User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki Video Types and How You Can Create Them/@comment-8117023-20170419173742/@comment-8117023-20170419185145


 * > "Videos are bound to look papp in the beginning. As more people become aware of it, they probably hope more people add content."

Surely that would be more of a turn-off than an incentive to produce videos for Wikia? Then again, I guess it may prompt a few egotists to make videos purely to usurp those of the less capable.
 * > "Whether it will succeed, I don't know. Doubt it, to be honest. They can't compete with the more popular media and news sites, and opening up the platform to everyone makes it a YouTube light full of wannabe social media stars."

That was the point I was trying to make.
 * > "It's not all about money. It's also about letting fans do the work for them for free. That hasn't changed, and probably never will."

Then it is all about money. They done this to cater to a new, lazy generation without having to sacrifice any ad space.

Strictly speaking, they're doing this completely the wrong way. They could have just as easily made videos reading the articles verbatim. If it was a long article, it would probably take over ten minutes to read through it all - more time means more ads. Doing this, they would actually be using content that their users have actually written and spent time on and, at the same time, generate more revenue.