KicKRaTT Videos

Keys to the Lock by KicKRaTT on Vimeo

My videos are published on three sites; YouTube, Odysee & Vimeo. All of the pure data patch demonstration videos are only on YouTube. On Odysee & Vimeo are the music videos for Traveller, Arboreal, Chrysalis & Keys to The Lock. On Odysee & YouTube you will only find the original DAY video. Odysee & Vimeo are pretty identical in that they host videos, account for the number of views & offer embedded video players. Of all of the video players I really like the Vimeo embedded player. The vimeo player will serve up to the viewer only the videos you have upload to your account. This is great keeping your audience focused. Odysee is the second best, they will serve up to your viewer both your videos and other life videos. YouTube will serve up what ever YouTube wants to serve up. I have stopped trying to figure the YouTube player out.

AI checking system for content validity or copy-write infringement has become quite the nuisance on YouTube. I first noticed with the DAY video that YouTube started taking away views. Turning the video on & off from viewing, other viewing anomalies occurred that make the reliability of the video problematic if for whatever reason YouTube's AI checker has an issue with your content. When I released my Traveller video on YouTube, the system's checking against the video just became such a nuisance and annoying in it's relationship to my need to release Traveller to the KicKRaTT SoundClick page. So, I had to move all the performance videos to Vimeo, and so far, I haven't had one viewing issue yet. Like I mentioned above, the embedded Vimeo video player, after one of my videos has played, it prompts the viewer if they want to watch my other videos. That's Awesome! compared to YouTube which attempts to serve up the viewer some other video of no relationship to my work. Also, unlike YouTube, no advertising on the Vimeo player. If I am not attempting to make money off of YouTube, then why is YouTube attempting to make money off of my videos. If a video viewing audience is so small that no one is making money off advertising then get the advertising off of the video. There should be some sort of settings option on the YouTube account that makes this choice clear. Where if selected, YouTube is just a host for videos playing on the internet. YouTube would probably tell me to set up a paid account for Video hosting. But where is this option visibly presented? No Where!

My SoundClick album has really become my first presentation of the KicKRaTT concept so to speak. The music and related videos for the songs can all be accessed here in solid presentation without any sort of opposing advertising or interference. Thank you SoundClick & Vimeo for making this available to musicians. I highly recommend the two when constructing an internet album concept.

Uploading music videos to TikTok was a lost cause. The videos after upload just sat there. I'm guessing that unless you have enough followers to get some sort of TikTok traction, which I didn't have. You content goes nowhere! TikTok like YouTube and SoundCloud run this same game against the creators. You must have zillions of followers & subscribers to get your creations traction. Maybe one day these sites will understand that an artist spends their time presenting art not running around telling people about it.

I don't think TikTok wants to be a platform for music, more a carnival for social activity. Yet they are giving the platform to service & product sales, so there's some hypocrisy for ya. Update on the KicKRaTT TikTok account...my account has been suspended. All internet searches for "tiktok account suspended" returns inappropriate video statements. So the videos for Arboreal, Keys to The Lock & Traveller are inappropriate? Doesn't make sense??? IMO, it's all inactivity on my part. I'm just not on tiktok. I don't look at it on my phone. I haven't downloaded any of the tiktok apps. Nothing. I just uploaded the videos to see if I would get any traction to the music. I did have links to the kickratt journal & blog in the video descriptions. These links along with the inactivity may be the real reason KicKRaTT got the tiktok boot. No matter. On this action, I am removing all tiktok links from the KicKraTT pages and as far as KicKRaTT is concerned, it's BYE BYE TikTok! There weren't many tiktok links in the KicKRaTT web, but those links will be removed when found. If these analytics help anyone, created my tiktok account around March 20th 2024, uploaded 3 of the KicKRaTT videos, by May 5th 2024 tiktok suspends the KicKRaTT account.

You can view the KicKRaTT Odysee account here .

The Odysee embedded video player & the SoundClick embedded store are two widgets that don't work on my dreamwidth journal. You will only find these two widgets on the KicKraTT google blooger site. But they both work fine on the google blog. This is one solid reason to have two journal & blog sites. I only have so much interest or time in debugging widget functionality issues. The ODYSEE LINK above hopefully takes you to the KicKRaTT video DAY, though watching the video on the Odysee site is not the need. Being able to embed the video player object is everything and if for what ever reason the player widgets only work here and there and are not universal it creates duplicity and the need for alternative presentations.

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