.tv Alexa rankings for me.tv

[ownthisdomainnow]

Has anyone brought this up in a thread? I was checking the alexa stats for me.tv and here is what I found.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=me.tv

Decline. Down. Bottoming out. Can we analyze that?

I mean, it is obvious where the spike in May comes from. But where is the blitz we were hearing about. It is mid-summer and you rarely hear about .TV.

I have a site. A real .TV site. Not a quick drop me.tv site. A live running niche site with video content. And the .TV people know about it, but have done nothing to see what they could do to help me promote it or use it to promote what they are doing.

Get me right. I am not saying I have a great website that would make them millions, but you would think, for the sake of community, that they would want to be tight with .TV sites that are original and trying to grow the .TV brand.

How many others who have BUILT .TV sites have been contacted by Demand Media in an attempt to interact on a corporate level with them?

Am I off base here in thinking that .TV builders are the best friends Demand Media has?

Would love your input.

David

 

[TheBulldog]

Demand Media could care less that you developed your site. Period, end of story.

 

[Makis.TV]

I dont see why u should get contacted by DM
Of course promotion of .tv by DM is not the best i ve seen,
it seems like they are waiting for something and then maybe
they ll throw their money into the market

 

[poiuytrewq]

Unfortunately, this is true. But then again, they are a business and maybe don't have time to work with everyone that develops a site. Which is understandable.

 

[ownthisdomainnow]

As I said, I don't feel like I am an asset to DM. My site is a small pea in a big pod. Please know that I know that.

But also understand, that from what they have said, it is in their best interest that people know what can be done with .TV. And for that, they do need to consider the early adopters.

Frankly, the future is not in a "me.tv" platform. They must know that. If I know it, they must know it.

Maybe I am an idealist.

 

[TheBulldog]

No offense, but Demand has proven time and again that they are really in over their heads on this one. They don't know the market, they certainly don't know pricing for beans, they don't know how to respond to questions and complaints, and they certainly do not put user help as their #1 concern.

It has been what, nearly 3 weeks, since we were told there would be a clarification on pricing. Yep that was released....oh wait, no it wasn't.

Interview with them.......no response.

Servers go down.......no response.


Clearly you can't expect them to give a crap about us if they won't even clarify the pricing so that people aren't so friggin confused.

Clearly you can't expect them to worry about your site, if they can't even afford redundant servers.

Clearly you can't expect them to worry about the name pros community if they are trying to make all this into a 2 billion dollar IPO by years end.

 

[boboski]

Wow guys--give DM a chance geezz.

And why do folks complain about DM tools. No way i would be available to develope a lot of .tv sites on my own unless I was super wealthy. To me this is fun and ultimately we might make a little money with revenue sharing.

 

[Makis.TV]

To me this is fun and ultimately we might make a little money with revenue sharing.

this is so NOT ME

 

[equity78]

People need to stop assuming everyone in this for the same reason if someone is having fun ,great. Not everyone here for fun. Just as people are allowed here to cheerlead it up here people who have a problem with Demand Media's lackluster performance are allowed to make comments. SO be plus or minus for Demand Media whatever your position is but those who start criticizing the other poster for their opinion will just find those posts deleted.

 

[Len]

I think we all need to be a little more patient with DM. It's only a couple of months or so since the me.tv tools were first released and we have already had an update!
Remember the old saying "Rome wasn't made in a day". JMO

Len.

 

[brainstormTV]

I've done my share of criticizing DM, but I want to do what I can to set the record straight.

DM has made some mistakes, but they have also earned a little credit. They have released two major tool updates and many of the features requested in the forums (me.tv/forums) have been incorporated (limited admin. privilges and others).

These features weren't that important to me, but other users requested them and they are features that could be important in the future, especially as (and if) ME.TV grows.

Yes, they have said and I believe they ARE going to release rev. sharing ads as soon as possible. They want to make money as much as we do and for that they need ads.

I don't think many are buying premium names to post a site on ME.TV. That leaves normal reg fee names and at $25 for reg. domains, even if they registered a million of these due to me.tv tools, that's only 25M US$, peanuts, and not enough to pay the interest on $220M in venture cap RR raised to start DM. So all those who say DM is just after the reg. fee are... confused. They haven't sold 100,000 reg fee domains, let alone a million. And the profit on those is about zero for those who avail themselves of the free hosting (cheapest hosting I've seen is GoDaddy=$3/month =$36/year) so the hosting is eating up at least half that $25/fee already.

Does DM need to clarify their prem pricing policy (renewal)? = YES

Does DM need to be more responsive and give us more info = YES

Does DM need a marketing plan = YES.
(At the current rate of new site, ME.TV will not make it big)

IS DM trying, absolutely. The tools they have now are the best available. Does DM listen and care about their ME.TV users, absolutely. I still have DEMAND MEDIA on my caller ID from last week, and they do sometimes respond to direct questions in the forums. Are they gonna answer every question? and call every user? No, never. They are obviously too busy with more important things (hopefully ad rev).

It's not just the ME.TV users breathing down their throat, the VCs are, I'm sure, squirming in their seats to see some major new rev. stream (ads. ads. ads.) and since DM is into them for $200M+, I don't think more pressure from us btching and gripping and cribbing is going to make them move any faster.

I can certainly understand the OP's frustration. We are frustrated too. We have put MAJOR time into 20+ sites on the ME.TV platform. As grad students working our way through Ph.D.'s in physics/engineering, time is preciously scarce for us and so is money. We are very concerned about the outcome of ME.TV.

Sorry for the long post, but we have been analyzing the situation closely and we are bullish on ME.TV because we have seen evidence that DM is working hard and we believe they will bring it together with boths ads and rev. Again, I'm not a cheerleader for DM, just letting you know the way we see things right now.

Hey man, keep your chin UP! If it all craps out, at least you didn't have 25 sites you wasted thousands of hours on, right?

Brainstorm/~KC

 

[TheBulldog]

My opinion:

Yes, they did just release 2 months ago. However, any company, and especially one run by someone like Rosenblatt, should have had all these details worked out LONG before they did all the razzle dazzle crap.

The pricing should be rock solid and extremely clear to all. It isn't.

The tools should have been top rate, and completely beta tested. They weren't.

The servers they use should be completely redundant with the ability to put up a simple "Sorry, The Hamster is Tired today" page instead of what appears to be dead links. They don't even have that.

When asked simple questions about how their pricing structure works and please clarify, we get nonsense responses and to my knowledge, still don't have one.

Advertising? Nope.

Alliances with the big three tv networks? Nada (And due to a relative, I can tell you the biggest one has ZERO plans for using .tv right now or anytime soon)

Realistic Competition for Myspace/Facebook/Youtube? Not a chance as long as they charge for the name. Simply put, what they should do is this: Want a "joeblow.me.tv?" That is Free. Want it without me.tv? Then that is premium. Can they even do that? They sure could, but I doubt seriously that their servers could handle the load if they went over 20K customers.

Am I basing my whole plan on the folks at demand media? Absolutely not. However, the folks running the tv extension, (Who was that again, oh yes, demand media), can't seem to work out a coherent business plan with support, redundancy, and clear pricing, so I have concerns about who will actually be running tv down the road.

Also, Demand has said they plan to IPO by the end of the year for 2 Billion. Checked the filings lately? I have, they haven't filed. The likely hood of anyone taking them seriously by the end of the year if they haven't even filed a simple plan is zilch.

No, a caveat: I am not angry, although it may type like that. What I am is saddened that something that should be running well is simply seemingly not really being worked at all by the company running it. People keep saying "They just launched, give them time"......well hang on, hasn't Demand been around since early LAST year? And this is all they have managed to get done so far? Basically this is what we have seen:

A) A lot of hype.
B) A server platform that isn't redundant.
C) Tools that are workable, but a template system that is butt ugly on a good day.

My take is that Demand has given a LOT of lip service, but as soon as people started asking serious questions, they have simply vansihed from answering any of them. If that doesn't concern you, it should.

 

[*AllThings.tv*]

Alexa is not very accurate. There are countless discussions about this on the Internet.

My feelings on me.tv are that its only been around a short period of time, DM is spending its time and resources to develop the sort of relationships that will give it exposure you cannot pay for. That exposure is not designed to connect with you or I, or anyone on this forum. It is the myspace/youtube generation. If you belong to that generation, then you might have a few criticisms about what me.tv fails to deliver.

To those, I say give them a chance to further enhance me.tv's offerings. The game is not over, it has just begun. If you want to make money from your .tv names, you will be able to do it faster by developing them yourself, IMHO.