Outloud.tv
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| OutloudTV | |
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| Launched | September 8, 2003 |
| Owned by | Outloud Foundation |
| Website | outloud.tv |
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| Salto A1 (Amsterdam, NL) | |
| Melkweg (Amsterdam, NL) | |
Outloud.TV allows anyone to upload and broadcast video's to local TV stations. Outloud.TV produces TV broadcasts on demand generated from user created content. Outloud.TV pioneered community-created content since 2003. Note that the website ws originally operating from http://outloud.salto.nl. The domainname "outloud.tv", which was already taken but no longer in use, was acquired by the Outloud Foundation om April 21, 2004 thanks to financial support by the Melkweg.
The shows broadcasted by Outloud.TV are 100% automatic, generated from user created content. Any (registered) webuser can influence the daily show by voting for clips. Timeslots on the broadcast stations are allocated through a democratic process of votes by the Outloud.TV's user community.
Outloud.TV currently broadcasts on Amsterdam Local cable TV (Salto A1 and A2) and in the Amsterdam music venue the Melkweg (Milkyway). The website and program is localized for The Netherlands. Community created content in any language is allowed.
After 4 years of operating on the original system, Outloud.TV started may 2007 to use new '2.0 beta' platform.
[edit] Pioneer project
Amsterdam local TV station Salto asked students in early 2003 to 'do something' for those timeslots in actually in use. The channel would typically show Text TV and the goal was to replace Text TV with more attractive content. The Outloud.TV project was born, allowing anybody to upload video's to the Outloud.TV website, then vote, and then compute a democratic playlist for the uploaded clips based upon votes and broadcast every hour for 15 minutes. The website as such pioneered many things that are common sense now, such as the automatic conversion to one universal Flash video format for optimal online user experience. Later on this has been recognized as the keyfactor of Youtube popularity, but only 2 years later in 2005. The term User Generated Content had yet to be coined.
