Video Sharing

YouTube Invites Google News Partners To Earn Revenue

Got a news source that is already included in Google News? Want to partner with YouTube as a video news supplier? Then you might just be in luck if you're one of the 25,000 lucky news agencies that have been invited to do so. If ...

About YouTube's New Channels - YouTube Channels 2.0

In case you thought YouTube Channels 1.0 were shite, they've now given us version 2.0 (beta). But really, what's in a name and version number? Ok so YouTube is getting ready to release a new version of YouTube channels and they're quite pleased with themselves ...

Youtube Adds AutoSharing - YouTwitFace Is Now Real

For those of you that may have missed it, a few weeks back, Conan O'Brien, on his  Tonight Show sketch called "In the Year 3000,” predicted that in the future, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook would merge and create "one super time-wasting site called 'YouTwitFace'."  1 week later, ...

How To Fix Aspect Ratio On Youtube Videos - Remove Black Bars

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 ...

Upload Videos To Multiple Video Sharing Sites

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 ...

Mogulus Is Dead (figuratively), Long Live Livestream

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, ...

Dailymotion Supports Open Video Formats

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. Thanks to Mozilla the site will now support Ogg video files and is the first major video ...

Vimeo Is Better Than YouTube for Sharing Video?

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 ...

TwitVid Enables Easy Video Sharing for Twitter

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 ...

Code of Best Practices In Fair Use for Online Video - Remix Culture

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. It is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making ...

Video Blogging Gets Easy - WordPress Steps Up With VideoPress

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 ...

How YouTube Destroyed The Village of Carpentersville, Illinois

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 ...

Quicktime To Have Built In YouTube Support

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 ...

Major Google Video Changes Meet With Mixed Reviews

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 ...

Can User-Generated Video Work As A Business Model? Interview With Wikipedia CEO Jimmy Wales

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 ...