DISQUS

Christian · 9 months ago

Hello David, great Post as always! I was also searching for a service who is hosting my videos. I was thinking about a plus-account at vimeo, but they say it isn't allowed for commercial content. I wonder because you also use it in a commercial way, don't you? Also a pro account at blip is possible. But the tip with eZs3 is very good!! Thanks, didn't know the service yet. Maybe this is exactly what I was searching for.

Portland Roofer · 9 months ago

Is there any general consensus about how videos can help small online businesses? Either how-to educational pieces, or just personality feature-ettes on the company personnel?

Blog Expert · 9 months ago

I'm sticking with YouTube.

David · 9 months ago

Christian, The videos I put on Vimeo are generally just informational. I don't really pitch things on them. And if I were to do videos for a product launch or something, I'd put them on S3 rather than Vimeo.

David · 9 months ago

Portland, all of the above. Seriously, there isn't any single good way to use online video. It is really just up to you what you want to produce. Don't make the mistake of overthinking it too much.

Christian · 9 months ago

I agree 100% with no denying yourself the exposure on YouTube just because of the sheer mass of their user base...one question: If I'm building a subscription blog that will use video, obviously I don't want the video accessible on YouTube :) Any work around, or am I looking pretty much exclusively and encoding and hosting the vids myself at that point? thx!

make money home · 9 months ago

I had not heard of all of those video submission sites, I am trying to integrate more video submission into my plan - do you think it would be good for videos on make money online sites?

alex · 9 months ago

great article. thank

Jake Stone · 9 months ago

Portland, I'd go with educational pieces as there are wide array of practical actions, which are very difficult to describe in words.

ChuckRosseel · 8 months ago

Some very good tips here. I'm new to your blog so I still have many more videos to watch. After viewing one of your vids about quality I felt I wasn't taking advantage of all my Zeiss Lens Sony video camera has to offer. Now I will. So far I haven't seen a video about lighting tips but I'll keep exploring your blog. Thanks.

Andrew · 3 months ago

One really important point that I haven't seen talked about is the risks associated with Free hosting.

If all your videos are hosted on You Tube and for whatever reason they decide to cancel your account... (and trust me this does happen, usually without warning or explanation), you'll lose all your video content in one hit...potentially months of work.

From what I've heard you're much safer hosting your precious video content locally or using a third party such as Amazon. Yes, you may pay a little but at least you'll have a lot more reliability, security and peace of mind. I guess you gotta ask yourself what is your video content and the traffic it generates worth to you??

Sure, distribute your videos everywhere you can, but personally I'd go with paid hosting (albeit very cheap) to offset the potential risks.