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Social Media Discussion:Video
By: Valerie Bendish and Matt Runge
An online service that allows anyone to upload clips or videos.
The host website will store the video on its server. Because of this other users can view the videos.
Most of the time it is free. (Most of the examples talked about will be)
Video Sharing Website
Top 25 Video Sites
How many have you heard of? How many do you use?
1. Google Video2. Bright Cove3. PhotoBucket4. YouTube5. Daily Motion6. iFilm7. Myspace8. Vimeo9. Buzz Net10. Flixya11. GoFish12. Kwego
13. MyHeavy14. Lulu15. Put File16. Stupid Videos17. Vmix18. Zippy Videos19. Cast Post20. Dotv21. Famster22. MeraVideo23. Porkolt24. Video Web Town25. Vidmax
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM0lF-LHWqg
Background and History
The history of Youtube
They call it a “Life Videopedia”◦ Describes itself as a leading syndication platform
for broadband instructional, knowledge and lifestyle videos
◦ 20 categories and 140 subcategories. Examples: Fitness: MTV Lauren Conrad’s workout video Food: Superbowl party chicken wings recipe Business: How to overcome major money myths Music: How to play Bass for beginners Knowledge: Learn to speak basic Russian More: Sports, video games, pets, travel, parenting,
fashion, people, arts, home, etc.
5min.com- What is it?
Users can create their own studio, favorites list and interact with other members.
Offers new features like slow motion and zoom for learning new skills
“The ideal place for step-by-step guides, ingredients listings, tabs, lyrics, sheet music, recipes…you name it!”
5min- How can it be used?
Users who feel inclined to broadcast helpful tricks and tips from a spectrum of everyday life categories.
Viewers looking for quick solutions Advertizing agencies Content Partners and Site Publishers
◦ Diet.com, everwell, womens day, watchmojo.com◦ Wikihow, tips.net, wikia, etc.
5min– Who uses it?
Increased exposure, views and revenue for your content
Blog recognition Learning opportunities Video Statistics
What’s in it for the organization? Money from agencies coupling with their
site to increase exposure
5min- What’s in it for you?
Videojug Sclipo Sutree 5min ExpertVillage ViewDo HelpfulVideo TeacherTube Vidipedia YouTube
Top 10 How-To Sites
Founded in 1999 by two high school friends from Baltimore, Maryland
Entertainment site whose target audience is college students
College Humor- What is it?
“Users upload pictures, videos, articles and Hotlinks, and we post the best ones.”
Entertainment Linking sites Article writing Internship
College Humor- How can it be used?
College Students are the target audience and are the only ones allowed to comment on the main videos.
Viewers entertainment: Anyone interested http://www.collegehumor.com/video:190281
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College Humor- Who uses it?
Featured Writers Internship Exposure Pure entertainment School connections Social networking
College Humor- What’s in it for you?
“Ideas worth spreading” Started out in 1984 as a conference
bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design
Talks offered:◦ Persuasive, courageous, ingenious, fascinating,
inspiring, beautiful, funny, informative.
Ted.com- What is it?
Education device Becoming active: Events
and conferences Spreading your ideas
Ted.com- How can it be used?
Professors Educators Innovators Speakers Interested viewers
TED Conference in Long Beach, California TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site the Open Translation Program the new TEDx community program this year's TEDIndia Conference the annual TED Prize.
Ted.com- Who uses it?
Enlightened talkers from across the Globe Why is this significant?
Persuasive, courageous, ingenious, fascinating, inspiring, beautiful, funny, informative.
Ted.com- What’s in it for you?
YouTube- What is it? YouTube is, first and foremost, a social
networking site. It includes similar features as popular sites
like Facebook and Twitter.◦ Friends◦ Comments◦ Favorites (Liking)◦ Video Replies
YouTube- How can it be used? Many well known companies and music
artists have used YouTube to help sell their product or even themselves.◦ Boys Like Girls◦ Justin Bieber
Different television channels can also share clips and episodes of their programs.◦ NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS
YouTube- Who uses it? It was reported in 2009 that 123 million
people view YouTube in a day. YouTube has become responsible for many
different popular internet trends.◦ Obama Girl◦ Will It Blend?◦ Numa Numa Dance◦ lonelygirl15
YouTube- What’s in it for you? Out of the Top 15 all time viewed videos on
YouTube, most of them consisted of music videos by Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and Pitbull.
However, No. 1 is a well known Internet trend that has been remade by different peopl, and even in different remix songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM – Over 157 million views.
Video Hosts Save on bandwidth costs, sometimes even
eliminating the cost entirely. Uploading videos usually require a high
computer knowledge. The various web browsers allow an easier experience so virtually anyone can now upload videos.
Fox, NBC, and ABC all went together to plan a new venture titled Hulu.
It started as a Beta test in October 2007. they realized to work they would need sponsers. (commercials)
The site went live to the public in March 12, 2008.
Hulu- What is it?
Hulu- How can it be used? For viewing pleasure after missing an
episode Hulu supports various television shows and
movies that are offered by different television networks and studios.
Videos are streamed for free, from the support of commercials that are viewed during the videos at different moments.
Hulu- What’s in it for you? People can create an account and start to
rate and view various programs. They can comment on different shows and
episode, and even help recommend different videos to other people. The site’s videos are rated by the amount of views a video gets.
However, other viewers cannot upload videos.
Google Video Used to allow uploading of videos, similar to
Youtube. However, in 2009 Google discontinued the
function and Google Video became a search engine that found videos from other video sharing websites.
http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/list-of-29-free-video-sharing-sites/
http://mashable.com/2007/05/14/video-howtos/
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