The discussion about YouTube got me thinking. I did a little tour of some video sharing sites.
I went to http://office.wreckandsalvage.com/ where they have a list of links to all the video sharing sites they upload to. A bunch of them are now defunct. All the predictable ones, like Grouper/Crackle, Studio6 and Dabble. Sharkle is still holding on somehow. I was amazed at how dull they all are. How limited the extra number of views they offer, how limited their sense of community & networking. Above all, I was struck by the incredibly limited range of videos on most of these sites. Blip is really onto something by focussing on Shows in the way that it does now. At least it's not all bikini models and sport clips. I wondered what the point of them all was. There's no way that I'm going to waste my time uploading videos to any of them, for the sake of a few dozen views by people who don't care. It seems to me that the only reason these sites would interest videobloggers & video artists is if they get videos in front of likeminded people with whom they can connect and communicate. So perhaps it's an ability to foster community that will make the difference between success and failure for these sites. I heard Vimeo has good community. And Viddler? Is that right? What about Daily Motion? Any others? Does anyone else have any good experiences on any other video sharing sites? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
