewise, I have a niece who’d buy dvd after dvd of clips of her favorite singers from YouTube.

  • Neal

    Well, I wouldn’t pay squat for ANY video online, no matter what it is. On the other hand, if YouTube, AOL, or anyone else would let me register, make a favorites list of videos and then, when I get enough to want, burn them all to a DVD and mail it to me for a price… I’d give it some stong thought.

    Likewise, I have a niece who’d buy dvd after dvd of clips of her favorite singers from YouTube.

  • http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com/ Mark Day

    Smart, pithy stand-up comedy. Not the kid of thing I’d watch over and over, so I don’t want a $20 DVD. But I’d pay a couple of bucks to watch the kind of alt-comics you don’t see so much on Comedy Central, especially if I knew the money was going directly to the comic in question. Would AOL be where I go to get it? Doubtful.

    Second the instructional videos. The “how to…” set up a video blog at http://www.freevlog.org is awesome. I’d happily pay for a clear, video walk-through of some of WordPress’ more confusing set-up back-end stuff…

  • http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com Mark Day

    Smart, pithy stand-up comedy. Not the kid of thing I’d watch over and over, so I don’t want a $20 DVD. But I’d pay a couple of bucks to watch the kind of alt-comics you don’t see so much on Comedy Central, especially if I knew the money was going directly to the comic in question. Would AOL be where I go to get it? Doubtful.

    Second the instructional videos. The “how to…” set up a video blog at http://www.freevlog.org is awesome. I’d happily pay for a clear, video walk-through of some of WordPress’ more confusing set-up back-end stuff…

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    very early historical videos featuring the current legends when they were beginning.

    Some of this is on youtube
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    But for those that are not, they would make a great historical archive or even getting those that are currently on youtube – BUT AT A MUCH BETTER QUALITY

  • http://seowebmaster.com/ Search Engines WEB

    _____________________________________________

    very early historical videos featuring the current legends when they were beginning.

    Some of this is on youtube
    seoptimization.blog.com/897201/

    But for those that are not, they would make a great historical archive or even getting those that are currently on youtube – BUT AT A MUCH BETTER QUALITY

  • http://techoriphic.wordpress.com/ Josh Chandler

    Could this possibly work?????

    Josh Chandler
    http://www.techoriphic.wordpress.com

  • http://techoriphic.wordpress.com Josh Chandler

    Could this possibly work?????

    Josh Chandler
    http://www.techoriphic.wordpress.com

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