13097772:illmoney said:^
Correct me if I'm wrong but if Freeskier posts a video that is embedded on NS, aren't they essentially running ads for newschoolers? I do agree that all ski media should be shared freely and openly and we should all be friends, but if you're running a business you're not going to want to hand over revenue to your competition.
13097792:Mr.Bishop said:If they post a YouTube video with an ad, how is that different?
The company that invests in the infrastructure of video hosting gets the revenue from the ads associated. This is the way of the internet, no?
13097772:illmoney said:^
Correct me if I'm wrong but if Freeskier posts a video that is embedded on NS, aren't they essentially running ads for newschoolers? I do agree that all ski media should be shared freely and openly and we should all be friends, but if you're running a business you're not going to want to hand over revenue to your competition.
http://freeskier.com/the-wire/harlaut-casabons-teasers-live-film-tour-info13097179:Tabarnak Pack said:How can you claim "This is Skiing" and not share Phil or Henrik's teaser? Can we talk about how crazy that is?
BOTH OF THEM HAVE HAD COVERS!
13098034:Coityy said:http://freeskier.com/the-wire/harlaut-casabons-teasers-live-film-tour-info
13097274:BWalmer said:In an interesting twist of events...this just got posted/tweeted:http://freeskier.com/the-wire/harlaut-casabons-teasers-live-film-tour-info
13097224:StangelDangle said:Hes in the portal again!
13097963:Mr.Bishop said:The other thing to think about is the ads cover the investment in video technology. Same reason that YouTube runs ads - YouTube has invested in free video hosting technology so they can run ads off of it. Our video technology has cost us an enormous amount of money and labor to build.
Part of what we offer is that running ads in a newschoolers video player pays the producers that make content. So if you embed an Inspired player (which is completely newschoolers branding free) - and an ad runs - Inspired makes half that revenue.
So another site refusing to embed that producer's video is actually causing direct harm to that production company and its athletes.
13099070:METH-CANCER said:Doesn't Harvey still work for Freeskier? What is this bullshit?
13099615:iggyskier said:
13099123:illmoney said:This is why I said correct me if I'm wrong, I know nothing about the internet compared to you, and I'm being completely serious. I was just coming from a complete business standpoint, and while "another site refusing to embed that producer's video is actually causing direct harm to that production company and its athletes" is completely true, it's also not helping their direct competition, which is NS.
Of course they want to post the most recent content and help promote Inspired, but clearly they were just holding out until the teasers were hosted more neutrally.
Again, I am 100% a supporter of both NS (Member #2303) and Freeskier and I would love to see everyone get along, but you have to remember there is a business to be run and competition is part of that.