You know, at first I thought you were directing me to a commercial that made my question meaningless by establishing that some companies DO offer music video compilations. Then the penny dropped and I realized that you were trying to actually imply an answer to my question (i.e., the existence of youtube makes such compilations unnecessary and unlikely to turn a profit).
Fair enough again. But it does raise the question: With the audio tracks already being on youtube as well, why does the existence of youtube not render the CD compilations unnecessary and unlikely to turn a profit?Those TV offers haven’t gone away.
My guess is that most of the music which Time/Life and the ilk offer in those compilations is stuff which appeals to Baby Boomers…which means that (a) it’s old enough (1950s through early-to-mid 1970s) that a lot of the songs don’t have anything like a music video, and (b) the buyers are relatively unlikely to be buying music as digital downloads, which I suspect correlates strongly with not using YouTube.
