This could be horrible…
It’s been a while since I checked what the Google Adsense folks have been up to. I created the previous post because I found an item that interested me in what they call referrals (most of us call them affiliate schemes). Now I’ve been checking out an outcome of Google’s YouTube venture. I’m not sure that I’ve done my selecting correctly - if I haven’t, I may be about to inflict upon you some really terrible videos. There are plenty around that make my 24 second feeding pigs clip look like a masterpiece…
Well. I previewed 2 videos. The first was an amateur-quality production of amateur-quality piano playing. The second had the germ of a concept - spoofing video game movies - but gratuitous scattering of foul language spoiled it.
I’ll leave this post live for a day or so, and encourage you to give honest opinions of whatever you get fed in the way of videos. Then maybe I’ll see if I can find a way of passing your opinions back to the creators…
Well, it IS horrible. But I won’t delete it. I’ll leave it up and come back from time to time and change the selection. If they want this to fly, surely they’ll have to do something to encourage people to create better stuff. Or will they? Apparently there are plenty of poeple who watch ‘reality’ TV shows…
Well. It was worth the wait. Among today’s selection is a good amateur video taken in a South African game park. The opening scene shows a pride of lions and a herd of buffalo. Eventually the lions attack and catch a buffalo calf - but that’s when the action really starts. A croc joins in and the buffaloes mount a rescue bid…