Topped easily by the 300,000+ views for this!
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Meanwhile, at Amazon Prime...
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It's no wonder they get those huge viewing times...
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Oh! Hey! We forgot real estate videos!
I hear they have decent pizza available for delivery!
Ohmygawd.
A mounted kitchen wall telephone?
A printer in front of the fireplace?
Wood paneling from the 70s all over?
And talk about the Carsick Channel - the pan-and-scan reminds me of what small-market TV stations[*] would do with used-car dealer ads after they got portable video equipment in the 1980s, scanning over the rows of used cars. Between that and the Reservationless-Plus-type music on hold...I just can't....
[*] And Channel 41 in Kansas City when it was an independent.
There are houses like that all over America. Checking out the interior furnishings, I'm guessing this was an elderly couple's home. The largest single demographic in Raccoon, KY is 65+.
A town of 1,500 people, 158 miles to the nearest city of any size (Lexington).
Stop being such a Rocky Mountain Coastal Elite, Mark!
I like videos where they drive through the bad parts/hoods of towns. Stuff like driving through Camden, NJ is interesting to watch.
So this must be Kirk's home?
The information channel at the beach on Time Warner had these but they played Music Choice easy listening with that, so I actually watched.
I discovered yet another show I recorded which contributes to my not having time for streaming and therefore being unwilling to spend money that I don't really have. And I have more unwatched episodes of this than anything else.
"Nancy Drew".
He’s replying to your post about real estate ads and other inanities on You Tube. And he’s replying to Mark’s comment about the waiting-on-hold music played in the background for those ads.
Respectfully, the off-topic dive on this thread was taken by you. You changed from talking about a process in viewer media - Amazon Prime ‘s decision to include ads- to banal content with banal music. You and others switched to talking about carsick videos, walking tours of cities, duck calls, and so forth. So he is just following along.
Daryl, Chimp's also responding to a comment he made in another thread about having too much stuff already saved to watch streaming.
My "Obama shrug" was a reaction to VChimp (a grown man in his 50s) prioritizing "Nancy Drew".
The discussion of what content exists on YouTube was prompted by boombox's claim---true on its face---that YouTube is a bigger force in streaming video than Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney/Hulu or Max.
That prompted @DavidEduardo to discuss the different type of content YouTube provides compared to the others, which brought an example from CTListener, and so on.
The real estate listing was an inside joke. Everyone else here got it.
Moderator reminder: let's try to ease up on making fun of specific other posters.
Radio boards have a way of attracting a lot of people who are somewhere on a spectrum askew from "neurotypical."
If another user's posts annoy you, the "ignore" feature is always there for you to use.
Meanwhile, we can talk about ideas all we want - let's maybe just try to keep it from getting too personal?
Thanks.
Radio boards have a way of attracting a lot of people who are somewhere on a spectrum askew from "neurotypical."
If another user's posts annoy you, the "ignore" feature is always there for you to use.
Meanwhile, we can talk about ideas all we want - let's maybe just try to keep it from getting too personal?
Thanks.
The basic idea that ties all these things together is that professionally-produced video content now has to compete for viewer attention with all other kinds of video content. The legacy gatekeepers have all sorts of bypasses now. There are some good things on those bypasses and some things that are, well, amateurish, or even just cause for head-scratching. Radio people talk about the "infinite dial"; this is similar in concept.
Imagine if every Bay Area resident were equipped with amphibious vehicles. (For this thought experiment, ignore the environmental effects.) Do you think the Bay Bridge, the San Mateo bridge, and the Dumbarton bridge would be as busy as they are now? Likewise for BART. Do you think toll and fare collections would be affected?
If it doesn't throw things off any further I'll have to admit there are a lot of days that I probably watch more on You Tube than anything else, including videos on computers, cars, retro gadgets, music videos, and even the dashcam videos at double speed. I could probably get by with just that if it wasn't for my wife and daughter wanting other things. 
Yes, exactly right ! I certainly agree. You think the production values of the amateur video content is boring. You say the background music is trite. You don't like the music, but Chimp says that he liked the background music on the real-estate ads he watched. It is just 2 different opinions. But his thoughts are still relevant to the topic, because you are both talking about amateur-produced videos.
I watch YouTube more than anything else, and I really like the travel videos someone else mentioned. Also I watch NBA highlights and cool historical videos. Earlier I watched one where a guy in Montana built a 1,000 pound wagon wheel that was for a chandelier:
I also discovered this lady whose “bit” is living in a 1950’s house and wearing 1950’s clothes, using 1950’s gadgets and making 1950’s recipes:
I also discovered this lady whose “bit” is living in a 1950’s house and wearing 1950’s clothes, using 1950’s gadgets and making 1950’s recipes:
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Youtube is a great way to catch up on the last night or two's late night talk/comedy shows in an hour or less. Colbert's monologue, Kimmel's, Seth Meyers' A Closer Look segment, a particular interview with a favorite guest. (Anyone but Fallon, thanks.) That value alone is worth sitting through a few pre-roll ad spots, for all the time it saves not having to sit through the linear TV version, with all of its 18 minutes/hour of wasted time.
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