I don't think it applies to any of your stuff but what will stop me watching something online (assuming I've thought it interesting enough to land on the page) is a registration page. I have to have a lot more than a passing interest/curiosity to risk handing out my email address to some organisation that may then send me spam targeted emails until kingdom come - and even if they have no intention of emailing me the moment I'm faced with a registration page I wonder what they want the information for and that isn't often easy to figure out
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Given that DKLS has a female protagonist but is a looooooong way away from the "scantily clad women with large breasts" genre, I shall make sure to point that out in big, clear language!
WRT "targeted emails" - I'll also be asking people to sign up to a mailing list at some point, because the name of the game in fiction is a sustainable, reachable fanbase. It'd be really useful to know what specifically worries you or annoys you about being on lists, so I can reassure people I won't be doing that!
I don't mind being on a list as long as its really clear its a list I'm signing up to and what the list is for etc., etc., - opt out boxes for additional mailings, or clear statements about data protection are big reassurances there. I think there are a number of nebulous concerns that arise when faced with a registration page which include
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First a disclaimer - I'm ADHD, so I'm never going to be able to just sit still and watch a movie. I always need to be doing something else at the same time, especially if it's going to need my attention for longer than 10 mins or so.
Your question, as you define it, doesn't really apply to me... You seem to be asking people why they would choose not to watch things online, I assume rather than watch it some other way, or not al all? I watch most of my media online, so there is technically nothing stopping me from watching a film/your film through this medium. Whether I watch a thing<\b> is a different matter
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Given that DKLS has a female protagonist but is a looooooong way away from the "scantily clad women with large breasts" genre, I shall make sure to point that out in big, clear language!
WRT "targeted emails" - I'll also be asking people to sign up to a mailing list at some point, because the name of the game in fiction is a sustainable, reachable fanbase. It'd be really useful to know what specifically worries you or annoys you about being on lists, so I can reassure people I won't be doing that!
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This is absolute gold dust of a comment. If it was on a forum I was moderating I'd be including it in the next newsletter!
Much appreciated. I'll be crafting my opt-in carefully with all this in mind.
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First a disclaimer - I'm ADHD, so I'm never going to be able to just sit still and watch a movie. I always need to be doing something else at the same time, especially if it's going to need my attention for longer than 10 mins or so.
Your question, as you define it, doesn't really apply to me... You seem to be asking people why they would choose not to watch things online, I assume rather than watch it some other way, or not al all? I watch most of my media online, so there is technically nothing stopping me from watching a film/your film through this medium. Whether I watch a thing<\b> is a different matter ( ... )
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