Monday, July 6, 2009

It's not all You Tube you know!

You could be forgiven for thinking Tube was the only platform for delivering video content online. However, there are alternative services out there. Services with better security, such as Akamai as used by the Whitehouse Presidential addresses.

Vimeo looks like a great little service too! If you have your own web server and don't mind paying for data, you can always encode your own videos in Flash and playback (with a buffer) online, or set them up for streaming using Flash Media Server.

"Marketing with video media can produce response rates of up to 60%, compared to 0.1% for print media". Not sure how they worked that out exactly, but it's obvious there would be a big difference in impact.

I like this statement: According to Nielsen/NetRatings, more than 72 percent of Internet users do more than just surf the Web, and popular Internet activities include watching video clips.

Really? OMG... that is amazing! :-)

Here is a list of some other video related services...

http://www.ustream.tv/
http://www.mogulus.com/
http://live.yahoo.com/
http://www.blogtv.com/
http://www.kyte.tv/
http://www.stickam.com/
http://operator11.com/
http://www.livevideo.com/
http://yaika.com/
http://www.veodia.com/
http://www.streamavideo.com/
http://www.selfcast.com/

Knock yourself out!