You have a good point here and I do agree with the tone issue. It's up to us to spread these type of videos to the right audiences because it's not meant for everyone.

I don't go and spam this video everywhere, I have some groups in Facebook where spreading this video would be ridiculous. But on one hand I happen to be a former prominent Zeitgeist movement member in my country which means that I'm in many large groups related to that and a good number of friends are related to that well, and they could very well like this type of video, so it makes sense for me to post it on my wall and certain groups/pages.

So in conclusion, it's a valid point that this vid should not be spammed everywhere without thought, it could have harmful consequences as well. This is done mainly for the OWS crowd so spam it in places where there are a lot of that crowd.

There are two types of videos you can make, other one is the general type which is weusecoins and another one is where you go straight to the points that a certain crowd cares about and stick with it. What we need next is a video with libertarian tones and libertarian concerns. We could also benefit from a technical video that is meant for geeks and focuses a little more on how Bitcoin actually works and how FPGA's are awesome.

In fact wasn't there a vid planned for the libertarian crowd? I think there was a thread about a good animator possibly doing something like that. Sounds great to me and I'd be happy to help crowdfund that as well.

If I sell a GPU for 150€ with PP, I need to be paid 155.64 EUR according to http://www.gregledet.net/ppfcm.html
If I sell it via bit-pay, I need to be paid 155.985 EUR. Above, it gets even worse.
Might be nice for selling bumper stickers or stamps, but a flat 3.99% fee is still more than PP charges - and you can get discounts there as merchant as well, depending on your volume.

Also BitPay charges you more than 2.5 cents if you sell it for 2.50 USD and actually want to get USD as you would get with PP as well. If PP invented their own internal "PayPalcoin" - would you like to get paid in that?! Most merchants probably won't, I guess that's one of the great things about BitPay in the first place, that you don't have to even care about Bitcoin at all to offer it to your users and you'll never even have to touch a single Bitcoin.

By the way, the risk that bit-pay freezes funds is also there - they can even freeze BTC funds, since payment is not done directly to an address that you control as far as I understand.

Anyways, not to defend PP in any way (I only use it to pay myself and if I ever get payments there, I usually pull them as fast as possible) - but if I want to sell something for EUR and get EUR for it, PP is still cheaper above ~100-150 EUR than BitPay. The possibility that your account gets frozen or payouts get delayed is there in both systems, BP has the advantage that they are still small though and might have to care more about their customers. Also they should have no problem with reversed incoming transactions...

Well, back to the video:
Let's assume, I like it (for whatever reason - I'm angry at my bank, charging me for simple transactions, I like the general idea of a "free" money...) - what should I do next? There is no "Buy Bitcoins now with BitPay" or "Go to ... and get them at the current daily rate" or anything else. I'm excited now about Bitcoin but completely without a next step I should take. This means I'll either google, check Wikipedia or simply "like" the video and forget about it...

In a sense, the thing that some people here are angry with this video, is a very good sign. Effective marketing usually doesn't make everyone happy - it can make some people possibly very upset, while other demographies will dig it.

I liked the video, pretty cool. We also need to introduce Bitcoins into the National Education Curriculum to accelerate it's acceptance.

If you re-listen to the last few seconds of the video you will know the context, and it is not "to threaten" or "extort" or "cheat".   They would have used the phrase "Fuck banks" but couldn't for obvious reasons.  To me, there is little doubt as to the meaning.

As far as to whom a message must resonate the most with (assuming there's only one message to deliver), see the left half or so of the following:



 - http://payments.intuit.com/mobile-payments-infographics

Yep, Marketing 101.  Know your target audience, get their attention, and speak to them.

Yup. 

And on the view that it is meant for a specific niche, note in the subject line of this thread: "make it viral!"   
Either that is meant to target it at everybody or else it is meant in the sense of making that small group
sick with an infection.   


Yup. 

I liked it.  I thought it was simple enough that it might get people to take a closer look at Bitcoin.  Good Facebook material.

This.