How powerful is YouTube? TV networks and advertisers fear emerging competition. As well they should, a recent Harris Interactive poll showed that out of 2,309 U.S. adults, some 363 of them were avid YouTube watchers. 32 percent said it took away from their TV time.
YouTube is the market leader, but on that site and on their competitors UAB can expand their outreach without the constraints of news holes in the paper or the timed segments of television. From serious high-end productions to casual crowd shots off of a student’s cameraphone and everything in between, there’s an opportunity to help spread UAB’s identity as a vibrant part of the community, the place where trailblazing research is conducted, students get a quality education and have fun as well.
We can embed youtube files in a blog by the way.
From serious to silly …
People are sitting on their home machines and producing videos, either of their own footage, or clips they’ve pulled from other sources …
Here’s another application of that technology: TeacherTube. The name pretty much says it all.
FYI: for videocasts in general, Apple is looking for upgrades to 640×480 or 640×360 for their transition to iTunes and Apple TV
