Hey Everyone!
Feeling better, thanks for all of your thoughts and prayers.
On Monday, we received an email from Brightcove that they are ending their “Free” platform for video players and Brightcove TV. I clicked on the button to get more information about their “BASIC” plan, thinking that it might not be too bad. Well…..the basic plan is $6K a year and the professional plan is, are ya ready? $20K per month. Guess they just don’t want us little guys. As you can figure out, there is no way we can financially support the videos through Brightcove after December 17th, which is their D-Day. We’ll figure something out before then but will have to make a lot of changes to how we have everything laid out. My fear is that all of the “FREE” video sites will be going that way as explained to me, they had aspirations that putting the ads at the end of the free platform videos would bring them in revenue, not sure what they charged, but in a year our share was a whopping $12.49 that they don’t even pay unless it is over $20.00, and we’ve had a lot of views and click throughs. Oh well, onward we march. I got an email from Marc Spagnuolo, aka The Wood Whisperer who is in the same boat as us, he hasn’t figured out quite what to do either but in a phone conversation later, we discussed some options, it is good that we work with Marc on this because both Marc and Charles bring different things to the woodworkers and often times, behind the scenes, there are discussions and tips exchanged.
Looks like I will be released from doctor’s care on Monday afternoon so we are planning to get in the end of our Road Trip. I can’t tell you how disappointed I was that the trip would have to be postponed, so looking forward to it. Anyway, thrilled that we won’t have to toss the whole thing and we made the decision to take in the end of the trip because of the distance and wanting to get it in before harsh winter weather. I am putting together the itinerary this afternoon and will update the road trip page when complete. I’ll post the schedule tomorrow.
Lots to do today so gonna get with it.
Have a GREAT DAY!
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glad that you are getting better sherri! i can’t wait to meet you guys, i’m really excited. I’m really anxious too to see the new schedule! have a nice day!
I do remember Charles saying one time…nothing is free. That really sucks and the cost is crazy.
What I do know is that a possible choice would be to use a web hosting service that provides gobs of bandwidth per month for a nominal charge (<$50 per month) and instead of doing the videos like they are now..(STREAMED) anyone could view them, except they would have to download them. This would keep the bandwidth usage under control.
Maybe sponsors would help cover some costs…if not charging a small yearly fee ($10) for website access would not be out of line. This could be a benifit for some of us who like quality content. For lower resolution veiwing youtube (Free) would be an option,…those who want better quality footage could DL the better version after subscribing. Plus throw in some extra videos for the subscribers to make it worth while.
Maybe even work out a deal with Mark S to combine this content and become an online woodworking powerhouse.