All footage from The 21 Convention 2007, 2008, 2009, and The Community Tapes, is now on Youtube in full.
Every minute, every speech, every interview. It’s all there.
This provides a few benefits for both T21C and you the viewer.
1. The embedded videos on this site are nearly all “Iframe” embed codes available from Youtbe. This means the videos can play in either Html5 or Flash coding. Translation: the videos can now stream to virtually any phone or mobile device with an internet connection.
2. The videos now have ads in them. These bring in revenue for the convention. The ads on the embedded videos are minimal and one time only. If you choose to watch the videos on Youtube, the advertising is more consistent, almost like watching TV. You’ll view a 15-30 second advertisement every 15 minutes (that’s what those little yellow marks in Adam’s video represent).
3. All videos are currently embeddable anywhere. View the video on Youtube, click “embed”, and presto, the video can now play on your blog or website. A link back to the site would be nice, but is not required.
4. Youtube is the 9,000 pound gorilla of video hosting. The videos work perfect, look, and play as they were meant to. This includes skipping around the video at your choosing (can’t skip ads on Youtube though, it will make you play them).
Enjoy
– Anthony Dream Johnson
Hi Dream, good to see vids on YT now. It ends the days where I spent all day loading the video up for it to be bugged or something.
I was curious about the ads though. In my opinion, it is an incredibly small ‘price’ to pay for us to see information so valuable and considering advertisement is shoved down our throat as I walk around the street, I have got pretty used to it now.
Why haven’t you allowed advertising on the 21C website yet? Surely the revenue will ensure the21cs future and will also support the free video hosting you most graciously provide every year.
-Mannik
I’m convinced the videos being free to stream attracts more attendees, and revenue, than it shys away. I dont allow people to download them for free obviously, nor do I send out DVDs for free. If people want the videos through those channels, they can soon have them at cost.
As for ads in the videos, you are not the only one who has become immune to ppc ads on the internet. PPC click rates have plummeted over the past few years. This is why i dont waste the space on the website for them. The ads should go where the eyeballs are — which is the videos. This includes the preview videos and the 30 second DVD commercial at the end of each one. Those are going to float around the internet indefinitely.
So yeah, standard ppc ads on the website are not worth it unless your traffic is sky high. This website does great, but no where near great enough to make those worth the time, space, and rate that they bounce people off the site. I want people to come here and really get in tune with the videos.
More advanced ads are an option I can and will tinker with. The reviews for example generate some revenue via affiliate links. They also pull in traffic via search engines.