In the first part of the two part interview series with Subrat Kar, CEO of Vidooly, spoke about the need for actionable data, content analytics data provided to customers, data provided on other video platforms and social networking platforms, geographies covered, among others. In the second part of the interview, he talks about G+ disintegration from YouTube, working brands, MCNs, rights management system, learnings and challenges. The interview has been edited for brevity. G+ disintegration from YouTube MediaNama: Now that Google has disintegrated YouTube and G+, how will the subscriber data collection using G+ account that you mentioned be done? Kar: Earlier, you could comment on a video only if you had a G+ profile. Any subscriber subscribed to your channel must have a Gmail ID, which also means that the person has a public G+ profile. I'm tracking only that public ID. So in terms of data collection, the disintegration doesn't really matter because I'm only tracking the Gmail ID with which they have subscribed to the channel. If a person has subscribed to your channel, I have his entire data. It doesn't really matter if he comments on your video or just watching the video. MediaNama: So when you say that you also crawl data on the other channels that my subscribers have subscribed to, do you do it only using the same Gmail ID? Kar: Yes, it is something like that. We have a similar technology. Now will not be the right time to comment on it. We are…
Interview
“Monetisation is low cos Indian creators are creating local, not global content” – Subrat Kar, Vidooly
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