Blip.tv Pulled the Plug on Me
Liking their service, I used blip.tv to store some of my property videos about our properties in East Tennessee. So, Blip, thanks for the email:
I’m sorry, but we’ve removed your account from blip.tv because it looked to us like you were posting videos to our service that had as a primary purpose the advertisement of a particular product or service. Blip is a site for original Web shows and our Terms of Service <http://blip.tv/tos/> prohibit content that’s primarily advertisement.
We’re wrong about this sometimes. If you believe that your content truly has value to the blip.tv community (other than in getting them to buy something from you) please reply to this e-mail and tell us why. A real human being will review your e-mail and we’ll figure out from there.
Here’s the applicable section of our TOS for your reference:
“Our goal is to promote the free-flowing exchange of expression relating to members interests, activities and hobbies while maintaining high standards of respect and decency. In order to attain this goal, and in addition to the other content and/or action restrictions set forth in these Terms of Use and elsewhere on the Blip.tv website, the following content is prohibited on Blip.tv:
* Content that has as its sole or primary purpose to advertise a particular product or service that, in the sole judgment of Blip.tv, does not otherwise have redeeming value to the community.
I am sorry that your community doesn’t, like the real world, function as a normal community with private and commercial exposure. Guess I’ll be posting all of my videos at wellcomemat anyway.
January 21st, 2008 at 9:37 pm
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January 22nd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Hey,
Sorry we killed your account. We’ve found that real estate videos in particular have been a real problem on blip. They’re interesting to only a very narrow set of people, they are advertisements in and of themselves, they clutter the site and they cost us money. There are a ton of places to post real estate videos that welcome them… unfortunately we’re not one of them.
If you ever decide to start a show about real estate — tips on how to find a house, all that kind of stuff — please do come back to blip. We’d welcome you with open arms.
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder & CEO, blip.tv