Yeah, the problem is they have TOO MUCH video. The s/n ratio on JTV is so high that pirated channels are the only thing worth watching. I'm sure there's some good content in there, but good luck finding it.
Their launch was brilliant (I love the concept), but they need to come up with a way to filter and summarize. I need to be able to grab 30 seconds out of a video and nominate it for the daily "Best of JTV" or something.
Discovery at this scale is a hard problem. As we get bigger, more people set up spam broadcasts too (streams with no interesting content and lots of links), which makes the job even harder. We're working on it though ;-)
So in other words, they have an average of 1320 feeds going at any time. That's nothing to sneeze at, but the YouTube comparison doesn't seem quite apples to apples.
Not all content is made equal. On average, I'd say there's more than a minute's worth of effort put into each minute of video posted to YouTube. Most of the feeds on live video sites are static cameras pointed at televisions, puppies, etc. There's some effort involved in setting these things up, but it's certainly less than 1:1 with the amount of footage being uploaded.
I'm not trying to trivialize justin.tv's accomplishment, I just don't think it's a particularly useful comparison.
Indeed. Another question worth noting is, how many people are watching? The ratio of consumers to producers is big -- the fact that YouTube has people to watch all the content produced on it is what's remarkable about it.
Their launch was brilliant (I love the concept), but they need to come up with a way to filter and summarize. I need to be able to grab 30 seconds out of a video and nominate it for the daily "Best of JTV" or something.