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- This site is similar to YouTube because it lets people socialize around the video. However, since it's less popular, don't count on as many people being exposed to your work.
- Revver is less focused on community, and but more useful for making money off your video. The Revver service will match ads to your video, and give you a piece of the action from whatever the advertiser pays. And here's the kicker - when a fan plays the video on their own site, they can earn money from it too. Money, money, money for eveyone!
- This service sucks, but since it's by MySpace, it is very popular. And since this site is popular, you should know about it.
- What's cool about Google Video is the ability to upload any length video and make it available for download to an iPod or PSP, if you so choose. In the future, Google plans to allow small time directors, such as yourself, the ability to sell their video downloads, just like the big boys do now.
- Grouper is unique because they also provide desktop software that allows you to edit your videos, and upload them directly to the site. SONY bought Grouper, so you can probably expect your clips to lay next to SONY's library of music videos and movie trailers.
- Yahoo Videos doesn't just allow uploading of your videos, they also search for vids, no matter what site they're hosted on. In theory, this may get your video a bigger audience than some of the hosting only services.
- AOL's video hosting service is very similiar to YouTube, which isn't a bad thing. It's not good either.
- MSN's hasn't launched their YouTube clone yet, but you can expect it to be popular for the same reason MySpace Video is.
- DailyMotion has a heavy focus on social networking, with the ability to create groups, leave comments, and ratings, etc.
- MetaCafe stresses that they try to review all of the sites videos, and promote the best ones.
- If your video is good enough, VH1 may select it to appear on its Web Junk 20 program.
- Motionbox tries to cure the problem of sharing long videos by allowing you to highlight and tag portions of the video that are the most interesting parts.
- PutFile: free video hosting with unlimited file uploads; up to 25MB per file at the time of this writing.
- ZippyVideos: no registration required for free video hosting here; 100 MB limit.
- YouSendIt.com: not exactly a video hosting service, but a resender that you can use to email large (1 GB) files to other people.
- DropShots: easy to use video hosting service; must register in order to use it, free registration includes up to 10 uploaded videos.
- PhotoBucket: free video hosting service with up to 1 GB of storage available (that's a lot).
- Google Video Upload: No limit on size or storage here; Google Video offers absolutely free video hosting.
- TinyPic: free video hosting; "TinyPic is a video hosting and publishing utility for MySpace, eBay, blogs and message boards."
- ClipShack: up to 5 GB free storage space here.
- YouTube: YouTube not only offers free video hosting, but an enormous online community of users.
Buzznet.com is a photo, journal, and video-sharing social media
network. Like other social networking sites, Buzznet is a place for
members to share content based on their personal interests. Unlike
classic social networks, which focus primarily on messaging and profile
pages, Buzznet members participate in communities that are created
around ideas, events and interests; most predominantly, music,
celebrities and the media.
Flixya is a social network that puts 100% ad revenue in your pocket.
We've built the tools for you to share your videos, photos, and blogs.
Your place to make friends, earn money, network and more.
Go Fish is a largish hosting site which helps you promote your
directorial skills. The primary objective of this site is to give you
your 15 minutes of fame. Documentaries, comedies, spoofs, pranks, and
even episodic dramas – all are welcome here. The interface is pretty
dense (and dark) and will particularly appeal to the gamers. It’s
pretty easy to use though. If you’re seeking a wide exposure for your
work, this could be the host for you.
Google Videos is a free video sharing website and also a video search
engine from Google Inc. Google Videos allows selected videos to be
remotely embedded on other websites and provides the necessary HTML
code alongside the media, similar to YouTube. This allows for websites
to host large amounts of video remotely on Google Videos without
running into bandwidth or storage capacity issues.
This is the big boy for Internet video hosting - How to upload your
videos to YouTube. Youtube uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display
a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips,
TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video
blogging and short original videos. Unregistered users can watch
the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited
number of videos.
Photobucket was just a image hosting site before but now they have
included video uploading and sharing feature.Photobucket offers image
hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing. Upload your photos, host
your videos, and share them with friends and family.
1000s of how videos and articles. You can upload your own videos and
take part in the busy discussion forums by posting questions and
responding to other users’ questions, either by using text or your
webcam.
blip.tv is a free videoblogging, podcasting and video sharing service.
If you don't have a blog, they will give you one, and if already have
one, they will help make it a show. BlipTV is another IVM fave rave.
Highly rated by PC World and Business 2.0 magazines this site
syndicates its content with the likes of AOL Video, Yahoo! Video,
MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, MSN Video, Google Video etc. thus
effectively multiplying your reach by millions. If you’ve got what it
takes to create a great show, it may even get broadcast on this TV
channel that blip.tv owns. And if your show’s a hit, they allow you to
pick your own advertisers and earn revenue. Flash, QuickTime, DivX, 3gp
– more or less all major formats are supported.
Metacafe is of the world's largest video sites, serving a vast smorgasbord of best videos, funniest movies and clips.
Veoh provides free access to all of the great TV and film studio
content, independent productions, and user-generated videos on the Web
AtomFilms was one of the first Internet Video hosting and distribution
services - it is still one of the best. Successful user video uploads
at Atom reach a huge audience, earn money, and can gain distribution
across the Web, on phones, and even on Comedy Central.
DailyMotion collects the latest music videos, short movies, TV shows,
funny and extreme videos from a variety of web sites in addition
to creating their own original content. You can also upload, share, and
embed your videos
CollegeHumor showcases hilarious original videos, articles, contests,
and interactive features, as well as pictures and videos submitted by
fans like you. Humor is not for kids....
Are you an expert? Howcast welcomes experts from across the web to
share their how-to videos with interested viewers on Howcast.com, the
Howcast Distribution Network, and Howcast Mobile.
Brightcove lets you build and launch your own internet TV station. You
can have your channel up and running within minutes and retain full
control over the program schedule. Videos uploaded by other users can
be incorporated into your shows too. Your channel is syndicated with
other major players on the net and you can earn revenue through
advertising as well as video sales. Features a pretty eye-candy
interface.
ClipShack is a community for videophiles – a place for sharing your
videos with the world. Its run by Reality Digital, Inc. – a company
with years of experience in catering to the multimedia needs of the
corporate sector. Pretty basic interface.
FlickLife counts among the handful of revenue sharing hosts that there
are. You get to broadcast your own videos to the world at no cost at
all and yet get some moollah in return. Features buddy lists. FlickLife
is a privately owned company based in Columbus, Ohio.
Lulu boasts an array of high class editors, designers, writers and
marketers who have worked in the publishing industry and are dedicated
to ensuring your book meets and exceeds industry standards. Whether you
choose a publishing or marketing pack or an individual service like
cover design, you can be assured your manuscript will be handled with
care and professionalism.
Flukiest is an interactive community for sharing and managing digital
media by artists, photographers, designers, musicians, writers,
directors, producers, and technologists – which in other words mean
it’s a photo and video hosting service. There seems to be a tagging
engine at large judging from the humongous tag-cloud you encounter on
the front page. Other services include email, buddy list, forums, blog
and a separate music video section.
FLURL allows you to upload and share videos under a set of pre-existing
categories. Their rating system consists of a meter that displays the
FLURL or HURL rating of a video. Adult content can be found profusely
(there’s a separate above 18 section). Adult Filtering options are
available but turned off by default for any new visitors.
This is a German service and the interface language is Deutsch.
However, the registration process and controls are pretty similar to
any of the common video hosts – so you shouldn’t find it too difficult
to make your way around this one, even if you don’t know the language.
Incidentally, there is a small link right at the bottom of the page
that allows you to switch to the English version. Keep in mind though –
majority of the audience is German.
A community based video sharing service with specialised channels where
you can upload related videos. Consequently jumping channels brings up
a horde of thematic videos. Permitted uploads include photos, audio
tracks and videos. Features nearly unlimited (?) uploads – which in
other words mean that they probably have paid, high-storage plans as
well. There’s an inbuilt social networking feature in this and hence
they allow you to deck up your profile in your own way using an
advanced template creator. Drag & drop functionality for quick
setup of photo / video journals.
Channels, Favorites, Subscriptions, Videos, Photos – nothing out of the
place that can make this service really stand out. It’s got a good
blend of general features including a Hit or Miss rating system.
However, it’s probably one of the very few which offer direct recording
from webcams (see Viddler and VideoEgg).
Myubo comes in four linguistic flavours – Czech, Deutsch, English and
Slovak. It sports a mechanism to upload, view and share live and
pre-recorded video via mobile 2.5G and 3G networks such as GPRS, EDGE,
CDMA or UMTS, web and fixed IP networks. Pretty much covers the whole
consumer wireless spectrum. Among offered features are channel based
organisation, Mobile TV and user communities.
Revver has a clever mechanism that helps it track and monetize the
uploaded videos as they spread virally across the internet – so “no
matter where your creativity travels, you benefit“. Your uploaded video
is paired with a targeted advertisement and the revenue is split 50/50
with you. Those who share and spread the videos get to keep part of the
spoils too. 20% of the ad revenue is handed to them. Of particular
interest to the developers is the Revver API, which allows one to build
a video-sharing site complete with user accounts, uploading, sharing
tools and access to the full Revver library of videos. The bandwidth is
covered by Revver and the ad revenue is split three ways – you, Revver
and the content creator.
A basic hosting service with standard features and channel-based
organisation. Allows adult content and has a SafeSearch filter in
place. One upper it has compared to other services is that it allows
for direct mobile based uploads through MMS (currently in UK &
Europe only).
This is one service that I probably don’t have much to talk about. It’s
part of the reknowned MSN Suite of online applications. Offers all the
standard bookmarking, commenting, tagging, rating and sharing features
and has it’s own flash-based player.
A service by iFILM that has an extensive library of movie clips, music
videos, short films, video game trailers, action sports and its popular
‘viral videos’ collection. Since October 2005, it’s a part of the
Viacom network – so one can definitely trust this one. Of course you
can expect all the latest and hottest of the videos here and can upload
your own too. Has clips of daily TV shows from around the world.
A video hosting service by DivX for people who love videos. DivX, if
you remember, is the group which came up with a similarly named format
of video encoding for online distribution. DivX videos can be of pretty
high quality and are rendered through a custom player which is
available as a plug-in for most famous browsers. According to the
Stage6 team, “Anyone can become a publisher, anyone can build an
audience and every video available on Stage6 is compatible with over 70
million consumer electronics devices from every major manufacturer,
making it easy to play back Stage6 videos on your television or
portable device.“
Another site that offers all the standard features – video sharing
& organisation, social networking, discussion groups, playlists,
customisable profiles etc. There’s rating system in place with which
you can vouch for other’s content. Allow for direct importing of videos
from other hosting sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Grouper, Myspace
etc. Has a couple of widgets & gadgets for your site / blog.
VideoEgg features one of the slickest interfaces I’ve come across and
offers a bag of really useful online video manipulation tools
(cropping, resizing, direct recording etc.). Allows sharing through
email, direct HTML embedding and Permalinks. The videos are displayed
through their own interactive embeddable flash-based player. High-end
sites with > 1 million visitors per month can sign-up for a revenue
sharing partnership where ads are displayed beside each video and the
revenue handed down to the partner. Employs content-filtering to weed
out inappropriate videos.
Another cool video hosting service that has been around since end 2004
and reflects the Web 2.0 genre of web-design. They share helpful
pointers with you in case you’re lacking ideas regarding creation of
unique video content. In action are a bunch of highly configurable
privacy options with which you can create fine-grained access control
lists to allow only select group of people to view your videos. In
short, you choose who exactly sees which of your videos. Has
personalised homepage where you can neatly arrange all of your favorite videos. Allows tagging of videos.
Zeec is another German video hosting service that you won’t find so
difficult to navigate around. This one too allows you to directly
record / update videos off your webcam. The interface follows the Web
2.0 ideal and has a vague resemblance to the Last.FM music cum social
networking site.
This one offers your own sub-domain under ZippyVideos to host your
profile (e.g. profile.zippyvideos.com). Unlimited uploads are permitted
pertaining to the fact that no single upload is greater than 20MB.
Privacy options, video organisation and social networking are an
integral part of the package.
Zoopy proudly presents itself as South Africa’s first video and photo
sharing social network. It’s a pretty basic service with an easy-going
note that can be spotted all over the site. There’s a standing
challenge that attempts to coax the hidden director in you to come out
into the limelight.
if you have more video hosting websites please add this on comment,
publish your video on different video hosting sites and drive more
traffic on your website. Hope it would be useful, cheers..
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