Top 10 Video Sharing Sites To Toot Your Flute
Video sharing sites are fast becoming the means for serious online marketers and advertisers to reach a much wider audience with a new and innovative message in rapid time and for an artist, searching for a way to sell art on the internet, video offers a uniquely appealing and highly compelling opportunity. Let’s take a look at a few of the best video sharing websites to see just what they offer.
Video hosting services give users the opportunity to upload video clips to an Internet website where they are stored on a server to be viewed at a later date. These video sharing websites as they are generally called, have increased in popularity in concert with advances in technology, specifically the cell phone. Point, click and in a matter of seconds video images are being recorded on your mobile communications device. You have just become producer, director, Director of Photography, camera operator and sometimes talent for your own mini-movie all on a 3 Inch screen. Hollywood here we come. (James Cameron, beware!)
With the huge popularity of interactive web pages, blogs and forums and your last family outing, video hosting is becoming almost as popular as photo sharing. Low-resolution camera phones and broadband Internet connections are well suited to each other. The “proof of this pudding” is called YouTube where millions of home made videos are but a few clicks away. As almost all of us don’t own servers, video hosting on the Internet creates our own personal storage vault and a common place to share our mini programs.
Host sites with features galore make uploading a hassle free experience. No more super programming requirements. Just follow the simple instructions in the browser menu and your video is captured and stored. One of the more recent applications, mobile web 2.0, allows video and other content to be sent and received on mobile equipment. Web 2.0 is an umbrella term that refers to a new era of web based applications that are built around user generated/manipulated content. This App is especially useful for blogging, podcasts, and social network sites. With live streaming software called “Qik”, cell phone videos can be uploaded to the Internet and shared with your favourite social network site. YouTube, Facebook and SuperSupportMe to name a few. Once stored on the servers, they can be retrieved and watched on your mobile or on the web.
Daily traffic to video sharing sites is a testament to the popularity of this genre. A 2006 survey of visitors to the web found that about 48% of the surfers went to a video sharing site like YouTube. A year later the number nearly doubled. Currently about 50 video share web sites are listed on the Internet and this number is growing to meet an ever- increasing demand for this service.
In determining our Top 10 list of video sharing sites, we considered the following.
* Audience Features that make searching, viewing and sharing enjoyable.
* Built in Resources that make it easy to create and post your videos
* A library of good but regulated content
* Ease of use from navigating the site to loading and playing
* Sophisticated and broad based Help/Support system
The envelope please…
Our Top 10 video sharing sites
- YouTube
- Metacafe
- Break
- Dailymotion
- Yahoo Video
- Revver
- Vimeo
- vidiLife
- Stickam
Our review of YouTube, Dailymotion and Stickam follows. Now give us one bell and quiet on the set. Roll record…
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