Heh, what a coincidence. I just watched zefrank's last show and checked out where he hosted his vids. Blip seems like a good source.

I'm not in advertising/marketing, but I bet Revver can deliver the net-centric 25-40 audience that advertisers drool over. Who needs a TV when you've got the Sift?

What's cool about Revver is that it's a business model for folks like Ask A Ninja and Ze Frank to get a cut of the action. They can host and brand their own sites, and make them a destination. Ze Frank has a prominent notice to not post his stuff on YouTube.

Revver gives producers an alternative to posting on YouTube. Or, worse, have ebaum steal their stuff.

So, this may be a way for self-publishing to be profitable. The Ninja podcast is back up where they talk about their creative process and some business issues.. how they interact with their audience via social networks, plans to create DVD's. Viva la Evolution!

(I have no involvement with Revver, except as a fan of shows hosted there.)

I watch Ninja and ZeFrank's the show, both use revver. Yeah, there's a small static ad at the end, I've gotten used to it. Don't even know if they're clickable. Guess it must be.

They use Quicktime though. So you'll have people not having QT installed... unless they're talking about transcoding to Flash?

The guys from Ninja were on Inside the Net and talked about why they went with Revver. It was a great interview- one of them is very up on the technology/distribution possibilities. The URL is http://www.twit.tv/itn27 I think, but it's 404 at the moment.

Hmmm.. free sample indeed. Submitters are putting in the content which draws the visitors/pageviews. Guess you have our number - we're vote/feedback junkies. Let submitters buy just a little more juice now that 4 isn't giving the same high anymore

When AOL/calcanis wanted the top submitters from Digg, he was offering to pay them. Just saying. Somehow letting people buy more slots feels wrong. And yet I want to support the site, and would love more queue slots, but having tiered submissision rules feels..wrong.

Lucky's page reminds me of the Myspace ugly contest.

Ze has a daily [weekday] vblog that's smart *and* funny. Check out http://zefrank.com/theshow/

For bonus points, count the number of times he blinks each show.

see http://zefrank.com

Some of the items Ze Frank showed are on this site. It might be a while before you return to VideoSift – there’s a lot to play with here.

http://www.zefrank.com/