Video Sharing Websites
This page features video sharing websites as well as websites that allow you to create and edit videos and slideshows. Please note that this is a work in progress. If you'd like to nominate a site for this page, email John Kremer. I know that I have missed some sites I truly would like to add to this list. Your site might be one of those. Thanks for your support. — John Kremer, author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books
You can use video-sharing websites as an additional avenue for getting exposure for your books, business, website, or authors. To draw attention to your book videos and make them easy to locate, you can use tags and descriptions.
Use the websites featured here to create, share, and distribute your videos, book trailers, viral videos, and vidcasts (video podcasts). Read from your book, tell a story, dance a jig, spread an idea, have fun!
134 million Americans viewed videos in July 2007 (comScore Video Metrix), spending an average of 3 hours viewing videos online.
To upload video automatically to more than 35 video sharing websites, see the people at http://www.videotrafficguys.com. They make it easy to share videos, podcasts, and more on all of the most important social networking sites.
Video Sharing Websites
AOL Uncut Video: http://uncutvideo.aol.com/Main.do You can browse videos by tags, category, most popular, most recent, location, highest rated, or most comments.
AOL Video Search: http://video.aol.com Allows you to search by most viewed, highest rated, various categories, various channels, and TV shows (many free for viewing). Also allows video uploads. AOL offers a special channel for viewing the AOL Top 100 Music Videos.
Atomic Wedgie TV: http://www.atomicwedgietv.com Funny videos. A division of FremantleMedia, which also produces American Idol.
Atomic Wedgie is a short-form comedy video channel that lives on mobile phones and the web. Our diverse pool of producers continually upload us with funny and hilarious videos, and are ever growing in the new media community. With gutbusting parody, killer jokes, and amazing new characters created exclusively for digital, Atomic Wedgie is a growing comedy force for web and mobile.
Our video content ranges from new and unknown young internet filmmakers, to a variety of industry professionals coming from such projects as Mad TV, Second City, Improv Olympic, Upright Citizens Brigade, Scrubs, The Office, Arrested Development, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Disney, Family Guy, American Dad, Comedy Central, MTV, The Daily Show, and more.
The Big 50 Videos: http://www.b50v.com Features the top 50 comedy, sports, and entertainment/movie videos. Also includes a hall of fame. They invite you to send them videos.
Blastro: http://www.blastro.com Features hip-hop videos and urban videos.
Blinkx: http://www.blinkx.com Video search tool featuring 18 million hours of video. If you have video content on your website or blog, you can submit it for indexing via RSS to Blinkx at: http://www.blinkx.com/rssupload.
Blip TV: http://www.blip.tv Features short, funny entertainment videos. They allow you to upload video via the website, an FTP address, a desktop utility called UpperBlip, or your cell phone. You can also cross-post videos automatically to many blogging platforms. You can embed videos into your website as an image thumbnail, a Flash player, a pop-up window, or a new browser window. Plus you can provide viewers multiple video formats to download (Flash, iPod, cell phone playback, etc). Finally, BlipTV offers optional revenue sharing.
BlueString: http://www.bluestring.com Upload and share photos, videos, and music from your PC. Just drag and drop to share. With StringIt, you can share your creative collections (for example, from a wedding or other event) and then invite family and friends to add their own photos, videos, or music to add to the story. A service of AOL.
Bolt: http://www.bolt.com
Break: http://www.break.com Videos especially for guys (ages 15 to 35). 18 million unique visitors each month. They show 12 million videos per day. They have partnerships with Tivo, Lionsgate, NBC Universal, Vivendi Games, Twisted Pictures, Limelight Networks, and more. Break offers a full package of free services to website owners that will help drive traffic and increase your site's reach and ad revenue. You can embed every video on Break onto your website with a customized embeddable player. On Break you can also create a tricked out customized personal page where you can send updates to subscribers, post bulletins, and include links to your site for all the people who are finding you for the first time through Break. Their Girl of the Day widget allows you to have the hottest girls from all over the web delivered to your site every morning.
Brightcove: http://www.brightcove.com A video publishing website. They provide professional video services to MTV, Warner Music, and other big companies, but they also offer a personal video sharing service that is free. You can sign up for a Brightcove Network account to make money by sharing advertising revenue (50/50), offer downloads or rentals using AOL Video distribution (30/70 split), or third-party syndication programs. You can upload videos via the website or their desktop PublishPod application. Their Aftermix online video editor lets you record directly from your webcam, adjust your videos, import videos from YouTube and others, and use images from Flickr and Facebook. Their Takeout Box widget allows you to create thumbnail listings to promote your Brightcove videos all across the web.
Bubble Guru: http://www.bubbleguru.com With this free service, you can create a pop-up video that appears when visitors come to a page on your website.
BuzzNet: http://www.buzznet.com A video-sharing site that is part of the Video Egg ad network. Features music, celebrities, pop culture in photos, music, and videos.
Castfire: http://www.castfire.com A specialty web video host that dynamically assembles video clips with video ads.
Castpost: http://www.castpost.com Allows you to broadcast your personal video and audio clips. Currently free with some ads.
ClipShack: http://www.clipshack.com Allows you to upload video clips. Reality Digital is their hosted media platform for business customers.
Crackle: http://www.crackle.com Formerly known as Grouper, this video-sharing website features contests and more. Owned by Sony Pictures, it is designed to discover and promote the stars of tomorrow. Their syndication network includes IPTV, RSS aggregators, social networks, and more.
Cuts RiffTrax: http://www.cuts.com Allows you to create or add new elements to existing online videos.
Dabble: http://www.dabble.com Aggregates video clips from YouTube, Blip TV, Revver, etc. It allows you to search all of the services at once for any keywords (by subject or videographer) and organize your favorites into playlists you can share with others.
Daily Motion: http://www.dailymotion.com A video sharing site from France.
The Daily Reel: http://www.thedailyreel.com
The Daily Tube: http://www.thedailytube.com Features the best new videos on the net, including humor, celebs, music, late nite, campaign '08, sports, and web stars. You can get the best new videos on the web delivered fresh to your email inbox every day.
Disney Online: http://www.disney.com 182 million videos viewed each month (2% market share). 13.9 million unique viewers in July 2007.
DivX Stage6: http://stage6.divx.com This service allows you to upload high-definition video, using the DivX format. Users wanting to view your embedded video in this format will have to download the DivX Web Player (a quick and simple download).
DropShots: http://www.dropshots.com Motto: Next generation photo and video sharing. Completely private, no public galleries. Allows photo and video sharing with family and friends only.
ESPN: http://www.espn.com 75 million videos viewed each month (.8% market share). 7.7 million unique viewers in July 2007.
E-tv: http://www.e.tv Allows video uploads, channels, groups, and friends.
Eyejot: http://www.eyejot.com Motto: video messaging in a blink! You can host an Eyejot widget on your web pages or send via email. You can record a greeting or message and send it to unlimited recipients. As easy as sending ordinary text email.
EyeSpot: http://www.eyespot.com A video sharing and creation website. You can create mash-ups or mixes using your own material or videos they provide. Allows you to mix videos, music, and photos.
Facebook Video: http://www.facebook.com/video (you must be a member of Facebook to see this page) Their video player offers better quality and privacy controls than many other video sharing sites. You can send video voicemail back and forth between friends. It supports most mobile providers so you can take a video on your phone and email it to video@facebook.com and have it posted to your Facebook page.
5 Minute Life Videopedia: http://www.5min.com 5 Yoni Netanyahu Street, Or Yehuda 60376, Israel. Email: bizdev@5min.com. Focused on 5-minute or less how-to videos in the following categories: arts, business, extreme, fashion, fitness, food, games, health, home, music, parenting, people, pets, spiritual, sports, tech, travel, wheels, life tips, and knowledge. In early January 2008, their highlighted videos were viewed from 200 times to 122,650 times.
Flektor: http://www.flektor.com A division of News Corporation, this site allows you to create mash-ups from text, chat, videos, movies, slideshows, postcards, and more. You can also create your own quiz or poll and share it on your MySpace page. Allows you to make customized slideshows, glitter text, or edit a movie. You can even record and broadcast yourself live on a webcam. When finished, you can post to MySpace, Facebook, Blogger, Ebay, or your own website.
Fliqz: http://www.fliqz.com Offers fully-customizable, plug-and-play video solutions. They offer a free video play for your site as well as other video solutions for any budget.
Fox Interactive Media: http://www.fox.com A division of News Corporation, Fox Interactive Media is a portfolio of social networking sites including MySpace, Photobucket, Spring Widgets, Flektor, FoxSports, and more. 298 million videos viewed each month (3.3% market share, #3). 35.8 million unique viewers in July 2007.
Free IQ: http://www.freeiq.com/123home A video sharing site where people vote for the best informational videos. But it is also a information product showcase where the FreeIQ takes a percentage of any products you sell. They encourage you to showcase your knowledge and expertise via videos and then close the sale there. Search for any topic youre interested in learning more about from business management to marketing to software to your favorite hobby and see all the experts and authors and speakers on that subject. They'll host entire presentations that last hours or short clips.
If you are an expert on just about any topic, Free IQ is the perfect solution to display your ideas and showcase your knowledge. We will host and stream all your content for free, whether its video, audio, articles or ebooks. While we reserve the right to eventually set limits, currently there is no limit to how much content you can upload. And if anyone buys an electronically deliverable (downloadable) product from you, well deliver it for free as well.
For content providers, there is no monthly fee to use the Free IQ shopping engine to sell your information products. We host and stream (and digitally deliver) an unlimited of audio and video for free. For any sales you make, we charge just 5% of the sales price (plus credit card processing fees.)For Free IQ content providers, not only can you sell your own information products, like ebooks, audio and video seminars and courses, teleseminars and webinars, live seminar registrations, subscription newsletters, training and coaching programs, or telephone or in-person consulting . . . but you can also get paid every time one of your customers buys something from anyone else on the entire web site for a whole year!
You can join their affiliate program here: http://www.freeiq.com/123aff.
You can add new content to Free IQ here: http://www.freeiq.com/123add.
Funny or Die: http://www.funnyordie.com Funny videos.
Fuse TV: http://www.fuse.tv Fuse Networks, 11 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York NY 10001; 212-324-3400; Fax: 212-324-3445. Email: fuseinfo@fuse.tv.
Gee Video: http://www.geevideos.com Allows you to search various video-sharing websites.
Go Fish: http://www.gofish.com Offers free video clips and films in celebrity entertainment, extreme sports, cartoons, anime, and more. Our network consists of a select group of youth-oriented publishers for whom we sell advertising and through which we can distribute our original online video content. GoFish offers a comprehensive package of services to publishers including marketing services expertise, premium advertising, access to exclusive packaged content, reporting, and streamlined payment process.
Google Video: http://video.google.com The video-sharing website Google hosted before and after they bought YouTube. 200 million videos viewed each month.
Grind TV: http://www.grindtv.com Features extreme sports videos.
Grouper: http://www.grouper.com Now Crackle.com.
Guba: http://www.guba.com Besides uploading and sharing videos, you can also download or view movies for $2.99 and TV shows for $1.79. Offers free music, sports, and how-to videos.
Heavy: http://www.heavy.com Motto: All you can eat video. Also offers free music and comedy radio. Designed to attract those who like heavy metal music, but apparently open to anyone.
Hipcast: http://www.hipcast.com A low-cost service for uploading your audio and video files to the Internet. Also useful for publishing podcasts. And, of course, everything can then be posted to any blog.
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com Features clips from NBC, Fox, and some other network TV shows.
iFilm: http://www.ifilm.com Owned by Viacom, iFilm offers access to TV shows from Spike as well as the Colbert Report and Daily Show. Also, of course, user-generated and uploaded videos.
iMeem: http://www.imeem.com iMeem is an online community where millions of fans and artists discover new music, videos, and photos, and share their tastes with friends. Hence, essentially a social networking site focused on music and videos.
Jaycut: http://www.jaycut.com A website for editing movies as well as creating mashups with videos, photos, etc.
Joost: http://www.joost.com Features 15,000 TV shows you can watch on demand via their downloadable utility.
JumpCut: http://www.jumpcut.com A division of Yahoo, it is a web-based version of desktop video editing. Specializes in video mashups and remixes, including video, music, and photos. Add your video here and watch others mash it up.
Justin.tv: http://wwwjustin.tv Serves up half a million live videostreams every day. Features people, sports, music, gaming, tech, animals, divas & dudes, entertainment, and news. Allows people to broadcast live video, chat with friends, or start your own channel. Their network can support thousands of live broadcasts and over 100,000 simultaneous viewers.
Justin.tv is building the destination site for broadcasting and watching live video online while chatting with friends. Justin.tv tears down the walls of traditional video and social networking sites by enabling viewers and broadcasters to interact and exchange ideas in real time through chat and live video.
Kewego: http://www.kewego.com Very similar in appearance to Google. The most popular videos get around 20,000 views.
KO Video: http://www.kovideo.net Focus on music videos. Did not play the video I tried to play when I visited.
Live Leak: http://www.liveleak.com Features excerpt videos from major media. Also features YourSay response videos.
Live Video: http://www.livevideo.com A photo and video-sharing website especially designed for social networking. As a member, you can subscribe to videos from various sources such as AP breaking video news. Videos are sorted into channels: animation, comedy, extreme, news, pets & animals, sports, auto, entertainment, music, people, science, travel, video blogs, video games, and video comments. Each video notes total views as well as views of that video that day. Using their service, you can post all your videos within one player and post it to your blog or website.
Lonely Planet: http://www.lonelyplanet.tv This video website from the Lonely Planet travel guide publishers offers travelers $500 for their best travel videos. They are selective. They also have a channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/LonelyPlanet (with 913 subscribers).
Magnify.net: http://www.magnify.net This site allows you to create your own video channel that can be featured on your website. It currently features 27,234 channels with 298,358 videos. Magnify.net provides templates and admin tools to customize your video pages on your site via their hosting; integrates popular video hosts; provides upload, storage, and bandwidth free; and shares ad revenue with you. You can create pages with drag and drop ease, use widgets to drive traffic, and get peer review and comments.
Make Internet TV: http://www.makeinternettv.org This creative commons site teaches anyone how to make Internet videos: Get the right equipment, shooting audio/video, editing, licensing, publishing, and promoting videos.
MetaCafe: http://www.metacafe.com Motto: Serving the world's best videos: We specialize in short-form original content - from new, emerging talents and established Hollywood heavyweights alike. Videos are user-generated, user-selected, user-reviewed and user-rewarded. Via their Producer Rewards program, you can get paid for every time someone views your video. 25 million visitors each month. Their submission rules provide superb useful guidelines for creating and sharing videos: http://www.metacafe.com/submission_rules. Note: Videos in their Producers Reward program cannot be too topical or include URLs to other websites.
Microsoft Sites: 149 million videos viewed each month (1.6% market share). 18.8 million unique viewers in July 2007.
Microsoft Soapbox on MSN: http://soapbox.msn.com Allows many options for uploading videos and integrates with MSN Messenger, MSN Spaces, RSS feeds, Media Center PC, etc.
Mixpo: http://www.mixpo.com Motto: Videos for business. This site allows you to create VideoAds with photos, videos, and music. A VideoAd is a dynamic ad unit that helps you market your business more effectively online. Generate brand response with the call-to-action buttons built right into the player. You can have a unique website url, phone number and email address linked from each VideoAd for effective lead generation. VideoAds are 100% built for business.
MotionBox: http://www.motionbox.com Allows you to upload and edit your videos. Then share them. Motionbox makes it easy to upload, organize, enhance, and share your personal videos with family, friends & groups.
MySpace TV: http://vids.myspace.com or http://www.myspacetv.com. The video-sharing pages from MySpace. After YouTube, MySpace Video probably gives you access to the widest audience for your videos. They support the widest range of video file types.
Nelsok: http://www.nelsok.com Create your own videos, upload the video clips, allow others to watch, and earn money from the views. Users who upload videos can go to their user profile and enter in their AdSense publisher ID. Once the user has entered their AdSense code and uploaded a video, ads will begin to be displayed using the user's AdSense publisher ID. The ads are displayed in the box directly under the playing video and are displayed at a ratio of 1:1.
New Baby: http://www.newbaby.com Features expert video information for new mothers.
Nickelodeon TV: http://www.nick.com Allows users to upload videos. Logged 1.4 billion video streams in 2007.
One True Media: http://www.onetruemedia.com Allows you to create a video montage, slideshow, or photo book using video, audio, photos, etc. You can then showcase your creation and also buy a DVD of it as well.
Operator 11: http://www.operator11.com A new social video network where users can share their own TV shows or channels. When broadcasting live, the producer/host can interact with those viewing the video. You can netcast live with your friends and cut back and forth between the participating viewers.
OurMedia: http://www.ourmedia.org Video producers and podcasters can use this service to show off their works and create communities of interest.
Peekvid: http://www.peekvid.com Offers a variety of TV downloads.
PhanFare: http://www.phanfare.com A place to share all your videos and photos online, including the ability to create photo and video slideshows. You can try it free, then pay $55 per year or $300 for lifetime storage and access.
PhotoBucket: http://www.photobucket.com Has 40 million users who upload more than 7 million photos per day. Owned by MySpace, this site had 15 million unique visitors in March 2007. Now also allows you to share video as well as photos.
Plum TV: http://www.plumtv.com A local online and cable TV channel in the following cities: Vail, Aspen, and Telluride, Colorado; Hamptons, New York; Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts; Sun Valley, Idaho; and Miami Beach, Florida.
PostSecret Videos: http://www.postsecretcommunity.com/video If you want to share a secret via video, go to this page after you have first uploaded your video to YouTube. If they like your secret, they will post your video here.
Revver: http://www.revver.com Video sharing site which adds advertisements to all videos on the site. You can make money in two ways: 1. You earn 20% of ad revenues for sharing videos on your Revver page or your blog. 2. You earn 50% of ad revenues from videos you create and share. You can share videos either as Flash or QuickTime. You can also add your own branding or logo to the Flash player interface. Their main video categories include animals & pets, animation, autos, celebrity news, comedy, entertainment, how-to or do-it-yourself, lifestyle, music, news & politics, science, sports, tech & gadgets, travel, video games, vloggers, and webisodes.
Rip.tv: http://www.rip.tv Rip.tv is the Action Sports Media Network, syndicating producer content: 1) offline on both high definition and standard definition television networks, 2) online through major youth portals as well as 3) via mobile service providers. Rip sells producer content via digital download and DVD sales. While it offers channels devoted to skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, mountain biking, and surfing, they are committed to supporting producers of all sorts of action sports videos.
Science Hack: http://www.sciencehack.com A video search engine for science, physics, ecology, space, nature, etc.
Sevenload: http://en.sevenload.com Video and photo-sharing website based out of Germany. Channels include music, sports, cars, comedy, infotainment, health & wellness, food, art & culture, photographers, events, and videoblogs. Seems to have lots of mild sex-related photos and videos.
Sharkle.com: http://www.sharkle.com Watch, upload, and share your videos.
Slip Stream Video: http://www.slipstreamvideo.com Offers video production, distribution to video and social networks, and more.
Spike Videos: http://origin.www.spike.com Sponsored by the Spike TV network, they allow you to upload videos featuring action sports, animation, comedy, commercials, girls, motorsports, movie clips, music videos, short films, television, user video, video games, and viral videos.
SpinXpress: http://www.spinxpress.com SpinXpress downloadable software is used by independent producers to create videos, music compilations, and other collaborative media projects. It works with any file format and allows you to publish your work and share your media files with anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Stage 6: http://stage6.divx.com High quality videos using the divx player.
Stupid Videos: http://www.stupidvideos.com A video-sharing website that features stupid videos, stunts, sports, animals, funny commercials, song/dance, standup comedy, sketch comedy, politics, holidays, video games, and science & technology. Note that this website URL without the s at the end is a junk advertising site.
Sumo TV: http://www.sumo.tv
SuperDeluxe: http://www.superdeluxe.com One-of-a-kind comedy videos. They specialize in original funny video clips made exclusively by professional funny people.
Time Warner Network: 181 million videos viewed per month (2% market share). 26.6 million unique viewers in July 2007.
Traffic Geyser: http://www.videotrafficguys.com With this site you can upload your video to more than 35 video sharing websites and social networks - all with one click (once you set up your account).
Truveo: http://www.truveo.com AOL's video search and hosting site.
TubeMogul: http://www.tubemogul.com Allows you to upload to a select group of video-sharing websites with one upload. They also allow you to track video impressions on these sites: Google Video, Metacafe, MySpace, Revver, Yahoo!, AOL Uncut Video, DailyMotion, YouTube, Crackle, Imeem, StupidVideos, Veoh, and growing. After uploading your video to TubeMogul and entering the Title, Description, Tags, and Category, you will choose which sites you want to deploy your videos.
TubeSurf: http://www.tubesurf.com A metasearch tool that searches multiple video-search engines (YouTube, Google Video, MySpace Videos, and Yahoo! Video). Accurate but does not provide thumbnail images or a preview window.
uLinkx: http://www.ulinkx.com A browsing video search engine.
Ustream TV: http://www.ustream.tv A platform that provides live interactive video for everyone. Anyone with a camera and an Internet connection can broadcast live to a global audience. You can
create an unlimited number of shows. A built-in chat room enables interactive broadcasting.Veoh: http://www.veoh.com 53 million videos viewed each month (.6% market share). Offers an easy-to-use embeddable player, revenue-sharing, and desktop software (for downloading and viewing videos over 45 minutes long as well as to record videos for later viewing). As a Veoh Pro user (free), you can share revenue 50/50 as well as sell or rent video downloads via Veoh's ecommerce system. Veoh also provides video search to find free content anywhere on the web. CBS allows you to watch free, full-length episides of many of their most popular shows via Veoh.
Viacom Digital: 281 million videos viewed each month (3.1% market share, #4). 22.7 million unique viewers in July 2007.
Viddler: http://www.viddler.com You can upload many videos at once in a variety of formats. Videos can be up to 500 Mb. Tags can be timed along the timeline of the video; so can comments from others. You can also record direct to Viddler with a webcam. Viddler is a fresh, creative web application that lets you upload, enhance, and share digital video quickly and easily inside your web browser.
Video Bomb: http://www.videobomb.com A social bookmarking site for Internet video. Video Bomb lets you make a collection of videos that you find anywhere on the web. Share your collection by email, RSS, or embedded on your blog.
Video Egg: http://www.videoegg.com Offers 50 million viewers a month on imeem, Metacafe, and BuzzNet. As a publishing website, you can earn money delivering their ads into any video player or Flash widget. Find out more here: http://www.videoegg.com/adplatform. Their AdFrames Brand Response Network distributes video and rich media through an expandable ad unit that can be formatted to fit any page, any widget, or any online game. Microsoft is one of its advertisers.
VideoEgg is the pioneering video ad network for online communities. We connect brands to consumers with video and rich media across a network of more than 200 leading video and gaming sites, social networks and applications. ... We have 200 sites and applications in our network including over a hundred of the top Facebook apps, as well as leading social network and video communities like Bebo, Hi5, imeem, and Buzznet.
Video Jug: http://www.videojug.com An encyclopedia of everything, all done in video.
Vidiac: http://www.vidiac.com Allows website owners to create video channels. Does not seem very easy to use.
Vidilife: http://www.vidilife.com A photo and video-sharing website with email, blogs, and friends for social networking.
VidLit: http://www.vidlit.com This is apparently a video-sharing and production service for book trailers, but you would never know by visiting the website since there is no description of its purpose anywhere on the website. I looked. Very odd.
Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com Allows you to exchange videos with others and restrict who can see your videos. Designed to be a family-safe alternative to many other video-sharing sites. Viewers are allowed to download your original video to their computer.
Vixy.tv: http://www.vixy.tv A live video community. If you have a PC, an Internet connection, and video capture device (webcam, etc), you can set up a TV channel and broadcast live from your Internet connection.
VMix: http://www.vmix.com Allows users to share videos and music. Their VMix Core platform allows for enterprise-wide video and social networking.
VodPod: http://www.vodpod.com Allows you to search for videos, create a collection of your favorite videos, and then share them with others. Once you create a channel, you can use their widgets to share the videos you've collected in your blog sidebar or on your website. To search YouTube, MySpace, Daily Motion, Comedy Central, and other video-sharing sites, just type in your keywords and see what VodPod collects for you. An a-list site for marketing books and websites via video sharing.
VSocial: http://www.vsocial.com Their V:sandbox (http://www.vsocial.com/vsandbox) allows anyone to share videos for free. Their Connect service allows small to medium businesses to create branded video channels. Their Engage service allows bigger companies and agencies to create video-driven branded social networking communities. For example, Ragan Communications created MyRaganTV.com to provide blogging, forums, social networks, chat, bulletin boards, video-sharing and more for companies.
VuMe: http://www.vume.com Pays a guaranteed $3.00 per thousand clicks on your original videos, audios, and photos showcased there.
WebFives: http://www.webfives.com Formerly known as Vizrea, this video-sharing site was recently bought by Microsoft and will be closed by the end of 2007.
Yahoo Live: http://live.yahoo.com Broadcasts live video rather than recorded clips.
Yahoo Video: http://video.yahoo.com Yahoo's answer to Google Video. 390 million videos viewed each month (4.3% market share, #2). 35.3 million unique viewers (July 2007). Search: http://video.search.yahoo.com.
You Are TV: http://www.youare.tv Motto: The best independent films, shows, and videos online. Channels include action/adventure, animation, comedy, documentary, drama, experimental, family, foreign, horror, independent, kids, mockumentary, music, news, people/places, reality, romance, sci-fi/fantasy, sports, tech, and thrillers. I'm not impressed with its video player.
YouPorn: http://www.youporn.com An hard-core sex video-sharing website with 15 million visitors per month. It is the number one adult site in the world.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com The biggest video-sharing website now owned by Google. 2.4 billion videos viewed each month on YouTube (a 27% market share). 67.8 million unique viewers (July 2007). This is the most important and influential video-sharing website. The one you must use to share every video you make. Note: YouTube does not allow videos longer than 10 minutes. YouTube also offers Remixer, a remixing program at http://www.youtube.com/ytremixer.
YouTube contests: http://youtube.com/contests_main
YouTube most viewed (all time): http://youtube.com/browse?s=mp&t=a&c=0&l=
YouTube most viewed (today): http://youtube.com/browse?s=mp&t=t&c=0&l=
YouTube top rated today: http://youtube.com/browse?s=tr&t=t&c=0&l=
Video Conversion Websites
The following websites allow you to upload a video in a specific format and convert it to another format and then download it to your computer. You can convert almost any file format into another format. Note: Be prepared to wait; file conversion takes time.
DVDVideoSoft: http://www.dvdvideosoft.com. Allows you to download YouTube or Google videos as AVI files to your computer or as MPEG4 files for your iPod, PSP, or mobile phone. Also converts video to Flash for publishing on your site or blog with unique Flash players.
Miro: http://www.getmiro.com. This website and downloadable software allows you to play any video file, features thousands of channels, allows you to save YouTube videos, and more.
Miro is specifically designed to give video creators and viewers more freedom. We've built Miro to work with as many video hosting sites and video search engines as possible. We believe that the future of media depends on creators being able to choose the publishing services that work best for them, rather than being forced to use a few monopolistic services.
Replay Media Catcher: http://www.applian.com/replay-media-catcher/index.php. A program for taking videos off video sites and reformatting in various video formats.
URL Snooper: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,68938-page,1-c,video/description.html. A free program you can download at PC World's websote to download videos from any website.
Vixy.net: http://www.vixy.net. Allows you to convert YouTube videos to MP3, MPEG4 (for iPod or Mobile phones), AVI, or MOV formats.
You Convert It: http://www.youconvertit.com. Converts video and audio files into various formats.
Zamzar: http://www.zamzar.com
Blogging Sites: http://www.bookmarket.com/blogging.htm
Blog Tours, Book Trailers, and Virtual Author Tours: http://www.bookmarket.com/booktour.htm
Knowledge Sharing Websties: http://www.bookmarket.com/knowledge.htm
Social Networking Websites: http://www.bookmarket.com/socialnetworks.htm
Widget Services: http://www.bookmarket.com/widgets.htm
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