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Uploading Videos Once To Multiple Video Sharing Sites
Tonight I’m in San Antonio Texas for a few days of fun and sun with the family at Sea World. It’s about a five hour trip from where I live so I had some time on the road to listen to audio books and think. I took in about four chapters of The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss and I can tell you it’s worth the read, or download and listen in my case.
Tim often refers to people in his book as the New Rich. These are the people who have learned to maximize their time while minimizing their work hours to get the most benefit from their efforts. The point is to live your life without engaging in “soul crushing activities” for the sake of “being a hard worker”.
This got me to thinking about ways to reduce some of the less value added takes I perform. For example, when I upload videos to sharing sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, Blip.Tv, or Vimeo I usually upload them one at a time. But a better way would be to upload a video once and have it upload to multiple video sharing sites without any extra effort on my part. In fact, I could probably get an assistant to do the task for me.
The site I have my eye on for automating video upload processes is Hey!Spread.com. They offer an inexpensive service for uploading videos to multiple sharing sites and they have an application programming interface (API) that I can use to hook mulitple sites and software to the service. That means I could automate some of my video distribution tasks and possible create tools and services that others would be willing to pay for.
If you haven’t heard of them or haven’t been to their updated site recently, then give them a visit and see what they have to offer. They really have an impressive list of supported video sharing sites and they are adding services regularly.
Now, off to bed for me. Sea World awaits!
Charles McKeever
OpenSourceMarketer.com
Charles,
Thanks for the heads up on this new video syndication service. I’ve been using Traffic Geyser for a long time with pretty good results but some of the features on Hey!Spread look better. Especially the ability to track videos. I’m going to give it a try.
I do wish though that it included PodCasts like TG does.
Hi,
Video sharing is all the rage these days. We all want to share our videos, to share our passions and the things we like. There are so many sites around to publish our videos on the web that it is sometimes hard to make a choice. We know some of them like YouTube, Revver or Dailymotion, but there are so many others competing to be the number one, or targeting a specific audience, whether geographically (China, Japan, Turkey…), by language (German, Arabic, French…) or for the kind of content they enable to publish (cooking, planes, extreme sports…).
I have compiled a growing list of more than 750 video sharing sites, video search engines, and video download sites that you can check at http://www.ilikesharingvideos.com
For each of them, you will get useful information such as their history, the country from which most of their visitors come, their niche, their rank, their latest news…
This site offers some other interesting features, like a forum about online videos, how to make money with your videos, how to create your own YouTube site, etc.
So if you are interested in video sharing or online video marketing, give an eye to this site, it worths it.
Cheers
We’ve been using TubeMogul for over a year for this purpose, and they’re great. Our major focus is
Dan
Gary Vaynerchuck Recommends Tubemogul to upload video to a bunch of video sites with one upload.
fun fact: there is a service called “Viddler” that is like youtube, but you can brand the player itself when you embed it to your website. That’s right, you can have your own brand name on the player rather than it simply saying “YouTube” or anything like that.
do a search for it, as it will help you right now more than it will help me.
David, I definitely agree. Tubemogul is a great tool for streamlining the video publishing process. At the time that I wrote this post I wasn’t aware of Tubemogul. I’m not sure if it was around. Tubemogul also gives some great viewership stats.
Viddler is an good video sharing service. When I tried it over a year ago they had a nice viewer commenting system, but they had bandwidth issues. Hopefully they’ve addressed that since then. I’ll have to check out their private label player, especially if you can pre-roll ads in videos.
At Affiliate Summit West, there was an interesting mix of video products entering the affiliate marketing space. We’ll definitely be exploring video tools on Open Source Marketer in 2010.
Are you using Viddler on your website?