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Originally Posted by SinistrV6
I'm trying to establish the "food chain" here.
PowerTV works for Tenneco as an independent contractor creating auto-enthusiast related videos.
Tenneco (or is it PowerTV) embeds that video where, exactly? You say "home sites", does that mean sites like TurboBuick.Com - The World Wide Web under BOOST! - Buick Grand National, GNX, T-Type
Does PowerTV create advertising deals with the owners of the boards so that the embeded video can be added to their site?
You say it's a "...user driven program...". Does that mean that it collects data from searches and posts and presents relative advertising based on that data?
So the advertisers are paying you a little (by your own admission very little), so are the board owners paying you for the embedded video setup? Sorry, to seem so cynical, but I'm trying to figure out what's in it for PowerTV. You may have a legitimate product/service here but getting it in front of us motorheads under what seems like false pretenses is off-putting to put it mildly. |
I realized I never really answered your question, I'm sorry I missed it.
PowerTV actually does 2 different things which is where the confusions starts. We offer our video player to forums and actually pay them to use it. We then run banners ads/etc., and pay them based on how much videos are watched.
The forums control the content 100% - we don't upload or add any videos to the player at all. So basically that would be like TurboBuick having their own YouTube and you users would upload and control the content.
The other part of our company produces online TV shows. So that's the issue that is being attacked, that we are secretly paid by GM, SEMA, etc. to post on thousands of forums. And that's the part that's untrue. However, we do sell advertising to our shows, and some of those shows have product placement in them. Now this where the accusations come in. Now, please keep in mind, only about 15% of our shows have any product placement, but this where the corporate spammers stuff came from. Now, this is the same as Hot Rod TV, Rides, Pimp My Ride, Payback, 2 Guys Garage, and just about any show.
If you want to check out a thread that really explains everything in depth, check out a response from the founder of powerTV
Corral Forums
There are two sides to this story. This entire situation started when the founder, James Lawrence, defended SEMA when Jonathan Rubenstein was attacking the **** out of SEMA. And now James is paying the price. You can read about
Jonathan's attacks on SEMA here
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That being said, we are not without fault, but there is more to this story than it appears. Jonathan has driven a lot of traffic to his web site, and he seems to have a real history for attacking people.