Free Airtime now!

28 degrees, a warm breeze of air through my air and trillions of streamed video pulse through my WiFi-Card. I’m addicted to YouTube and I confess it publicly! Just like my first days watching MTV I cannot stop with these video appetizers until I’m dull. I hear friends say that the quality is low and it’s for lonely nerds adoring their teenage phantasies. I disagree, although the quality of production of selfmade movies is low, the creativity behind it just beats that disadvantage, that technology improvements will resolve in some time. Just look at Renetto: He is a mid-life Ohio based inventor, whose humour and genuine statements are entertaining. Just remembering the clip where he is climbing on his roof shouting at his neighbours. Just to stand up for a serious cause: World poverty! Hilarious! While for some his thoughts can be annoying, he is one of the characters of YouTube Allstars, that you can meet whenever you feel like. As a business model it works out for talents such as LisaNova, who made it back to where the money is, on Television. The unique thing about YouTube is that is is gives you Airtime for free and attracts with the promise of no censorship. What other media gives unknown people full creative control of their ideas? Or allows as much anarchy as the character of Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager. Clever quotations from movie history, eclectic collages of popculture. Very often you feel the influence that magazines such as MAD or other college humour institutions have had on these folks.
It won’t take long until TV will have little chance against this business model. I’m curious how Google will let the producers participate on the turnover generated by YouTube. Certainly the guys didn’t pay 1.65 billion Dollars for a charity. Question is, when will actually everybody get his 15 minutes of fame as Andy Wharhol promised it to the masses. Sorry, 10 minutes at least is what you can broadcast on YouTube without problems. So when will I start videoblogging? That would be so smooth! TV is going to change dramatically in the next 10 years, eventually the guys who did Skype are part of this revolution with their new product called Joost. It’s TV for free…well, combined with the tools of Youtube for free broadcasting it could be the rise of a new Internet based television.