Comments on: Momentum Video Magazine Switching To A Free Format

By: MVM Going Free This Week | Climbing Narcissist

MVM Going Free This Week | Climbing Narcissist — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:53:18 +0000

[...] on the MVM site that the paid premium section would be going away by the first week of September (as I had reported back in July). I for one can’t wait to see what they come up with for their newest rollout. There [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:13:33 +0000

Excited to see this all take place. I think it was a fantastic idea on their part.

By: bj sbarra

bj sbarra — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:42:47 +0000

Good stuff. I think we talked about this, it takes a LOT of traffic to make the subscription model work, and usually you have to build it up before you can even think of going down that road. I’m sure this will work out a lot better for these guys, glad to see someone there is paying attention.

By: Narc

Narc — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:17:17 +0000

Ahh yes, I remember that well Peter. I too am surprised it took this long.

I would argue that the videos are of better quality than your standard google or youtube videos though…at least the premium section ones.

By: peter beal

peter beal — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:09:04 +0000

In November 2007, I wrote,
“Momentum Video is trying out a pay-to-watch plan for its videos. A quick visit to the site reinforces my belief that the viewers should be paid to watch climbing videos. Every minute spent waiting for a tiny grainy video of a (usually) well-paid white guy hanging onto rocks is time you will never have back. I’m not sensing this business model is going to fly”

http://mountainsandwater.blogspot.com/2007/11/hiatus-from-blogging.html

Having posted a number of grainy videos to my own blog, I am more convinced that the words above are justified. Except the well-paid part. Looking forward to the new version of the site however. The traffic will increase exponentially and the ad revenue accordingly. Can’t believe they held out this long.