blogTV.ca is looking to be the Canadian destination for user generated videos 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and give the power of broadcasting to you. The service is the brain child of Alliance Atlantis, the same company that brings us the CSI series on a weekly basis. blogTV.ca hosted a launch event in Toronto at the end of January which brought together a room filled of 300 bloggers and technology enthusiasts. They are now taking it to the streets in a series of campaigns including stops at Canadian Music Week, Leafs, Raptors, a swimwear fashion show, concerts, night clubs and movie theaters all delivered with a branded Hummer. Buzz amongst bloggers is mixed with many wondering whether the service will stand the test of time. Today YouTube is the defacto platform or sharing video content with competition from others such as Google Video, Microsoft’s Soapbox and Revver. Will Canadians embrace a video sharing site without without a revenue sharing model behind it? Can blogTV.ca generate enough traffic to make compelling enough for you to add your content?
Blogtv.ca, Canada’s version of YouTube?
Published: March 13, 2007Posted in: Features
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It took me all of 4 minutes to figure out how useless this tool/service/community/video sharing site is. There are far, far too many video sharing communities as it is – why do we suddenly need one that limits itself to Canadians (or at least specifically targets them.) Just a big waste of time to me.
You actually can embedded video on any website. So, the geo-blocking is to allow Canadian residents to blog. We are doing this principally to manage bandwidth, but also because of our rights to the software. I don’t see how targeting Candians is a “waste of time”. And there are, in fact, not other video sharing sites like BlogTV (live blogging). Most are recorded video sharing sites. This is different. And there is lots of community building going on right now. Check out http://www.blogtv.ca. Blog on Blog on.
Although I agree that http://www.blogtv.ca is in need of some “fine-tuning” I think there is a bigger picture to consider. This is a unique site that is all about enhancing a national identity. I’ve grown up in a bubble living in Toronto and I’m excited to learn more about my fellow Canadians. As a young person trying to be recognized in a creative industry I welcome sites such as blogtv.ca because they give me hope. Many of my friends have left Canada because we don’t have the same support system here that other countries have for creative talent. “Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.†–Robin Morgan
It’s a shame that blogtv.ca had to go, but thanxxx for giving us the opportunity to save our marriage, and to get our start in the entertainment industry. Even though there’s a blogtv.com, it’s just not the same as the Canadian destination was for us, so we’ve been entertaining else where. Take care…muah