In reply to Scott Hartley.

I disagree WordPress was created for a purpose that was most likely commercial. From the about page.

WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPLv2 (or later).

Wordpress has commercial roots but has expanded past that allowing it to be open source. Which has thus involved into what we have today. Which is great and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I can see advertising be annoying for the end user so I will agree with that point. I can also see how the management would be difficult. However the main thing remains that WordPress TV is demanding high quality content (which it should) and a lot of it covering a wide variety of topics.

But it won't do so because there is very little incentive for people to create these videos. People are driven by commercial incentive they want to be rewarded for their time creating these videos and WordPress TV just doesn't award them enough as a platform such as YouTube. Which is why this will have a hard time catching on.