BusinessWeek magazine has a piece about user-generated content and how it’s old and busted now — people really want professional content, apparently.
The newly announced User Generated Content Principles, backed by several media companies, exhorts websites to filter content while paying lip service to fair use.
From the Playboy perspective with Christie Hefner - that true brands represent attitude and a point of view, that can be moved from one product to another. It can play in different spaces.
Web developers and designers for huge companies and niche sites alike are all jumping on the social media bandwagon, realizing that social networking, user-generated content, video-sharing and Widgets are more than just ways to kill time in the office; they can be incredibly effective in growing and increasing audience engagement.
These guys seem to be on to something – probably the reason Tribler racked up about $8 million in funding on the other side of the Pond.
The always-desired marketing demographic of males aged 18-34 is pretty open to advertising on user-generated content sites.
In this wave of the Internet economy, investors are self-consciously considering investing in plays that depend on "user-generated content." In the past, Internet investments were more haphazard. Today's discourse is much more sophisticated.
So naturally, in discussions of the viability of burgeoning online communities, a big question is: why would anyone contribute? Why would you upload a video? Why would you write a product review?
Yahoo! announced two major deals this week to expand its Web 2.0 offerings Taiwan. Shortly after Yahoo! Taiwan acquired user-generated-content site Wretch.cc, the company announced an agreement with GigaMedia to cross-promote online game site FunTown.