Crikey. That's not a happy story. Hadn't really thought about just getting an account deleted at Blip without warning, the way they do at YouTube.
I do periodically worry about what would happen if Blip suddenly shut down - in terms of ensuring everything is backed up and replaced. I could host everything myself - I have 'unlimited' hosting space and bandwidth with Dreamhost, not that I need it. Although I estimate that Twittervlog has streamed about 2-3 terabytes via Blip in the last couple of years. For free. Thanks, Blip! YouTube and Ovi have both had to transfer even more than that. Crikey. Gives you pause for thought. What's the carbon footprint of 10TB of data transferred over standard DSL connections, and half a million 2-3 minute videos watched on computers? That's like 2 years of non-stop video watching. I wonder how long these days of free bandwidth and free storage of huge media files will last. How sustainable are all these free video sites? That reminds me that I shut down my first videoblog in 2005 because I got scared that the bandwidth bills were going to be too high after I started to get a few hundred views. Excesses were charged per MB. A lot has changed in a short time. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 29-Oct-09, at 1:13 PM, Sheila E wrote: > I'm sorry you're having problems with BlipTV but I'm glad to see a > discussion about Blip show up here. > > Blip is obviously changing focus and evolving which a business needs > to do, but their customer service has been terrible. It is not the > BlipTV I'm used to. I, too, have been with them for a long time. > Recently I've seen other discouraging signs from their camp. I hope > they pay attention to the feedback of their content providers and do > something about their new short-comings. > > With that said, I had them delete my entire account a few weeks ago > without saying anything to me at all. Years of loyalty to them, > hundreds of videos and that was how I was treated. Very upsetting. > > I tried emailing and that was not helpful at all. So here is what I > did- > > I called their one and only number that I could get to work. Guess > what that was? Yep. Sales. I got someone on their sales line and > said, "Oh! I'm sorry. I must have gotten the wrong extension. Can I > have tech support please?" > They said, "Sure!" and they transferred me to tech support. > > At that point I had to plead my case that my BlipTV channel was > entertainment based and not commercial based. After a few minutes of > negotiation (aka begging) they put my channel back up. But now I > don't trust them like I did. > > Even Veoh, who I've never thought as being nearly as good as BlipTV, > sends out emails to content providers to let them know about > changes, etc. > > Veoh recently made some changes to their content management system > that I'm really happy about. You can see the different between Blip > and Veoh on my site- > > www.readersentertainment.tv > > I have Blip on the homepage and the Zombie Today page and I have > Veoh on the genre channels. My back up plan now is to convert the > other two pages to Veoh if Blip arbitrarily deletes my account again. > > Now, to make a long story...longer... > > Heyspread.com has a feature that lets you move all the videos you > have on YouTube to another site. I had my vimeo account hacked last > year and I had over 300 videos on it. I used the Heyspread feature > and for something like $25 they put the videos on Vimeo for me that > I also have on YouTube. It was great! > > Good luck with BlipTV! > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Warner <awarne...@...> > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm disappointed to learn that Blip.tv is discouraging me from > hosting my videos. I'm especially disappointed because I have been > using Blip since the beta days (under two accounts). I feel like > I've just been kicked in the gut. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
