User-Gen Content On Mobile Phones
The WSJ has an article on user-generated content on mobile phones…reasonably comprehensive and well written but no information on new deals or anything. It did go a bit deeper into 3UK‘s See Me TV effort, which has seen 12 million video clips downloaded for between 20c to $1.35 a pop since it was launched in 2005…resulting in around half a million dollars in payments to the people who made the videos. Just as interesting is the amount of screening that goes on — it was known that 3 screened every video for content that was too raunchy, infringed copyright or was too boring, but apparently around 80% of videos submitted never make it onto See Me TV.
that's most probably because it is of an adult nature, where do you think 90% of the revenue comes from?
Screening of contents is mandatory to provide a service that is sustainable especially in countries where responsibility for sxually implicit content cannot just be deferred to the publisher but remains also with the provider of the platform or the media channel. MINICK has sucessfully launched jointly with Vodafone Germany mylife! its user-generated video portal. Numerous trials to publish erotic contents have been attempted already during the forst days. A sophisticated blacklisting of swearwords and manual censoring assured non of them got published. Whereas many censoring tools only take screenshots every ten seconds we believe it is necessary to watch the whole stream.