Any teenager can put up a video for or against a candidate, and persuade other people to watch that video, the center of gravity could shift to masses of people with camcorders and passable computer skills. And if people increasingly distrust the mainstream media, they might be more receptive to messages created by ordinary folks.

Videoshoutout.com's content is entirely user-uploaded. Browsing Liz Phair music videos can lead to an amateur video featuring teenage gymnasts doing ninja moves. To post a video clip (maximum length 10 minutes, no porn please), just upload the file to Videoshoutout.com servers ? Videoshoutout.com takes care of transcoding the video, providing a browser-based player, managing the servers and paying for the bandwidth.

Everybody's a star at Videoshoutout.com: Videoshoutout.com doesn't have the video sharing and sorting tools that Blip and Vimeo do, but posting your clips to the free service is a breeze. Videos are limited to 100MB each, and you have to give each clip at least three tags before Videoshoutout.com will accept it. Linking to clips from your blog requires copying and pasting HTML code.

In fact, a recent study of USA internet user behavior found that almost a third of users have uploaded something homemade onto the internet and that includes video clips. Video sharing sites are also used as marketing tool for many media companies as well as video uploads by web users who are using such sites as a platform to showcase their work or discoveries.

Watching Videos:

VideoShoutout.com offers 2 types view: Basic View and Detail View.

Display most recently uploaded videos .

Display most viewed videos .

Display most discussed videos .

Display top favorites videos .

Display top rated videos .

Display recently featured videos .

Display random videos .

Each video uploaded will be streamed using the built-in flash player and members can post comments, rate video, add to favorites and flag video as Featured or Inappropriate .

Looking for Friends:

Ability to sort contacts by name or date added .

Display all friends or by contact list .

Members can create new contact list .

Add/remove friends in the contact list .

View friends' videos and favorite lists .

Political campaigns are taking advantage of Videoshoutout.com free video hosting to disseminate messages too expensive or too controversial for broadcast television.

On Videoshoutout.com: Users may submit videos in several common-file formats (such as .mpeg and .avi). Videoshoutout.com automatically converts them to Flash Video (with extension .flv) and makes them available for online viewing. Flash Video is a popular video format among large hosting sites due to its wide compatibility.

Videoshoutout.com policy does not allow content to be uploaded by anyone not permitted by United States copyright law to do so, and the company frequently removes uploaded infringing content.

Videoshoutout.com hodgepodge of clips includes a little of everything that can be squished into in less than 10 minutes: snippets of commercial broadcasts, ads, music videos, bloopers, film trailers and even entire films segmented into short chunks. But content created and uploaded by amateur videographers on their own time and their own dime that rules the roost.

You can embed a private video on your website by copying the embed code on the Edit Video pages for that video and pasting it into your website. In order to view the video, the person coming to your website must be logged into the members area, and be part of the list you shared the video with (i.e. Friends or Family). If they are not, the video still will display "Loading" but the video will not load.