Why do people hate VEVO?

[AbstractStream]

The advertisements can get rather annoying. Still, I can just get up, comeback, and problem is solved.

 

[razer17]

They censor their songs, and I fucking hate that. And they have adverts (not that I see those). Adverts to watch a 3 minute clip? No thanks.

It's especially stupid when it's an artist like Eminem. Don't upload it, you know everry second word is going to be a swear.

I do use VEVO though, if it's a song where censoprship doesn't matter. It helps that they have good quality videos, and they are official, so I may as well use their videos when I can.

 

[David Bjur]

What the fuck is VEVO? Some music company, right? What exactly do they do?

So yeah, as you can probably tell, they never really bothered me. Just another shitty label/company that makes money off uninteresting music.

They are basically a company that buys the rights from artists to show their music videos on YouTube. That way, they're given the rights to pull down every single shirt music video from YouTube that they got the rights to.
Things bad about VEVO:
- They have ads, which they need though since where whould they else get their money?
- They use a tactic of only letting certain videos avaible in certain countries under a limited time, and put links to them to the right when they are finally avaible in your country. Just a way of making people go "ZOMG, GOTTA WATCH NAO UNTIL IT'S TO LATTE!"
- They censor the music, though they often release uncensored versions of the videos a couple of months later...
- If you don't like them, they are always on top of the page when you search for the music that they have bought the rights to
Things good about VEVO:
- They offer high quality videos and sound
- Rihanna

OT: I like VEVO, I like my high quality songs actually.

 

[ElPatron]

- Many videos don't have that much quality; I remember user videos that had better quality
- It's profitable for artists like Gaga and Nicky. It's not that profitable for other artists.
I remember videos with millions of views which were taken down - in the Vevo channel they only scored less than 100k views and therefore gave almost no profit to the artist anyway
- It took the "You" out of YouTube. I rather watch videos uploaded by fansites or by the bands themselves.
- Censoring. Seriously. What's the point of censoring Nine Inch Nails? (inb4 artist integrity)
- They remind me that certain corporations still own rights to many songs even if the artist isn't working with them anymore.
- OH GOD THE INTRUSIVE ADS. They are really annoying, specially when they are about 3 min and I can't skip until I watch 1 min. Of course, you *could* circumvent the situation but you'd be also hurting the Escapist.
- Blocking content on certain countries like the EVIL CORPORATIONS they are...

I'm tired of looking at Micheal Jackson, Rihanna or Nicky Minaj.

that makes money off uninteresting music.

No, they take good music, place ads for crap music on them, censor songs, etc

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Two things.

First, some times ads are longer than 30 seconds.

Second... Since when were videoclips supposed to give revenue to the label? Think about it for a second.

Whatever you say dude, I listen to what I like to think of as interesting music and VEVO has never crossed my path.

If you don't consider Nine Inch Nails "interesting" then you are dead to me, lol.

If I could sum up my opinion on Trent Reznor in one sentence, I would say:
He won a Grammy for a song that included the expression "fist fuck" and won an Oscar.

 

[Rai^3]

VEVO has my support- the ads go toward keeping the musicians I like paid, while user-posted videos do not. There are exceptions, notably with songs that heavily feature profanity (which I listen to a lot of), but past that, I'm fine with it.

 

[kenu12345]

Looks up "everywhere I go" looks at op you honestly don't understand why I prefer other users over vevo

 

[Smithburg]

I think it's the ads, the censoring, and the fucked up equalizing

 

[ElPatron]

VEVO has my support- the ads go toward keeping the musicians I like paid...

Hold it right there.

First, the amount of money they give to an artist depends on their popularity. Unless you listen to massively popular artists like Lady Gaga you're not giving them a lot of money.

Second, what about artists who are dead? Or artists who had disputes with Sony/UMG/whatever? Vevo is making money out of thin air, which won't ever reach the hands of many artists.

 

[Mark Chipperfield]

the major issue to me is that they stopped people from using the music they like in their videos. Now people get their videos muted or deleted. Listening to background music in others videos was just another way of finding good music i like. If you ask me, vevo is music sopa.

 

[Radoh]

Again I hear mention of this VEVO and that apparently people hate it.
Is this one of those bizarre pockets of internet that if you don't already know where it is you can't find it?

Captcha: birthday boy
Ummmm wat

 

[viranimus]

Why is it that people give this notion of "Ads let them give you a free service" nonsense any sort of traction? If you have to endure advertisement, then what your getting is not free.

Im sorry, but I would rather live in a world devoid of television and films if it meant that the world was free of marketing. This notion of gaining economic stability through marketing and advertisement has fostered soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many problems in this world and it needs to be put to an end.

 

[Wintermoot]

adds up the ass and take down of videos that dare to upload their music that,s already on YT anyway.

 

[Sanat]

There's a lot of censoring that they do, and quite a substantial amount of content is blocked where I live. Basically because they can and will censor stuff that would otherwise be on YouTube for me to watch, which I have to go to other locations to access.

 

[JochemHippie]

It makes interesting, better and less known music even harder to bring itself onto the market.

 

[Nouw]

The Youtube Community has to hate something right? A Youtube Music Channel they can set up as 'evil!' Aside from that, what the rest of the guys said.