Tarmack
Rhetorical Porcupine
I've had a general channel concept percolating for a while and I wanted to get some feedback on the design.
Right now, the method of content generation on YouTube is largely random followed by a significant amount of bandwagoning. This results in oversaturation of some things and difficulty in finding content for others.
So here's the concept. A channel that overtly operates on requests, but requests with a twist. So, say every week, a set of 2 or 3 preview videos will be released. The viewers have the ability to vote simply by putting comments on one of the preview videos. This voting determines the content of the next video. Now, obviously it can't be a straight up open vote because everything would end up minecraft. Some types of video concepts would be Let's Play, guest player with main commentary critique, review, first impressions, trolling, etc.
Each voting round would involve a selection of games. I'm unsure on the technical parts right now, but it could well be done via annotations rather than comments. So, the viewers would pick the type of video and the game, which then gives the content creators their direction for the next video.
The end line would be a website unto itself, with wider search and voting options.
Just curious to see what people thought of the concept. There are obvious pitfalls, but this isn't my first time around the bend and I've identified most of them for potential future avoidance. The website concept itself would probably cost $5,000-$10,000 to build. But doing the small scale version on a YouTube channel itself would cost next to nothing.
Right now, the method of content generation on YouTube is largely random followed by a significant amount of bandwagoning. This results in oversaturation of some things and difficulty in finding content for others.
So here's the concept. A channel that overtly operates on requests, but requests with a twist. So, say every week, a set of 2 or 3 preview videos will be released. The viewers have the ability to vote simply by putting comments on one of the preview videos. This voting determines the content of the next video. Now, obviously it can't be a straight up open vote because everything would end up minecraft. Some types of video concepts would be Let's Play, guest player with main commentary critique, review, first impressions, trolling, etc.
Each voting round would involve a selection of games. I'm unsure on the technical parts right now, but it could well be done via annotations rather than comments. So, the viewers would pick the type of video and the game, which then gives the content creators their direction for the next video.
The end line would be a website unto itself, with wider search and voting options.
Just curious to see what people thought of the concept. There are obvious pitfalls, but this isn't my first time around the bend and I've identified most of them for potential future avoidance. The website concept itself would probably cost $5,000-$10,000 to build. But doing the small scale version on a YouTube channel itself would cost next to nothing.
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It's just using hooks in Wordpress is a royal pain in the keister for something this big. As much as I love Wordpress I agree, hard coded = the way to go.
It's something you could learn!