Comments on: Crowdsourcing, Attention and Productivity http://www.jeffheuer.com/blog/2008/10/crowdsourcing-attention-and-productivity/ Strategy, User Experience, Code Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:27:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ali Sohani http://www.jeffheuer.com/blog/2008/10/crowdsourcing-attention-and-productivity/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Ali Sohani Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:10:33 +0000 http://www.jeffheuer.com/blog/?p=157#comment-6 Great Post, I believe that Scenario 1: "500 user-contributed videos with 100,000 views each" is better where there are some channels, big TV Companies, Movie publishers etc, where there brand attracts more people to watch shows or videos they produce. Scenario 2: "5,000 videos with 10,000 views each" is better as many people producing videos according to niche, as you mentioned so directing trend towards more context oriented web of content generated from users interested in particular topics. In both cases, focus must be on Quality over Quantity, just like any business first we got to retain the audience we have already captured because of our hard and smart work and then try to reach further; you don't do reverse unless you are inventing big time trying to capture the growth on adjacent side being ready to leave what you got in terms of market. Great Post, I believe that

Scenario 1: “500 user-contributed videos with 100,000 views each” is better where there are some channels, big TV Companies, Movie publishers etc, where there brand attracts more people to watch shows or videos they produce.

Scenario 2: “5,000 videos with 10,000 views each” is better as many people producing videos according to niche, as you mentioned so directing trend towards more context oriented web of content generated from users interested in particular topics.

In both cases, focus must be on Quality over Quantity, just like any business first we got to retain the audience we have already captured because of our hard and smart work and then try to reach further; you don’t do reverse unless you are inventing big time trying to capture the growth on adjacent side being ready to leave what you got in terms of market.

]]> By: John Manoogian III http://www.jeffheuer.com/blog/2008/10/crowdsourcing-attention-and-productivity/comment-page-1/#comment-4 John Manoogian III Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:27:32 +0000 http://www.jeffheuer.com/blog/?p=157#comment-4 great thinking on designing around the tyranny of the crowds and hit singles in the mass channel vs. the long, fuzzy tail. great thinking on designing around the tyranny of the crowds and hit singles in the mass channel vs. the long, fuzzy tail.

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