Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-17964257-20190627173155

Hey there Brandon! Thank you very much for providing us a contact point!

To give you a quick background, about a year ago, in August 2018, shortly after we discovered Fandom created videos on our pages, we received direct content from Jada Griffin to have a grounds to discuss the situation on various aspects. Our main complaint was the content of the videos, being positioned as "introduction" videos, while having a lot of plot relevant details featured in them. The placement of the videos were also a major issue for us (along with autoplay by default), so the response "You can provide us scripts to make the videos better" was not a favorable option for us, along with some major (yet understandable due to linguistic differences) pronunciation issues of Japanese names. We managed to come to a temporary conclusion of us, offering the idea that we could produce the videos on our own terms and implement them ourselves, as Ms. Griffin had highlighted Fandom's modernization goals. We provided 4 initial videos we produced as samples, however due to personal matters on Ms. Griffin's end, we never really got any definitive conclusion as to what would happen, aside from being ensured that video production on SAO Wikia had been ceased for the moment. We were also eagerly waiting for the feedback that we promised, if our content was a good addition to Fandom's modernization goals or if we had room for improvement. In the lack of any communication, we slowly continued the rollout of our self produced videos on popular pages that did not already feature videos made by Fandom (to not clutter the pages further) and so far, however our wiggle room was quite small due to Fandom having covered almost all of our popular pages. So far, we got a dozen videos specifically for Wikia use, as well as videos as part of our SAO News coverage under SAO Wikia.

You can find a playlist of our Wikia Videos here, each video is embedded to their respective article and also link directly from Youtube to the article: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhQQ31Id8MeFmtu58nKxhuks8wMLuY4ac

For reference, the video scripts are created by me and heavily worked by our Bureaucrat, Gsimenas, for style and fact checking purposes, as well as other Wikia members on occasion. The videos are edited by me personally and uploaded to my channel on Youtube.

But as we expected, we have reached a point where we are out of popular pages without videos. Instead of obscure pages, we want to prioritize the pages that get more attention of course, however, the announcement of the global video production being ceased had mentioned that these already existing videos would not be removed in the near future. So we were hoping for some understanding on this matter. We are aware the top-of-the-page videos are also acting as advertising slots (at least we are under that assumption, as trailers have shown up on our SAO Game articles around the same time Fandom had started a promotional campaign late 2017/early 2018 with Bandai Namco), but as we have reached the point of a deadlock, we wanted to start a conversation regarding what the possibilities are.

We would also love to work with the Content/PR team on possible future partnerships with Bandai Namco or other SAO content publishers that would benefit both sides, but that's an entirely different topic that I would not want to go more in depth on without our Bureaucrat and Admin members' input. 