mashable.com— The “Post Up the NBA” competition is asking fans to submit clips of their best basketball moves and rate clips posted by others.
Feb 26, 2007View in Crawl 4
well said hooger.participants get:-"fame" of being the official NBA YouTube basketball monkey-maybe a free prize worth basically nothing compared to NBA's quarterly profitsNBA gets:-free labour-free content-free advertisingyou do all the work, the NBA profits. good job YouTubers.
Sorry guys, that's bulls**t. What kind of 'advertising' or 'content boost' does the nba get out of this other than 10,000 14 year olds doing trampoline dunks? The NBA is already uploading it own vids of game action and highlights to youtube, albeit slowly and severely lacking in information (game dates etc). This is simply a comp to build up recognition of the NBA youtube channel and trying to build a youtube community around that - NOT to leech on other peoples content but to PROMOTE their own.
I'd be interested to see how much real NBA action is included on there... NBA.com originally had (some) downloadable videos, which were so tiny you could hardly make out what was going on. Now they have "NBA TV" which requires you to be able to read the hideous, non-saveable and proprietary windows streaming media format. They are so paranoid about releasing any video, I would say that this would be 90% user generated (which YouTube had anyway). The rest will probably be boring "behind the scenes stuff", propaganda (eg NBA cares, international NBA stuff) and a few highlights.
pinabFeb 27, 2007
How about that George Takei clip, eh?Hahahaha.
robojamesFeb 27, 2007
well said hooger.participants get:-"fame" of being the official NBA YouTube basketball monkey-maybe a free prize worth basically nothing compared to NBA's quarterly profitsNBA gets:-free labour-free content-free advertisingyou do all the work, the NBA profits. good job YouTubers.
kiko21Feb 28, 2007
I like the move Ron Artest put on a fan a year ago or so..... wonder if I can win with that.
lemonFeb 28, 2007
Sorry guys, that's bulls**t. What kind of 'advertising' or 'content boost' does the nba get out of this other than 10,000 14 year olds doing trampoline dunks? The NBA is already uploading it own vids of game action and highlights to youtube, albeit slowly and severely lacking in information (game dates etc). This is simply a comp to build up recognition of the NBA youtube channel and trying to build a youtube community around that - NOT to leech on other peoples content but to PROMOTE their own.
jekamtorFeb 28, 2007
I'd be interested to see how much real NBA action is included on there... NBA.com originally had (some) downloadable videos, which were so tiny you could hardly make out what was going on. Now they have "NBA TV" which requires you to be able to read the hideous, non-saveable and proprietary windows streaming media format. They are so paranoid about releasing any video, I would say that this would be 90% user generated (which YouTube had anyway). The rest will probably be boring "behind the scenes stuff", propaganda (eg NBA cares, international NBA stuff) and a few highlights.
operandMar 1, 2007
only if I get to hit your shoulder similar to what he did.
zilch2kMay 10, 2009
A little late but Ryan Moore won the contest.<a class="user" href="http://wwww.fitnessforsports.net">http://wwww.fitnessforsports.net</a>