Comments on: Media gurus: User-generated content a big threat

Amateur videos, podcasts, wikis and blogs can compete effectively against offerings from big media companies, industry execs say.

[Renegade Knight]

Media Companies have always used OPC.

OPC is Other Peoples Content.
The talent is in the writers, actors and performers. Media companies main skill has been promotion and aggregating a lot of OPC so they have the control and bringing these folks together for larger things.

As people get better at finding each other so they can pool their talents there will be less need for much of the services that media companies offered. The opportunity becomes offering resources that the talent doesn?t have access too but needs. Plus if they adapt they can still promote.

There are other opportunities ,but they have to find them on their own. A place to throw ideas out so that if they stick will make the idea people some money for example. A TRUSTED place.

[mnemonician]

User-generated as opposed to...?

Who do these yo-yos think they are? "User content" is the only type of content there is! Media companies do not pruduce anything themselves out of thin air! Frankly, it is time the large media conglomerates were broken up and completely done away with... who really (except for the politicans) needs them anyway?

[chrismolla]

Power to the users!

User-generated content is a threat to big media? Hooray!

Just get the music industry out of the musician's way.

[Rickb1]

At Last....

It's about time that the BIG Boys have the control taken from them.... It's time to give the power to the people when it comes to what they want to listen to and how they want to listen to it. The powers that be , have had too much say in controlling us through their eyes, now its up to the people... we will decide what we want from now on...

[GGGlen]

I want

I want my MTV