Short amateur video creation. An interesting concept. You make a short video, say 30 to 90 seconds long, and people watch it, then they tell their friends to watch it, and suddenly you are famous and can give up the day job. Why does that not happen more? The only metric that ultimately matters to the consumer is "was that the best use of the 60 seconds I devoted to it?" if someone has made something that is "better"(*) to watch then they get the attention, and that drives the onward recommendation engine and before you know it, that "better" video has 6m hits and you have 600 (from your 1st and 2nd circle friends only, usually). What is the solution?    more »