Metacafe Articles

Metacafe is a media and video sharing community on the internet. Metacafe users upload and share thousands of new videos every day. Metacafe offers a desktop application, mainly targeted at users who are “video addicts” and download many of the videos every week. The desktop application is capable of downloading high-quality media to the local computer while the computer is idle. Metacafe features user generated videos, humor videos, Internet videos (memes) and viral ads as well a...

Metacafe Got A Record 9M Uniques Last Month and Lays Off Workers

Acording to TVWeek, Online video destination Metacafe set a traffic record in October with more than 9 million uniques in the US.  That is a rise of more than 30 percent since January of this year and an increase of more than 10% over September's traffic. ...

Dailymotion Subtitle Capabilities In Multiple Languages

DailyMotion call themselves the world's largest independent video entertainment website (so does Metacafe). However, we have found out that they have just added the ability to put subtitles right into any videos you upload which might propel them into that position. The new feature allows ...

Metacafe Is The Leading Destination for Independent Online Video Content

Metacafe solidified its position as the world's leading independent online video site with 37.1 million unique monthly viewers worldwide and 7.4 million unique monthly viewers in the U.S. during the month of August, as reported in the recently released comScore Media Metrix data. Worldwide, traffic ...

Metacafe's New Toolkit for Video Personalization

Metacafe, whose more than 30 million unique viewers each month make it one of the world's largest video entertainment sites, now enables viewers to personalize their entertainment experiences by adding dialog bubbles, photos, webcam video, clip art, subtitles and more to online videos. These viewers ...

Study - Short-Form Videos Dominate Online Viewing

Frank N. Magid Associates, the world leader in research-based consultation, and Metacafe, whose more than 30 million unique viewers each month make it one of the world's largest video entertainment sites, today released survey results revealing consumer behavior and preferences in online video viewing. Notably, ...

Research - Most Popular Video Sites and Categories

Last week, Tubemogul released new research that proves the current dominance of Youtube and demonstrates that videos on Youtube receive more views on average than other video sites, regardless of category. The research also demonstrates that while this is currently the case, other sites like ...

Search Engines Use UGC To Improve Video Search

As you likely have heard, Youtube recently a new annotations feature that basically enables video creators to add add background information to a video hosted on Youtube. You can also use the annotations to link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within ...

Review of Revenue Sharing Video Sharing Sites

This is a direct excerpt from a great article titled, "Rise of an Internet Star - Parlaying YouTube Fame Into Big Business" on ReadWriteWeb. You might not have the time to create a regular series of videos, but if you can find the time to ...

Metacafe Video Search Undergoes Redesign

I just got an email from Metacafe that they have redesigned their website.  There is a new "popular now" section, a new look to the homepage, and new features coming soon.  The email I received can be found below this screenshot of their new homepage. ...

Aaron Wall's 5 Video Search Optimization Tips

Aaron Wall of SEO Book (you likely know of Aaron if you have done anything in search engine optimization" has done a special guest post on O'Flaherty blog with some excellent tips about using video SEO. Excerpt: "Six more bonus video optimization tips: When in ...

Metacafe Introduces Mobile Video Delivery

Enables Consumers to Send Favorite Short Videos to Mobile Devices Metacafe®, whose more than 28 million unique viewers each month make it one of the world's largest video entertainment sites, is working with two global leaders in mobile content delivery to provide anytime, anywhere access ...

Metacafe Video Creators Earn $1 Million

According to the press release below, metacafe video sharing contributors have earned a total of $1 million dollars in revenue sharing since the launch of Metacafe in 2006. One particular producer earned more than $80,000. An additional seven people earned more than $20,000, while 21 ...

Links To Video Sharing's Most Popular Videos

Below are links to view the most popular videos at the following Video Sharing Websites: Youtube Myspace Yahoo Video AOL Video Metacafe VideoSift IFilm Grouper VSocial Revver Truveo

Free Video Upload and Tracking Tool - Vidmetrix

VidMetrix is a new online video service and tool which enables you to automatically upload your video file to all major video sharing website networks. Similar to Tubemogul, vidmetrix will not only help you upload your file at once to all major engines, but will ...

Characteristics of Video Sharing Sites and Monetization

TubeMogul released a nice summary of the online-video search and sharing sites that it supports and provided an excellent post with a summary of user feedback about each site and the monetization opportunities and status. The following sites are included: Youtube, Yahoo, DailyMotion, MySpace, MetaCafe, ...