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by Jimega36 5573 days ago
A fantastic simple idea. Video interaction is brilliant through gaming add-on. 3 comments:

1) Find a way to MAINTAIN gaming during the video (e.g. live comments adds of people in the room to the images?). That's because right now its fun to vote every 1:30minutes but then kind of boring to watch.. Althrough I stayed 3X more than initially planned ;-) This would allow maintaing people on site too since many people left/stopped voting after 1st video.

2) POINTS need to be prominent & STATUS linked: it's not about the money for me but the challenge & game. Many sites followed this model. When I win, the reward of points would need to incenvize me somehow. Make it big/prominent? What about leveraging STATUS with points too: status changes with results from say commoner to king to rock-star...

3) Consider Consumer Goods ads for site monetization: FMCG would pay to have their ads displayed (what about an ad of 10'' every few where people vote too???). I know that's old model but still there is something in the voting that could be a way for consumer research or brand 'interraction' of sort

Overall will be big, well done and keep it up!

3 comments

You could actually make the voting along the video, before it ends, so there will be no waiting between them and also people can play the whole time.

EDIT: Also, I would add the possibility to recommend a video to be next. It could be better then the automatic youtube recomends (do I think right it uses that?)

Thanks, these are great comments.

1) Yes, this is something I am thinking hard about.

2) Yes, points and gaming like features with player rankings are key here. I would be very happy to hear about more specific thoughts or suggestions.

3) I am not yet thinking too much about monetization, but there are definitely a lot of interesting opportunities. Your idea here is something I will keep in mind!

Thanks!

"POINTS" - how are they shown ? Chromium here, I do not see them...