"Conventional Wisdom? YouTube?"

The Conventional Wisdom of the Digital Age says that once you have a video on YouTube, you're already famous. Then, again, Conventional Wisdom is a ploy to sell various books to the various jackasses, who will fall for the BS, called Conventional Wisdom. Fuggetibowdit! Recent statistics for coverage of the Knights Of Columbus Int'l Free Throw Basketball Championship, show a different trend. YouTube is NOT all that it is cracked up to be. In fact, experimenting with coverage on other Video Sharing Networks, shows that people don't always care to tune to that pile of Steaming Goat Custard called YouTube, Home of that "Intellectual Bright Light", a man who knows how to play to the Lowest Common Denominator Audience, Shane Dawson. I actually found two pieces of my production of The K of C Free Throw, on two sites, one of which was a Gambling Site & the other for the sale of Apple Compiters(I am writing this on an iPod Touch 4G). Ok, the Unofficial Apple Site is fine, but a gambling site is out of the question. Imagine betting on a K of C Free Throw Segment! Please! Vimeo,my home for coverage, drew 1263 views,while Dailymotion drew 1000 views. YouTube, despite the ability to create views without fully viewing a video, came in at 927 views. They didn't even crack the 1K mark. Despite the efforts of contestants to click up views, YouTube placed a rather distant third to two other services, which require a video to be fully viewed. The Vimeo Audience watched technical, Historical & actual competitions, as well as artistic versions. The Dailymotion Audience eschewed YouTube & saw some of the technical & artistic coverage. The YouTube viewers often voted down segments or did quick clicks, not really watching the coverage. The biggest single watchers of the coverage are in Canada. Perhaps, Rex Murphy would call this coverage "Insipid, Trite Tripe." Who needs YouTube, when you can have a real audience, which actually cares to watch.
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