Web video is any video that is played on the internet. These videos can be placed on a website to enhance the site with more content, to show off home videos to friends and family easily and to promote a business – like your website, blog or internet marketing business. Whatever the reason for the videos, the internet has made it possible to show them off.
The term web video covers any video that is on the internet. Most businesses use web videos to train new employees, broadcast a commercial, demonstrate how a product works or even just to speak directly to their viewers about their product or service. With more and more businesses utilizing the use of web videos, this is now the way to go for internet marketing.
Since the internet is used by millions of people around the world, you literally can increase your exposure by placing videos on the internet. These web videos can range from simple and informative to dramatic. It is usually a personal choice as to how extreme a web video to be. In addition, customer response will help you decide how dramatic you should go with the video. If your video does not get you the response you want, then you can easily change the video out to a new video.
You are only limited by your own imagination when it comes to web videos. How dramatic your video is, where you video is shown and what type of prospective customers or clients you want your video shown too are all choices that you can make. Therefore, get as much information as you can on web videos so that you can better decide just what you want your video to look like and how you are going to use your web video.
We will be presenting several topics on video blogging, and video for your website.
As new posts are made, we will add the item here to make it a “one-stop shop” for all your video blogging needs.
Video Blogging or vlogging is the buzzword of the day.
But video blogging is not new. It’s been around since 2005, however as the technology (used to record videos) has improved it has opened the doors to more individuals. You can get high quality digital video records that you can take with you for under $200.00 – combined with the portability a laptop offers plus wireless internet connections and internet cafes everywhere — you can be in constant contact with your blog (or vlog).
So where did video blogging start? Where did it originate from? WHO was the first video blogger?
Significant Events in the Development of Video Blogs
2003, May 22 – Maurizio Dovigi, an Italian journalist, launches No Filter, the first European vlog.
2003, June 15 – Nacho Durán launches the first (known) South American (Sao Paulo, Brazil) videoblog based on soundless loops made out of sequences of pictures daily taken from a portable webcam.
2004, January 1 – Steve Garfield launches his videoblog and declares that 2004 would be the year of the video blog.
2004, June 1 – Peter Van Dijck and Jay Dedman start the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group, which becomes the center of a community of vloggers
2005, January – Vloggercon, the first videoblogger conference, is held in New York City.
2005, July 20 – The Yahoo! Videoblogging Group grows to over 1,000 members.
2006, July – YouTube has become the 5th most popular web destination, with 100 million videos viewed daily, and 65,000 new uploads per day.
2006, July 5 – Host Amanda Congdon leaves Rocketboom over differences with her business partner Andrew Baron.
2006, November – The Vloggies, the first annual videoblogging awards, is held in San Francisco.
2007, May and August – The Wall Street Journal places a grandmother on the front page of its Personal Journal section. In August she is featured on an ABC World News Tonight segment[20] showing the elderly now becoming involved in the online video world.
A Video Blog (or VLOG) can be described, simply, as postings of videos on a website which encourages comments from the audience. Though traditional blogs are designed to encourage comments, with VLOGS participation is required even more since the comments will tell the story behind the video and will encourage other visitors to the site to view the video and participate.
Video logs (vlogs) also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using either the RSS or Atom syndication formats, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers.
What do Vlogs Offers than Blogs Don’t?
A vlog helps you to communicate with the audience and they can actually see the expressions on your face and hear the voice. You can build a one-to-one relationship with your audience. Why do you think the TV is so addictive? Someone who is charismatic or even butt ugly will command attention – surely you must remember William Hung who was on American Idol from the third season of the television program?
William Hung Commands a Cult Following
Hung rapidly gained a cult following. A William Hung fan site, set up by realtor Don Chin and his wife Laura, recorded over four million hits within its first week. Hung subsequently appeared on several television programs including Jimmy Kimmel, On Air with Ryan Seacrest, Entertainment Tonight, The Late Show With David Letterman, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Howard Stern Radio Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Dateline NBC, Arrested Development and CBS’s The Early Show. Hung was featured in several national magazines and newspapers; he was parodied on Saturday Night Live and appeared on Celebrity Deathmatch. He was reportedly invited to perform at MTV’s Asia Awards held in mid-February. Remixes of Hung’s audition performance topped song request lists at a number of radio stations. An online petition to get Hung back to American Idol included more than 100,000 signatures by late February. Hung was brought back to American Idol as part of a mid-season special titled Uncut, Uncensored and Untalented, airing March 1, 2004. The special documented what it was like to experience the audition process and, in Hung’s case, emerge as an inadvertent celebrity. Hung has become more famous than many American Idol contestants, being arguably one of the worst singers to grace the American Idol audition stage.
William went on to get a record deal, and appearances in television, commercials and movies!
That’s the power of TV and that’s the same power that vloggers are looking to cash in on.
Lets look at another viral video that can be found on YouTube – I’m sure there are many other examples, but this one always sticks in my mind – the infamous “fat guy sings Numa Numa”. The Numa Numa video has had over 13,000,000 (yes, that 13 MILLION) views and over 74,000 ratings!
Here’s the video, for your enjoyment:
That’s the power behind vlogging.
Before you jump into vlogging, are you sure you can easily convey your feelings? You need to appear natural when vlogging. With blogging you could “fake it” — but you can’t with a vlog. So for a general blog, you can write about a topic using keywords to draw attention while for a video blog the video does it all – but it’s not just the video, it is the person behind the video.
I’ve seen some very entertaining videos, and others that are trying — but are faking it… yes, I know I said you can’t but these enterprising individuals certainly were able to! They were dry, and lifeless. The text was obviously scripted — which might be fine, but they spoke in monotone. Boring. I left the site as quickly as I arrived.
Video Blogs are ideal for news journalism. It is wonderful tool for delivering content like television content, and the list is never ending. Video Blogs help you to share the enthusiasm present in the content. This is revolutionary as before it was a quibble with words but now it is reality in the making.
John Chow, who is currently in China vlogs on his traditional blog on a regular basis. The posts are entertaining and give you insight into life in another part of the world first-hand.
Video Blogs help you to keep close to your family when you are away from home. You can share your infant’s first babble or the first steps with your parents. Nowadays reaching out through video blogging is easy and hassle free. Forget sitting down the family to watching slides, or videos at home – post them to your personal website and let friends and family from around the world view them when they want.
Although we are getting a bit ahead of ourselves here – you really need to know what is a good camera and microphone to use plus some other neat tips and tricks, we’ll go over some Free Places to Host and Post Your Videos. Videos can eat up bandwidth pretty damn quick – you certainly don’t want to host them on your site. The most notable places to host are YouTube, and Yahoo Video – but there are many other solutions out there and we’ll present you with some great sites.
So I was surfing the web, and came across TechCrunch – you know the guys the ones wth almost 800,000 RSS feed readers and gazillions of visitors to their site. Well anyway they had this write up on a new service called StartYourTube.com.
StartYourTube does exactly what the name implies. You can go onto the site, create your own “tube”, customize it with colors and graphics, mask it to your own domain, invite friends, and start loading content. The tubes not only host videos but have sections for pictures, audio files, and blogs as well.
So we popped on over to ensure that nobody squatted on OIBO – donachaknow it’ll become a household name some day…
So on top of being able to run your own YouTube copy-cat service, you have the chance at winning $500 – every friggin month! Now if that’s not cool, I don’t know what is.
So anyway you visit the site:
Sign up for a free account
Personalize YOUR tube
Invite your friends
Upload COOL content
Make MONEY $$$ from advertising
Spread the word Tube … isn’t that like “invite your friends???”
Signing up for an account is really, really painless:
Step #1
Select a name for your tube – I use videoblogging.
Step #2
Enter your name, postal code and country. If you’re into the porn thing – you can even create adult content for your Tube. We’re not into porn. Much too ugly for that.
Step #3
Tada! Confirmation message and you’re done. You can check out a couple of Tubes we created. Nothing on ‘em right now…
Once you go to your Tube page, this is what the default looks like:
Not too fancy – but it looks a lot like YouTube.
But since we’re all into MAKING MONEY ONLINE – how can you make money with StartYourTube? Easy – YOUR OWN ADVERTISING! Check it out…
You can set up to 9 different types of advertising on your Tube.
The ads can be changed by entering the ads code in the appropriate field.
The top banner space can not be deactivate in order to keep our design integrity.
You can use these space to display common html code also instead of ads.
The popular pages are the following pages: Main home page of your video sharing portal, The video player page, The Image viewer page, The audio player page.
The Other pages are the following: Top videos pages, Top images pages, Top audio pages, Top blogs pages, Search pages, Sign up pages, Help pages.
The blogs pages are the following: All the page on users blogs.
This post isn’t really meant to walk you through StartYourTube, so we won’t go into the control panel that’s visible when you first log into your account – we’ll save that for a later post.
Because we’re pretty damn sure you’re pretty damn smart and can figure it out on your own. But did you notice the “Upgrade your plan”? What’s this all about? Check THIS out:
So the basic plan, that we signed up under give you 10,000 views, 200 videos and 200 blogs at a cost of $0 per month. Want more? BasicPlan @ $9.95/mo gives you 20,000 views, 500 videos and 500 blogs while the PremiumPlan @ $49.85/mo gives you 100,000 views, 2000 videos and 2000 blogs. That’s how they’ll make money.
Check out StartYourTube – who knows, as the site says…
Mebbe your site will be the next BIG thing and you’ll be able to sell it off? Who knows? They figure that you will be able to cash in…
With OVER 12,000 tubes created so far, you better head over there RIGHT NOW and stake your claim. Because you get a sub-domained name off of StartYourTube.com a lot of the cool names will get taken QUICKLY!
StartYourTube (white label video sharing platform) is a user-owned and user-generated content platform for video sharing and blogging. StartYourTube allows users to take back ownership of their content by creating and managing video sites with their own personal domain name. Users choose any sub domain (Snowboarders.StartYourTube.com) or they can use a domain name they own (SnowboardersTube.com). StartYourTube.com is a search engine friendly web-based application that requires no programming experience. Members earn up to 60% of all advertising revenue from their sites.
Video blogging is not new. There are many blogs out there… er sorry, VLOGS out there. But how do you get into video blogging? Just what is video blogging all about? How is video blogging different from podcasting?
I’ll be answering these questions, and then some over the next few months with an exclusive series on video blogging.
As part of the series, my goal is to interview video bloggers to gain insight into their tools and processes.
I will be posting the excerpts of the entire series on the blog here, BUT the full-post will be password protected. In order to view the content, you will need to register for my blog alerts.
In preparation for this series, I’m asking YOU – what pressing information or questions do you need answered on the topic of video blogging? Who do YOU feel we should interview? Simply comment to the post!
In fact, it is SO EASY that I put together a quick YouTube video showing you how.
This video shows you from A to Z, how to record your video using an applicationcalled Camtasia. How to convert the video to aformat that is acceptable to YouTube, and how toupload the video to YouTube.
I show you which plugin you simply must have in order to quickly and easily display the video to your users.
I’ll show you where to download the plugin from, how to install it and configure it and will show you the plugin in action — that is, how to add your recently uploaded video to YouTube also appear on your post.
Now why would you want to upload videos to YouTube? Why not just upload them to your server?
Viral videos
Space & bandwidth
If your video is GOOD, word will spread and it becomes viral or atleast A LOT of people view the video.
Why host the video on your site and suck up bandwidth? Let YouTube use up their bandwidth hosting your videos.
I do apologize in advance for how grainy the video is. When it was recorded, it was much cleaner. Here is the video…
We will be presenting several topics on video blogging, and video for your website.
Video Blogging or vlogging is the buzzword of the day.
So I was surfing the web, and came across 
With OVER 12,000 tubes created so far, you better head over there RIGHT NOW and stake your claim. Because you get a sub-domained name off of StartYourTube.com a lot of the cool names will get taken QUICKLY!
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