Professional Tennis Apparently Too Good For YouTube
from the struggling-to-understand dept
It really is bizarre trying to understand the reasoning behind certain organizations and their hatred of YouTube. The Motion Picture Academy still takes the cake for assuming that fewer clips will mean more interest in next year's show, but now it appears that the organizers of various professional tennis tournaments have been scouring YouTube and demanding various clips get taken down. Nowhere is it explained how having people promote your matches for you could possibly be bad for business -- but apparently that's what the tennis bosses have decided. As one of the people who had his free promotional clips taken down noted: ""Clearly, they were determined to wipe out any information or material that could prove tennis still exists as a sport or, God forbid, could bring in new fans." Meanwhile, the good news is it looks like the golf world isn't quite as closed off. The latest announcement is that, for the Masters, there will be additional video coverage on the web that won't be shown on TV. Of course, it's still limited and streaming-only, but it seems better than pretending that online video can't exist.
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Uggg Uggg
Won't youtube be a boon for more obscure, but more fun to watch sports? So many of those that network TV lacked the imagination to cover.
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Re: Uggg Uggg
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(old) people are
i think its because the big tubes scare them...lol
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Maybe, if the USTA pulled it's head out of it's ass, it could team up with Google and add value to the clips. Um, I don't know, like links to future tournaments where fans could buy tickets or links to sites that sell tennis gear and memorabilia and so on?
My gut tells me that the USTA and Tennis Australia are being advised by others, like the media companies. All these companies are pulling their content off YouTube not because it is hurting their bottom line, but because they want to hurt Google's bottom line (even if being on YouTube is a positive thing).
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why it hapens
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why it hapens
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It's all about curosity and hype...
They aren't wanting to pull down clips because of copyright infringment. They want them pulled down in order to get attention. I'll bet if no one reported that they wanted their clips pulled down they would beat down YouTube's door for some free publicity.
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Get a clue
He credits YOUTUBE for his success. Of course, he has talent to spare, but talent alone gets you nothing. Marketing is what makes the difference and YouTube is doing it for him....FOR FREE.
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Hello MPAA?
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Tennis BUMS
We see them every day and all they do is bitch about the weather, the courts and anything else. We have this tennis tournament here every year at this time and it's a blessing when they pack up and go. Traffic is calm and the park goes back to normal with normal people. They seem to be part of the hip hop culture but cleaner. They at least look human.
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Tennis BUMS
We see them every day and all they do is bitch about the weather, the courts and anything else. We have this tennis tournament here every year at this time and it's a blessing when they pack up and go. Traffic is calm and the park goes back to normal with normal people. They seem to be part of the hip hop culture but cleaner. They at least look human.
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In Defense of the Tennis Tournament Folks...
I watch hockey fights on YouTube and those clips are effective promotion for hockey but you just don't get much of that in tennis.
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Tennis fights
AC, dorpus does have good and bad days, and this seems to be a good one, but I thimk he has possibly gone intelligent. That does happen to people, even in one case the forum idiot of a significant Adelaide forum (forums.cyberprune.com) going intelligent and becomming an admin 2 weeks later, and he stayed intelligent for the life of the forums. THese things happen, although even I never thought that dorpus would do this.
Has anyone else noticed that there is a dorpass as well as dorpus?
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