Track & blast distribute videos on top sites like YouTube
Jul 30th, 2007 by Vikram Rajan
You’ll be able to see more of my short videos in weeks to come. For example, the “Podcasting by Phone” webinar I did on July 28 for PodCamp City On-line should be available soon.
While YouTube is the “google” of video sharing sites (literally), it’s not the only one. You should distribute your videos to all the top YouTube competitors for maximum visibility. And it doesn’t take much time! Remember to keep your videos short:
- According to comScore market research, the average watching duration was only 2.5 minutes.
- Many sites have file size restrictions: Shorter video = smaller file size.
- Quicker turnaround: Short videos can be posted more often, more consistently.
More and more “video blasters” or distribution services are coming out; each offers something different and better (distinctive value). It’s annoying that you have to create individual accounts on the video hosting sites, but that’s a one-time inconvenience. Here are 3 free services…
Hey!Spread enables you to blast your video to the most amount of (top) video sites (of course you don’t have to spread your video to all of ‘em):
Vidmetrix.com enables you to blast to only the 7 top sites - YouTube, Myspace, Metacafe, Google, Yahoo, Revver, and Veoh. But more importantly, as their name suggests, VidMetrix also helps you track your views, comments, blog links that reference your video, and show-off your success through a metrics widget.
TubeMogul.com, measures like VidMetrix and focuses only on the top 6 video sites: YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, MySpace, Revver, Yahoo!, and the annoying-to-use, but still popular: AOL Uncut Video. TubeMogul also allows you to measure the viewing success of your video across these websites, and even monitor other people’s video viewing success (which comes in handy to keep tabs on your competitors or friends).
Since they’re not necessarily mutually exclusive, used together, you’ll be able to get your video maximum exposure and measure its success. If you know of other video distribution services, let me know.
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Great post, Vic!
It’s good to list these resources in addition to just Youtube. And videos would certainly help one’s personal branding over time…
So here’s an opportunity for a personal brand marketing tip: ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS spell a person’s name correctly.
ALWAYS.
ALWAYS.
ALWAYS, especially when it has an “odd” spelling (or its not [yet] a ‘normal American’ name). First-generation Americans are a sensitive bunch.
ALWAYS SPELL A NAME CORRECTLY.
~ Vikram