Posted on 07/16/2014 11:19:53 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
The Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla., where the Dave Matthews Band is playing Tuesday night, can hold up to 15,000 people. But as Yahoo and Live Nation see it, the potential audience is limitless.
Tuesday’s show is the first in an ambitious partnership to supply free live video streams of a different concert each day for an entire year; more shows are planned by Kiss, Justin Timberlake, Usher and the Neighbourhood.
If successful, the program will help establish Screen, Yahoo’s video site and competitor to YouTube. And for Live Nation, the world’s biggest concert promoter, and the rest of the music industry, it could create a franchise for online concerts, which have long been promoted as the next big thing, but, despite many attempts, have never quite caught on with consumers...
...despite the popularity of online videos, most music fans have simply not gotten into the habit of watching concerts online. By the bite-size standards of viral video, concerts are extremely long; Deborah Curtis, the vice president of entertainment and sports marketing at American Express, said that the average viewer of its concert series, Unstaged, watches for about 20 minutes...
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Don’t know if there are many contemporary acts that I’d care to watch on video at home.
But there are music events I’d watch and older concerts.
It’s surprising what acts you can find “touring” in concert in the 1960s (full length professionally shot concerts that have never been released on home video) that are on youtube.
Little Richard (over 30 minutes)
Howlin’ Wolf (1 hour)
Louis Armstrong (nearly 2 hours)
The opportunity to watch some legends of the past in their prime.
Given the option of watching those or the lightshow focused “zooming” camera edits of today, I think I’ll stick with the older content. Streaming all the same.
The balcony shot “Lou Reed Memorial” at the Apollo Theater wasn’t even a professional shoot but for nearly 2 hours is an interesting view.
But a “live” Dave Matthews Band concert? Meh.
Live concert: exciting
Live concert seen at home: Not so much.
Live concert: exciting
Live concert seen at home: Not so much.
Yahoo Seeks to Bring ‘Mom Rock’ to Your Couch
That’s okay, at least mom won’t be going backstage with the roadcrew to get better seats.
I think the notion of “live television” is outmoded. The shared experience has been lost and we no longer need to sit in front of the box at the same precise moment. Time shifting et al.
Good point on time shifting.
They have trouble just getting their videos to play at they site!
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