One of my blogging colleagues thinks Verizon’s plan to offer mobile YouTube is a dumb idea. Actually, he calls the consumers stupid if they get excited by Verizon’s plan to offer access to selected YouTube videos as part of their $15 per month Vcast service.
Among my colleague’s complaints?
trying to get people to watch videos on teeny-tiny screens without neutering the world’s most popular video sharing service…and asking people to fork out $15 for the privilege.
It seems to me that YouTube videos start out ‘teeny-tiny’ on my PC monitor. They’re already just about the right size for my cel phone and as an added benefit, YouTube clips are short. Isn’t that precisely the right type of content for mobile?
As to the pricing, Verizon offers Vcast as a bundle: music, videos and games. Selected YouTube clips are just part of the total Vcast offering. A couple weeks ago, we wrote about TELUS Mobile Music, offering the music part of the Vcast suite for $20.
At $15 for the entire bundle (and the first month is free), the package looks pretty good to me.