Quote Originally Posted by sc32803 View Post
And since Jasun from Fratmen is here, do you guys let members download videos? Last time I was a member I seem to recall the answer was no, or you only made them available in Quicktime. I prefer WMV files myself.
Yes.

We recently re-designed the whole site and re-encoded the entire catalogue to have both streaming in WMV and a downloadable WMV movie in an even higher resolution.

Pictures are larger and there's LOTS of behind-the-scenes video in the blog along with location reports, candid shots of up-coming models and of course the 5 LIVE! shows every week.

We finally came to our senses and ditched DRM altogether.

I've been kinda writing a very long post about the two biggest mistakes that site operators make and those are listening to the opinions of people who aren't paying customers (past or present) and straying from the formula of your site. The other side of the coin of course is that you have to listen to what your members want and members wanted downloadable movies and no DRM.

I'm going to add to my list that if your landing page is kinda hard to figure out.. if you can't figure out where to click to preview content or where to go or the site seems to just want money and not really offer much, surfers are just going to close the window.


I recently talked to a webmaster who was trying to find ways to boost his sales. I told him that more text and banners next to the videos and better descriptions that would tie the video into reasons why the surfer should join the site. He said that he got few clicks on banners and LOTS from clicking on the video.

I pointed out that the video had "Click here for full screen" across the top but when you clicked on it, it just went to my tour. Not a good idea.. people want to see a full screen video and you're baiting and switching them.. They're going to close the window and not click on anything else.