Archive for the 'UGC' Category

Referrals to Online Video: Search vs. Social Networking Sites?

While most of the traffic to various online videos came via social networking sites in 2007 April, one year later, we see that search engines (and video search engines) came a long distance and scored a draw, according to the data presented by Hitwise, and I am positive that search will increase further.
Heather Dougherty writes
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Embedding YouTube Videos with Voting and Comments

Currently what you can do is that you embed youtube, daily motion, revver, metacafe, etc. videos, but if you want to see the votes, views, and direct vid comments, you need to go to the original video social networking, or search or whatever vid aggregator site.
Could it be a killer app to enhance video embedding […]

StartYourTube Promising to Enable Businesses To Have Their Own YouTube

Businesses can not only create and customize their own ‘youtube’ or youtube-like channels for free, but can keep 60% of the ad revenue and use their own domain name through Start Your Tube, a Montreal based company supported by the Neotech Capital Innovation Hatchery. While domain masking is not available on the old YouTube as […]

Flickr Video Goes Live in Fact - for Pros at least

Just as everybody expected, Flickr Video has indeed been launched on April 9, 2008 - after a closed beta testing. It’s only for those with a pro account. Video search: videos will appear along photos in search results (with advanced search you can look for vids only), within new uploads from friends, in Explore, on […]