Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Reality.tv, the Advertiser-Friendly User-Generated Video Site

Veteran reality TV producer Vin Di Bona is launching Reality.tv, a Web site offering an advertiser-friendly spin on user-generated content. The site will be powered by Dave Networks social networking and video technology and will allow users to submit home videos to be voted on and viewed by others. User-generated content and amateur videos have been popular on the Web for several years, most notably on Google's YouTube, but many advertisers shy away from the genre, finding the content too risky to monetize. With Reality.tv, Di Bona, the executive producer of ABC's long-running America's Funniest Home Videos, said his relationships with advertisers combined with a platform from Dave Networks, whose clients include ABC and CBS, will provide an "entertaining, family-friendly and appropriate" platform for marketers.
http://www.news.com/Veteran-producer-dials-in-Reality.tv/2100-1026_3-6228208.html?tag=nefd.top

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