Show HN: The Million Dollar Video. $12 per second

danso wrote: post #2

Cool/funny idea. Why are there two videos on the YouTube channel, and where did its current content come from? It all looks like commercial video.

Thanks. The first video is blocked in some countries. I had Included some funny Ads in the video and it has been taken down in some countries. In Fact I will remove it. The rest of the videos are Open Source Videos (Blender foudation), a couple trailers, and a few one minutes parts of reddit's Formative videos. Hopefully more videos soon from other people :).

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#5

Post by albasha » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 7:08 PM UTC

Dude, people do not tolerate 5 seconds YouTube ad how in the world will they watch 24 hours one?

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#6

Post by spystath » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 7:11 PM UTC

There was a similar idea but with images instead of video some 10 years ago [0]. Most pixels were sold within 6-7 months or so.

[0]: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

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Post by iliaznk » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 7:12 PM UTC

spystath wrote: post #6

There was a similar idea but with images instead of video some 10 years ago [0]. Most pixels were sold within 6-7 months or so. [0]: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

He honestly mentions the million dollar home page in the FAQ.

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Post by zyad » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 7:13 PM UTC

spystath wrote: post #6

There was a similar idea but with images instead of video some 10 years ago [0]. Most pixels were sold within 6-7 months or so. [0]: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

I had already mentioned them in the FAQ :).

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Post by mchahn » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 7:53 PM UTC

I guess it would be more interesting to watch than the film Empire by Andy Warhol. It is just a camera pointed at the empire state building for 8 hours. Then there is his 5-hour film of someone sleeping.

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Post by refrigerator » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 10:55 PM UTC

Were the Reddit videos really paid for? Pretty awesome if so, but would also be a very good way to (apologies in advance for using this term) "growth hack" if you just threw them in for free yourself ;)