Free Online Content For Everyone, Anytime

It is becoming increasingly difficult for many newspapers and magazines to compete with the barrage of online content that is out there because why would people want to pay for something that they can get for free online? It only makes sense right?
And what about all those old columns that people used to love to read in the papers? People used to place value on some of those opinions.

But now there is a little thing called blogs and this content network doesn’t care who the original content creator was. It can be anybody with an opinion or who just like to write. Look at Perez Hilton the owner of one of the most trafficked content delivery systems out there. He makes so much money a month just from advertising alone that he has advertisers knocking down his door to put ads on his site. All this guy had was a dream and a silly easy to make blog. Now he is one of the most well known producers of online media content there is. People recognize his name wherever he goes. How can a boring newspaper compete with that?

User Generated Content

Also with the popularity of blogs you are able to also see user generated content. With advice columns in newspapers you had to write to the person and then hope that they used you in there next writing. On blogs, even the most popular ones you can leave multiple paragraphs of information in the form of a comment to be seen instantly upon the approval of the blog owner. Some people visit these blogs just to see this alone. With that kind of interaction with users Perez Hilton is the perfect example of what blog syndication can do for you. Now everyone thinks they can be a blogger. There are millions of bloggers out there and they are free to setup. Anyone can go to blogger or wordpress and begin generating their own unique content within minutes.

I used Perez Hilton’s blog as an example when it comes to what advertisers are willing to pay to put their ads in front of a large crowd of buyers, especially the younger crowd who is obsessed with anything pop culture or about their favorite celebrity. Popular people with content syndication can make or break the sale of products by simply mentioning them on their blogs. That is the power they hold over the readers of their blogs. People will often go to websites to do a little research on a particular product first. And they are not researching to see if the product itself is good but what other people are saying about it. If the right people give it a good word then some people will buy no further questions asked.

How Can Newspapers Compete?

So how are Newspaper supposed to compete for that advertising dollar? They can’t now people do not have to be experts to write about something and if they can get the following then they can get possibly more readers then their local newspaper. How can a seventy five cent newspaper compete with a content system like that Buler anyone Buler?
Social media impact may not always be obvious to the casual onlooker but it is being felt in many places, traditional media that are slow to adopt will go the same way as the dinasours.

Which ever avenue you chose there are multiple ways to get your thoughts and opinions out there. Virtually every avenue you can take allows for content syndication of any nature. In this first part of a two part article we will look at two popular multimedia formats being used by millions of people everyday at some of the most popular social media sites.

Online Videos

Youtube is one big example of what you can call one of many syndication services. When this site first begin it was not really a big thing. People would just go on and make silly videos. Now there are topics on there about virtually every subject you can think of. You can record events using a camera phone and upload them to this social media site and the content will be available for anybody to see.

Youtube is one of the heaviest trafficked sites on the net. People really want to be seen and heard and they want to use this form of online video syndication to spread their message across as many social media sites as possible. You can put up a video and have several people take your video and put it onto their websites and weblogs for all their visitors to see.

Podcasting and Internet Radio

Not all people like to put their face on the internet for everyone to see. They would prefer to be able to get their voice out there without people being able to actually see them, just hear them. It is absolutely incredible that anybody, even a little kid if they wanted to, can go online and use a media syndication service like blogtalk radio or a free podcasting service to record full shows on any topic they wish. Just in case you do not know, a podcast is a recorded or live show that is done and then can be downloaded and distributed anywhere the user wants.

Blogtalk radio allows for users to use their phone to record shows live. They are then able to save them into their personal account page within this network where it can be listened to or downloaded at anytime. So in essence you are able to have your own online radio show.

People can call in on their phones while you are talking and listen to you talking live. You can even click over to them so that they are able to talk on you radio show. You can add your own sounds and background music. You can have special guest, do online interviews and the like. The only downside is that you can only use it for a maximum of two to three hours at a time and then the system shuts you out.