MikefromSoCal
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- Feb 11, 2009
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Let's face it, thousands of people have had problems accessing Yahoo! video feeds from their News area. Let's take a look at this, because I cannot arrive at any other reasonable solution, when assessing the factual data. Yahoo! obtains revenue from selling advertising snippets. The only video that runs consistently well through Yahoo! News Video are the advertisements.
My assessment: This has been an ongoing problem for over three years now, and Yahoo! doesn't care about fixing it. After all, Yahoo! doesn't make money on the videos, only the ads. If each person watches 3 or 4 ads and never gets to see their video they selected, Yahoo! still makes money. In a down economy, it's a sure-fire way to strengthen the "bottom line" while not delivering any desired content to users. Then again, I guess it's Yahoo! that's "using" us, the consumers.
I've practically given up on Yahoo! News Video, because on average, it works 15% to 20% of the time. All other forms of video feeds work wonderfully, including BBC, YouTube, etc. Get your news videos from another source, unless you want to waste your valuable time making Yahoo! money, without getting what you want from their service.
If I went to a store, and could only find what I wanted 15%-20% of the time, I'd choose another store. To the thousands of people experiencing the Yahoo! News Video problems, go somewhere else. Maybe when Yahoo! sees revenue drop off from this source, they'll actually assign someone to fix it. Until then, find another "store." That's my recommendation, and I'd like to think Yahoo! really does care, but then I realistically know it's all about the bottom line in publicly traded entities.
The open question to Yahoo! remains: Does Yahoo! want to kill their news video feeds? (...and lose the corresponding revenue?)
My assessment: This has been an ongoing problem for over three years now, and Yahoo! doesn't care about fixing it. After all, Yahoo! doesn't make money on the videos, only the ads. If each person watches 3 or 4 ads and never gets to see their video they selected, Yahoo! still makes money. In a down economy, it's a sure-fire way to strengthen the "bottom line" while not delivering any desired content to users. Then again, I guess it's Yahoo! that's "using" us, the consumers.
I've practically given up on Yahoo! News Video, because on average, it works 15% to 20% of the time. All other forms of video feeds work wonderfully, including BBC, YouTube, etc. Get your news videos from another source, unless you want to waste your valuable time making Yahoo! money, without getting what you want from their service.
If I went to a store, and could only find what I wanted 15%-20% of the time, I'd choose another store. To the thousands of people experiencing the Yahoo! News Video problems, go somewhere else. Maybe when Yahoo! sees revenue drop off from this source, they'll actually assign someone to fix it. Until then, find another "store." That's my recommendation, and I'd like to think Yahoo! really does care, but then I realistically know it's all about the bottom line in publicly traded entities.
The open question to Yahoo! remains: Does Yahoo! want to kill their news video feeds? (...and lose the corresponding revenue?)