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Yes. And no. 1) is pretty straightforward, and I think you understand it correctly. Obviously, we're not currently serving ads, and it's not even on the "to
by iansmall 16y ago
Yes. And no.
1) is pretty straightforward, and I think you understand it correctly.
Obviously, we're not currently serving ads, and it's not even on the "to do" list at the moment. Should we decide to put it on the list, there's about 79 different ways we could do it; it would presumably be in our interest to choose an approach that works well for our developer partners.
With respect to (2), your description is incomplete; perhaps you missed the key phrase that demonstrates our real intent. That phrase, at the beginning of the term you're referencing, says "In cases where the (video chat service) is the primary basis of the advertising sale..."; only in those cases are we interested in compensation.
You summarized this as "I have to share an unknown portion of the app revenue with tokbox". That is untrue. We make no claim whatsoever to "app revenues" (which could presumably include things like premium service subscription fees, membership fees, usage fees, etc.).
With respect to ad revenues, we are only interested in ads where the video chat is the primary basis of the sale.
For instance, if you build a dating site, or a gaming site, or a recruiting site that includes video chat as a face-to-face communication channel that augments the underlying activity, and the underlying activity is the basis for the advertising, we're not interested.
But at the other extreme, if you take OpenTok, slap a logo and 18 lines of JavaScript around the service in order to build a vanilla video chat service, and then sell advertising on top of that, then yes, we may want to talk about that.
Bottom line: we're not in the business of trying to trap you or trick you. Frankly, it's not a business model that scales, and it never has been.
We're doing our best to make something pretty cool available to you, at a pretty darned aggressive price point (ie. free), in the hopes that you will build pretty cool apps and together we can change the web.
We're interested in seeing as many cool apps out there as we possibly can. And yes, we're also protecting ourselves from being someone's patsy. You would too, were you in our shoes.
- mewmewmew 16y agothanks a lot for the detailed clarifications, I have a much better view on opentok now.