I'm already SICK of online videos!

I don't know, maybe it's me, but I'm sick of the overuse of online video already. I've always enjoyed video where it makes sense, for example showcasing what a piece of software could do or clips from a conference..that's fine by me.

But my goodness, what's with this overuse of online video!

Sorry, but why do marketers feel the need to sit there and look into the camera and talk or to stand on a hill on a windy day and talk into the camera or walk around town with their cameras for no purpose. Apparently, 'candid' video has made it acceptable to put out just garage content.

Sorry, but there isn't much purpose for a online video unless you're going to teach me something of value. I'm getting to the 'video blindness' point now where I don't even watch them anymore. So a article, ect. that says "Go to my blog to watch the video'....ummm..no thanks, I already know it's probably wothless.

Let's get back to creating good old fasion Dvd's and Video that will help me or my business.

 

I agree, videos do not add much to the presentation in many cases. Hopefully use will decline in the future

 

Agreed !

Your sentiments seem to echo a book I saw at my local store titled "the cult of the amateur and How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy"

I don't know if this is an excerpt or a review but it sums the book up nicely

In today's self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism is celebrated and
anyone with an opinion, however ill-informed, can publish a blog, post a
video on YouTube, or change an entry on Wikipedia, the distinction between
trained expert and uninformed amateur becomes dangerously blurred. When
anonymous bloggers and videographers, unconstrained by professional
standards or editorial filters, can alter the public debate and manipulate
public opinion, truth becomes a commodity to be bought, sold, packaged, and
reinvented.
Our "cut-and-paste" online culture--in which intellectual property is
freely swapped, downloaded, remashed, and aggregated--threatens over 200
years of copyright protection and intellectual property rights, robbing
artists, authors, journalists, musicians, editors, and producers of the
fruits of their creative labours. Further, advertising revenue is being
siphoned off by free classified ads on sites like Craigslist; television
networks are under attack from free user-generated programming on YouTube
and the like; file-sharing and digital piracy have devastated the
multibillion-dollar music business and threaten to undermine our movie
industry.

 

I don't even watch them. I'll visit Youtube once every 2 weeks to watch one stupid video, and that's the extent of what I'll ever do!

 

...file-sharing and digital piracy have devastated the
multibillion-dollar music business and threaten to undermine our movie
industry.

They make it sound like it's a bad thing... haha. It's time for a huge change in the whole corperate structure of alledgedly creative industries like the movie and record industry. How intellectual is ANY property when it was created out of a mish mash of polls, study groups and trend monitoring? I welcome what you call the "the cult of the amateur" because it means more choice for me as a consumer. Bands can now completely self manage thier art rather than having a small group of people tell us what's good to listen to. The same goes for movies, blogs, news, anything. The "cult of the amatuer" maybe destroying the wealth for a small group of individuals running large companies that force feed us our 'culture' but in NO WAY is it killing our culture - it's freeing it. It's great that anyone can be a celebrity now - it's takes the power and the choice back away from those seeking to control it.

The age of information is here and it's only going to unify the world in ways that until now have been impossible.

I agree with the original poster that it's annoying to have so many people trying to shove internet video down our thoats but like any new fad it will even out and thing will chill. I love that I can look up almost anything I want to read or watch right from my phone! I gladly accept dealing with spam to have so much information so freely available.

I also find it hysterical that the OP's sig is pushing a DVD on making videos... which most would use to make the kinds of videos he's complaining about in the first place. Hah. Why would anyone produce a DVD when they could simply put their video online and chage just as much for it?

 

I agree. Unless you are going to make a nice and/or useful video, don't do it. Especially if you can do a decent job at writing.

 

I love to watch funny youtube videos anyway, there are millions of some shitty videos which makes me sick too

 

I agree, as well. I'd rather see watch something useful rather something so pointless...

 

oh I know, it's horrendous. And nowadays you always get these 14 year old kids making video's about some random gpt site that waste's 2 minutes of your life.

 

HILARAHEE!!

 

I stay away from those kind of sites, they're like time wasting vortexs of doom...

 

Weird, I am the exact opposite. I don't bother reading the article and instead I go straight to the video.

 

I've noticed a lot of manuals now on video.
personally, I prefer a good article with some pictures to help.

Videos some times are hard to follow if you are following instructions