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A selective guide to key video
sharing sites
Free sites
http://www.bliptv.com
Founded in 2003, the site offers to cut through
the dross, locating and hosting the best and
funniest video clips from other video websites. It
shows films and clips lasting between 10 seconds
to three minutes gathered under certain key
topics such as short films, animations and spoofs.
with their friends and so on. When you upload
You’ll also find extreme sports and popular video
your video to Revver, they attach an unobtrusive
Subscription sites
clips from other films and programmes.
advertisement to the end of it. This is called
http://www.neptune.com/
www.clipshack.com
‘Revverizing.’ Whenever anyone clicks on that ad,
A video sharing site in the YouTube mould.
http://www.streamload.com/
the maker gets paid. Revver hosts such videos for
The content dominated by certain key themes
http://www.phanfare.com/
free, giving participants the tools to share it with
including funny family and animal clips.
the world and then splits the ad revenue with the
Amateur Film Making Sites
http://www.ifilm.com/
video-maker 50/50.
http://www.fvi.org.uk/index.html
iFilm is an online archive of short films, movie
www.sharkle.com
IAC – The Film and Video Institute (includes list
trailers, and other video clips of interest. Like
Sharkle is an online community that allows
of about 300 local film clubs, a small ads board,
many commercial websites, it offers free basic
users to share videos over the internet, both
and a forum).
service supported by ads, as well as ‘premium’
publicly and privately. The service is free to users,
services featuring higher-resolution clips. iFilm
http://www.glosvideoclub.org.uk/
and the company that runs it hopes to make
also hosts many viral marketing videos, allowing
This is a good example of a website for a film
money with advertisements on the site.
these clips to spread between users easily. As
and video club in Gloucester!
www.youtube.com
of October 15 2005, it was purchased by MTV
YouTube is a popular free video sharing web
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/
Networks in a multi-million dollar deal.
site which lets users upload, view, and share
United_Kingdom/Entertainment/Movies_
http://www.myspace.com
video clips. Founded in February 2005 by three
and_Film/Filmmaking/Amateur/
Set up in 2003 by Chris DeWolfe – the site
employees of PayPal, the San Bruno-based service
Yahoo list of amateur film sites in UK.
offers simple software, enabling members to
utilizes Adobe Flash technology to display video. Video And Mobile Phones
create their own mini-blog and vlogsites. Visitors
The wide variety of site content includes movie
are then invited to view them meaning that each
http://www.micromovie-award.com/
and TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur
site maintains its own discreet community. The
One of several mobile phone movie
content such as videoblogging. It is staffed by
site is famous for building a substantial fan base
competitions.
67 employees. In October 2006, Google, Inc.,
for successful bands such as the Arctic Monkeys
announced that it had reached a deal to acquire
http://www.muvee.com/website/mv_mobile.
and singers Sandi Thom and Lily Allen. In 2005
the company for $USD1.65 billion in Google’s
php
its parent company was bought by Rupert
stock.
Offers templates for making movies on
Murdoch’s News Corporation. The service has
http://video.google.com
mobiles.
gradually gained more popularity than similar
Google Video is a free Google service that Vlogs, Video Blogs
websites to achieve nearly 80% of visits to online
allows anyone to upload video clips to Google’s
http://www.freevlog.org/
social networking websites. The 100 millionth
web servers as well as make their own media
A step-by-step guide to setting up a videoblog
account was created on August 9, 2006. MySpace
available free of charge or through Google
for free.
reportedly attracts new registrations at a rate of
Video Store. Users can search and play videos
230,000 per day. (Adapted from Wikipedia entry.)
http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/
directly from Google Video, as well as download
http://Ogrish.com
A well-known vlog.
video files and remotely embed them on their
A website featuring uncensored events
webpages.
http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog/
including: beheading videos, execution images,
http://www.vimeo.com
This is Adrian Miles’ site – the superstar of
accident pictures, gruesome scenes from Iraq, etc.
A video-posting and sharing site started in
vlogging (at MIT). ‘This is a research blog about
http://www.outloud.tv/
2004. It claims to have 65,000+ registered users.
videoblogs, new media, and other stuff.’
Outloud.TV is a cross-media platform that
http://www.youthnoise.com/YN_home/ http://www.mefeedia.com/
connects the web to real TV broadcasts. Outloud.
A relative newcomer to the ranks of social A vlog directory.
TV produces TV broadcasts that are on demand,
networking sites, YouthNoise is aimed at young
100% automatic, from user-created content.
Forums, newsgroups, etc.
people involved in social change. The site’s
Outloud.TV pioneered community created
explanation of itself is as follows:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/
content since 2003. Any (registered) web-user
Across the globe, youths everywhere are
forumdisplay.php?f=61
can therefore influence the daily show by voting
making a difference. Combating issues
http://forums.dvdoctor.net
for clips.
without blinking an eye, they possess the
http://uk.dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/
http://one.revver.com/browse/
spirit and strength, along with the heartfelt
Entertainment___Arts/Audio_and_
Editor%27s+Picks
belief, that they can change the world. And
Visual_Equipment/Camcordershttp://
The Revver site rewards filmmakers by
change the world they do! YouthNoise gives
groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.video.
attaching advertisements at the end of their
these world-changers, these hope-givers,
digital?lnk=sg
productions and then shares revenues with them.
a voice, a place to connect, and a place to
As a Revver member, you gain access to the tools
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/
inspire – and be inspired. An activist haven,
you need to ‘super-distribute’ your video across
a socially conscious sanctuary, YouthNoise
Jerome Monahan is a freelance writer and regular contributor
the web. You can share your video however you
invites youths to write, to learn, to think, and
to MediaMag.
like – you can post it on your blog, your MySpace
to act. A virtual conference hall, playground,
page or even send it via email, instant message
On MoreMediaMag
coffee shop, and classroom, YouthNoise is
or peer to peer networks.Your video becomes
Visit MoreMediaMag for ‘Camcorder
where the difference begins.
a part of the Revver library, which means the
cultures: A timeline of news in the making’.
network of Revver syndicators can share your
video with their friends, who can then share it
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