There are now at least 50 very solid video sharing sites with high traffic numbers and rankings across all the major search engines. Many more video sites are online and ramping up to be players as well.
As I predicted when YouTube took off, video sites are fast replacing article directories as the "darlings" of syndication for link building and targeted traffic generation.
Video is becoming ridiculously easy to create these days and even rank amateurs have a plethora of tools that make video production a snap for them. The main problem is video is very big and takes a long time to upload to all the video sharing sites.
It's not at all like articles where you can easily syndicate across a huge base of article directories in a snap with the right article syndication service.
Or is it?
New services are coming online to take advantage of the great demand marketers have for easy video syndication. Of course this is a natural development now that there are enough sites to drive video marketers crazy and make them seek out syndication services that will help them spread their videos without uploading them one site at a time.
The original video syndication service, Traffic Geyser, is quite a bit more expensive than article syndication services. But then, they have to deal with a huge bandwidth bill each month from uploading hundreds or even thousands of videos across all the main video sharing sites.
There are free video uploading services, but they are very light in the number of video sites they upload to.
As demand for easy video syndication continues to rise, watch for more and more competitors to come online and take their spot in the video syndication industry.
If you were around when article marketing took off, you know what's about to happen in the video marketing industry. It's going to be an even greater explosion than article marketing was when it hits critical mass.
The smart marketers are making how-to videos and re-purposing their written content into video scripts as fast as they can to get ahead of the video marketing boom that is just beginning to really take off across the web.
First movers always get the best results, but video marketing is just starting to show massive promise and there's still time to get ahead of the masses before everyone is marketing with video.
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.
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