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Originally Posted by hardcorehosting
Dan -
Not sure if your just represent clips.com or if you own it, but here's a question for you. Why not make it easier on your content providers and build the tools in too do this ??
I don't run any clip stores myself, but from the guys I talk too, I would think that they would love it if you made the above a little easier. When I add content to my site, I upload 1 video. From there my scripts break down the video into clips if I want, on segments that I choose. I can then have it encoded into any format and bit-rate that I want for the surfer to be able to choose from.
I would think that you might pick up a few more content producers if you made your system a bit more producer friendly. To get rid of your segmenting issue you might think about offering your producers more virtual updates based on the amount of time in a video. My stuff that I have shot is normally 20 to 40 minutes long, but if I'm competing with other store owners that have 5 to 7 min vids I get screwed, so make the update schedule based on the amount of time that a video is. So a 20 minute video gets 5 slots in the front page that I can schedule as I see fit.
Like I said I don't run any clips stores, so my advise may be shit  |
Not an owner, just a lowly content/affiliate manager . Thanks for your input and suggestions. Video length really doesn't do much to persuade users to make purchases. Pricing and content make a much bigger difference, which is why we don't set your pricing for you. We do have minimum pricing requirements, because we can't have providers selling 3 gig HD files for a penny a minute, but we give you a lot of flexibility with your pricing so that you can easily compete with other content on the site.
Clips.com was designed to be more store-centric. While we do depend on traffic to our front page to drive sales, and updating regularly will undoubtedly translate into higher earnings, we provide an affiliate program to give incentive to content providers to drive targeted traffic directly to their own stores. Providers who utilize our webmaster tools see a much higher rate of return on their investment, and earn a much higher revenue share for their work.
Automatically converting files for providers sounds like a good idea, but media storage doesn't come free, so we prefer to leave it up to the individual to make the effort to maximize their content's potential in the way that they think is best.
We do have some new projects in the works that will enhance and change the way that we are doing business with clips.com and our vod sites. I hope to have some details that I can release within the coming weeks.