WeShow, a video site that launched five months ago that distinguishes itself from YouTube by having the videos it plays carefully selected by an editorial board and listed in content channels, introduced My WeShow on Feb. 6, a video social network that will allow users to post their own video communities, which will be supported by advertising from Google AdSense. Advertising revenue will be shared with the users.
My WeShow already has 2,500 video communities posted, according to Marcos Wettreich, CEO and founder of WeShow. When asked how people will find them, he said it would occur via Google searches on video topics. They can also be accessed from a Members column on the My WeShow page, which is accessible at Weshow.com.
Advertising will play on video community pages like it plays on any web page affiliated with Google.
Wettreich said there will be other potential avenues for advertising revenue, including sponsorship packages for advertisers interested in buying community pages by subjects, agreements with ecommerce sites for click throught to products offered on video community pages and fees paid by large video sites like AOL to play their videos on the community pages. Ad networks will be used to sell the sponsorship packages, Wettreich said.
He also said video advertising can be used, but only through Google AdSense. Google just began playing AdSense video ads.
Wettreich sees My WeShow as the social network for video aficionados. “My WeShow could do for the online video universe what Flickr has accomplished for photography,” he said. “It will make it simple and easy for anyone to use online video to express themselves and create a community of interest around a single topic.”
My We Show will appeal to an international audience with portals dedicated to the U.S., U.K., Brazil, Germany, Spain, France, Japan and China.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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