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TVNZ and YouTube
Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Politics, TechBiz at 1:18 pm on Monday, 25 June 2007

This is interesting …

http://www.youtube.com/tvnz

The non-exclusive partnership will create a branded TVNZ ‘channel’ on YouTube, offering a range of New Zealand-made short video material from current programming and the archive, reflecting the style of content popular with YouTube users.

I like that this means that TVNZ does not need to reinvent the wheel and hooks its content into an international community. Very progressive - for an SOE :)

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Comments(9)

    Comment by Rod at 1:21 pm on 25 June 2007

    They might want to check their formatting for FireFox and Safari.




    Comment by David Jones at 1:23 pm on 25 June 2007

    Very cool. That will hook right into an AppleTV and the iPhone (when it gets unlocked for use in NZ of course!)




    Comment by evan at 2:09 pm on 25 June 2007

    Looks identical for me in Safari/FF/IE. I imagine that YouTube supplies an XHTML compliant partner-page scaffolding and then partners simply provide blocks of graphics and some CSS colour information. Just speculating on that one.

    What they should check however is some of their old content! To quote the narrator in the ‘20/20: BugMan’ video - “Forget Steve Irwin!”. I will again make an assumption that such a line was written at a time when telling your audience to forget Steve Irwin implied ‘taking no note of’ rather than ‘ceasing the ability to remember’…




    Comment by Sam Farrow at 2:20 pm on 25 June 2007

    Interesting and coincidental as this morning I posted the Paul Holmes interview with Dennis Conner (the one when Dennis walks out) - to the web community I am a member of metafilter.com.

    Nobody outside NZ could view it though because of TVNZ licensing only domestic viewing so I deleted the post.

    It struck me as strange to go through all of the trouble to version and publish ad-revenue content on the web, only to limit it to a fraction of the billion plus audience available because of licensing…




    Comment by Bruce Hoult at 9:33 pm on 25 June 2007

    Nice clip. Pity about the bad encoding that continually gives Dennis a nasty rash.

    That was the first and last time I watched the Holmes show. I felt at the time that Conner came off as by far the nicer person (which was saying something after the Perth incidents!) and seeing it again now, in its entirety, for the first time since seeing it live only reinforces that.

    And of course on that occasion the decision on the catamaran was later reversed.

    On *this* occasion, terrific win this morning, showing that we have a real chance of retaking the cup. No certainty, but with good sailing and a little luck within ETNZ’s grasp.




    Comment by Tim Norton at 9:01 am on 26 June 2007

    Absolutely, keeping it simple, this could have easily turned into a xx million project to reinvent the wheel, nice and easy NZ TV on youtube




    Comment by James Heyward at 8:14 pm on 27 June 2007

    TVNZ on uTube is a wonderful thing . . not . . where’s the business model? Joost & other variations of IPTV are the way forward.




    Comment by Glen Barnes at 5:12 pm on 28 June 2007

    @James Heyward: TVNZ have a vision of releasing their content on multiple platforms including Joost, YouTube, OnDemand, etc. It is pretty cimple really - post content where the audience is and share the revenue with the partner sites. Seems logical to me.




    Comment by Malina at 3:14 pm on 2 May 2008

    Hi

    How can we send videos too you, we get them all time, its very funny.

    Kind regards