Video sharing news, tips and information. Coverage of video sharing websites and social video sharing sites. Internet video sharing tips and news for YouTube as well as news about other existing and upcoming video platforms that are designed specifically for uploading and sharing internet video.
Long, long ago, YouTube was 4:3 only. Then the age of widescreen came and so they changed everything to 16:9. This left many videos in a square peg oblong hole situation (as in the video just doesn’t fit the player window properly). So here are a few ways that you can change the aspect ratio on your YouTube videos and NOT have to re-upload.
So, you’ve got some videos made and you want to get them out there as fast and efficiently as possible. That means you probably want some tools to upload them to multiple video sites automatically right? Right! Here’s some of the coolest tools we found that will help you do just that, and in a hurry.
Now, I didn’t say they’d be free and instead of separating them out pay/free I’m just going to give you a good long list of them. I haven’t played with all of them so I can’t vouch for how cool, fast or stable they are. This is more like an informative piece that you can use as a starting point for research on how to get your videos published online with the quickness.
Mogulus, which always sounded to me like a beast from the Jabberwocky along with the jub-jub bird and the Bandersnatch, is no longer. Well it is, however it has been slain through and through and risen up from its own ashes, a la the Phoenix, to become LiveStream. A far more descriptive name if you ask me.
Dailymotion, you know, the video entertainment site where you can share your videos on pretty much almost any topic, is now accepting Open Video formats and HTML tags.
Someone recently dropped me a line to tell me that Vimeo was better than YouTube. Me, being the easy-going guy I am, said “OK.” Of course this might have been a clever plot on their part to get me to check it out for one reason or another. Again, I’m easy-going, so I did.
First there was Twitmatic, which let you track and find videos being shared on Twitter. Now there’s TwitVid which actually lets you share videos on Twitter. Convenient no?
TwitVid helps you to actually share your videos on Twitter which is quite useful really. It utilizes the Twitter API so you can login with your Twitter account which is handy.
The American University School of Communication’s Center for Social Media has released a report on what constitutes fair use of copyrighted video and material online.
A picture is worth a thousand words. According to Grant a video is worth millions. So when the content management system (CMS) that is used in millions of websites around the planet switches over to video you can expect billions of words to be transformed into video.
Do you know if your municipal government is online video-friendly, or video-hostile? I get extra ranty for this week’s podcast-and-article combo, exposing my former residence of Carpentersville, Illinois – 40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago – perhaps the only local government left in the entire state (and perhaps the entire United States) with an actual hostility for online video, and how that willful ignorance ruined its chances for business growth, increased unemployment, and making it a laughing stock nationwide.
If you’re an iPhone user you already know you can watch your favorite YouTube videos on it via the app. However, if you’re a Quicktime user you’ve always had to do your encoding and video editing and then go either to YouTube’s page or use another application to upload your videos.
On April 14th Google announced, via their blog, that they would no longer support video uploads to Google Video but that it would continue to be a place for people to find videos (Google Blog), Changes have since been implemented at the video search page and have met with mixed reviews from the userbase.
The Google Blog stated:
Anyone can easily search for videos from all over the web using Google Video. Finding things is the heart of what Web Search is all about so we’re gladly taking Google Video under our wings [Google Web Search Help Forum].
ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews Wikipedia CEO and Co-Founder Jimmy Wales at the adtech conference and asks: Can consumer-generated media (CGM) work as a monetizeable business model for video like it has for text? What are the challenges with incorporating video into public Wikis? And, can traditional news companies use the wiki model for incorporating CGM video and build back their own news communities, or are the challenges too great? A special report from the ad:tech conference in San Francisco.
