Vevo - who am I?
Vevo is trying to keep streaming this week, after a soft launch. It's video and audeo quality is impressive, and the layout is, indeed, very Hulu-esque. However, it's hard to find content. Lots of genre and artist pages are blank. Many seminal music video artists simply don't exist (Peter Gabriel...hello?). Also, after watching a video the displayed videos below have nothing to do with thevideo I just watched, or the search results I picked from to watch it. Subscriptions are the only way to keep my desires even remotely represented.
To make matters worse, there are no settings to state my preferences, so if I really don't like a genre or artist, I can't get them out of my face. And in my face is exactly what the "top" videos are.
The embed, link and other options stop the video when you use them. And to change volume you slide the lever and have to let go to hear the change. Seems they could have spent a little time on the UI.
I assume many of these things will change and functionality will evolve, but it's really hard to imagine launching a video service like this without thinking about how people want to build a familiar setting for themselves. Youtube, the engine upon which Vevo is built, does this pretty well. Why did they overlook basic preferences?
Like, what boat were they on, anyway?
