TechDirt recently published an article title “YouTube Is Changing How We Think About Video” that talks about how online videos can’t really be directly compared to movies or television programming, they’re something different, something new.
So if internet videos are different from movies and television, and we see different artists within those mediums, could we see different artists starting to take hold of online video? Director J.J. Abrams is enormously successful as a television producer with hits like Felicity, Alias and of course lost, but he has also produced films, and directed the Mission Impossible 3 movie, so cross-over success is common, but certain people really excel in a particular medium.
Online video is growing very quickly, and I think we can expect to see it gain ground on other mediums in terms of profitability. This could be a great time to start establishing oneself as an online video artist, whether that is as a director, producer, or even a performer. So, who will end up being the first Spielberg of online video?