New Video Hosting
It has never been easier for people in my line of work to share video samples online. With combination of high speed Internet and online sharing sites, it makes mylife really easy. In the past, there were very few sharing sites, and the load times were slow and the quality wasn’t that great. Many people, including myself, would host video on their own web server. This means choosing a format, and then hoping you don’t get overloaded with people watching it and using up your bandwidth for the month.
Last year I started using Google Video, YouTube, and Yahoo Video. Yahoo Video had become my main area to store my video and use it for my web page because they allowed longer video clips than YouTube (they only allow 10 minutes) and Yahoo looked better than Google. I have recently thought of encoding things to Flash myself, but that becomes more trouble than it is worth.
What all of these sharing sites have in common and is that not only am I storing video for free, but people can now search for it. When you host on your own site, you can only find it by going to that site. Now, people can share your clips and find your site from these other sites. The other great part is that these sites all encode in Flash. In the past you really had to make that choice between QucikTime® and Windows Media®. Then you had to worry about if people had one of the other. With Flash, anyone who has their web browser up to date can view these videos.
Today, I have started posting on a new site. It is DailyMotion.com. What I really like about them is that interface is simple, and that they allow you to have videos that are up to 20 minutes long. Here is a sample of what it looks like.
It’s very clean, and very simple, and I hope that you all enjoy.