Video Sharing Services 101
As broadband has become more ubiquitous since 2005 video sharing services have spawned a video clip culture. Wikipedia defines clip culture as follows :
Clip culture, compared to “lean-back” experience of seeing traditional movies, refers to an internet activity of sharing and viewing a short video, mostly less than 15 minutes. The culture began as early as the development of broadband network, but it sees the boom since 2005 when websites for uploading clips are emerging on the market, including youtube, Google Video, MSN Video.
Those video clips often shows a moments of significance, humour, oddity, prodigy performance. Sources for video clips include news, movies, music video and amateur video shot. In addition to the clip recorded by high-quality camcorders, it is getting common to produce clips with digital camera, webcam, and mobile phone.
Video Sharing Services Reference Material
Ten video sharing services compared by Ryan Bilsborrow Koo
Ultimate guide to online video in Wired Magazine
Yahoo video mimics YouTube in Wired Magazine
Vlogs, vloggers and vlogosphere in CNET News
Cameras, action, edit. Now, Await Reviews by Scott Kirsner
Video enablers I’ve noticed by Bambi Francisco
Top Ten Video Sharing Sites by Phil Harvey
The trouble with YouTube by The Economist
Hey there, Lonely Girl by Adam Sternbergh
Kazaa, Skype and now The Venice Project by Steve Rosenbush
Online video : tasty takeover targets? by Catherine Holahan
VideoEgg gets a jolt of VC by Steve Rosenbush
YouTube’s Video Poker by Saul Hansell
Why Online Video Sites Are Hot Targets by Steve Rosenbush
The YouTube Revolution special report by Forbes
The Secret World of Lonely Girl by Joshua Davis
Future of TV special report by BBC
YouTube vs Boob Tube by Bob Garfield
Blip.tv Brings Vlogs to Masses by Michael Cohn
The New Media Mogul by Arik Hesseldahl
5 Internet startups building the TV networks of tomorrow by Erick Schonfeld
Millions of videos, and now a way to search inside them by Jason Pontin
MTV speaks out on their vision of user grabability and quoting moving forward by MITCCC
Push comes to Shove for Control of Web Video by Richard Siklos
This Internet program is brought to you by … by Eric Pfanner
The high price of getting paid for content by Catherine Holahan
Online how-to videos rise in popularity by Steve Mollman
A Site Warhol Would Relish by Randall Stross
Tips from web greats on becoming a legend by Lee Gomes
NBC acquires Quarterlife : Internet series will run first online by Bill Carter
At 71 Physics Professor is a Web star by Sara Rimer
Video Sharing Services
Adap.tv - contextual overlay advertising
Blinx - video search engine
Blip - video sharing service
CastTV - web video search
Dave.tv - social broadcast network
DailyMotion - video sharing service
Digg Videos : video aggregator based on user votes
Dragonfly - universal multimedia publishing platform
Eyespot - simple video mixing and sharing
GoFish watch, upload and share videos
Google Video - online video marketplace
Gotuit - searches inside the video versus for the video
Grouper - watch, share, create videos
Guba - watch, share and upload videos
Howcast - instruction videos
JumpCut - create a movie right in your browser
Kyte - social communications platform
Livelocker - social media bookmarking site
Magnify - find, filter and share video your way
MetaCafe - video sharing community
Mogulus - live broadcasting
Multiply - personal digibank
One True Media - mixing and sharing video tools
Operator 11 - social television network
Qik - streaming video right from your handset
Revver - supporting video creators
ScanScout - contextual overlay advertising
Seesmic - dashboard for your video conversations
Shozu - mobile social media services
Umundo - mobile to web video transfer service
uStream - user generated live video community
Utterz - voice, video, pictures and text from your phone
Viddler - upload, enhance and share your videos
VideoBomb - discover and share interesting videos
VideoEgg - online video publishing tools
VideoSift - community clearinghouse for best of web video
Vidmirror - video upload service to multiple video hosting services
Viewdle - facial recognition powered digital media platform
Vizrea - share audio, pictures and video anywhere
vMix - enables video mashups with copyright content
Vodpod - Your video feed reader
Yahoo Video - publish, share, rank and search videos on the web
YouTube - most popular video sharing service