Starman, you're way behind on the spot newsgathering acquisition scene. In addition to what you mentioned, there's Periscope, Facetime & probably more in development yet to be launched. Then there's a new crowdsourcing APP called
Fresco Dispatch and those are just the one's with integrated applications. What about all the existing 10+ yr old live streaming services' feeds that can easily be taken live to air or captured in any network or affiliate media intake department for later use? I've been doing internet video delivery for 12 yrs & live delivery (much fewer) for 8 yrs via laptop. The applications for mobile handheld devices are just going to scale down and exponentially simplify that process.
No. I don't shoot "breaking news"/stringer work (car wreck/chase, shooting, house fire, etc.). Closest thing I've done to breaking news at home in a decade was going to the hospital and hanging out for two days after the quarterback here had a wreck in the middle of this past season.
If you don't shoot that kind of stuff, why would you even reply? Hahaha
It may not affect you but it's going to affect a number of others depending on their location and potential competitors when the alert goes out.
Its not a threat but its a nice option. I'm signed up. . . . Takes about 45 minutes of my time for $40-$50. . . .
Thanks. I wouldn't give five minutes of my time or power up my camera for that kind of money.
Not a threat? Well, it damn sure is if enough users get involved and so are you because you are actively participating in it. Tell that to all the taxi drivers losing money because of the new worldwide freelance driving service mentioned in the first post. What about internet sites that have put longtime huge retail chains out of business because of huge volume and much lower overhead costs. In the production world, people like you get blacklisted and the phone stops ringing for overflow or additional crew work when you do what you're doing. In that world though, offenders usually don't openly brag, they just get caught.
You are an established industry worker with a fulltime position and PAY but are simultaneously undermining the backend, like double dipping. High tech, simplicity and cheaper is the undeniable future but just because it exists and you are doing it doesn't mean you should openly announce it over and over on an industry board with hundreds or thousands that are struggling. Of course, you're free to use those services AND to yammer about it here or wherever but how can you not see that those affected more than likely don't want or need to hear about it?
As I've said, I like your tenacity about trying new things and sharing detailed hands-on info about the results, standing your gound on certain issues and not being intimidated by some of the resident constipated egos on this board but what was just mentioned has always irritated me and others about you. You casually work for less and have no problem publicly bragging about it. Take that into consideration please.
It may take a while for these sites to figure out that the general public is not reliable because it's not the average person's focus, partly because it's too inconsistently incidental. Hopefully, most will get tired of the process and annoyance, give up and it will go away. As we all know, the sad part is that news-centric people want to do it but these sites and/or their subscribing news stations don't want to pay them an acceptable rate. It may not be an immediate or complete replacement but it will siphon some content revenue from dedicated news shooters. The fallout may be that the real news shooters will go away out of frustration and then these sites will collapse and there will be no content, other than from news crews, until or if it slowly recovers to real news shooters again.
Here's another one with near the same low payout. Be sure to tell us how it goes.
http://www.b-roll.net/forum/showthread.php?t=29717
. . . Better than waiting 6-8 months to get paid by NBC. . . .
I can't argue with that.