Thursday, June 18, 2009

Meh.

There's a pretty cool video of Kriss Kyle floating around courtesy of BSD and Dig, and due to new online fashions you can now only view it over here.

One of the bonuses of online videos is that, at blogs such as this (Or whatever your favourite online video checking out haunt might be - although it should be this one...) you can see all the decent videos in one place. If your video is slightly under-par (Not saying this video is, 'cos it's actually pretty cool), or if it's a rider who's not as well known and so isn't instantly going to get you hits (Again, not saying that's the case here), then one of the benefits of blogs that pick out the best videos for all to see is that you're more likely to get views from convenience. Essentially, what I'm saying is - if you've got a video that's of, say, a slightly un-known rider or isn't the best production wise, or is just a really short little clip, if someone just has to click 'play' and then watch the video, then your video will get more hits than if someone has to click through to another site, then get to the video, then click play. I'm not saying it's right, but people are lazy and won't want to have to go round the houses to check out a video that may/may not be any good. Again, just to clarify - seeing as a lot of people seem to have a habit of taking what I say out of context/not getting the point - I'm not saying this video is anything other than 'pretty sweet', just refering more to the current trend to set videos to be 'exclusive'.

Just my thoughts, anyway...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

just link from here mert

http://vimeo.com/5211152

Anonymous said...

how did they do it???

http://louisbrown08.wordpress.com/

Anonymous said...

it's embeddable now, bit late..

Mark Westlake said...

Yeah, I could've linked directly to the Vimeo link but at the same time if I've got to direct people away from here I'd rather they went directly to the people who hosted the video, if you see what I mean? I know that it wouldn't be there without Vimeo, but it *is* a Dig video so it seemed fair enough to link out to them...