YouTube builds network of content providers

NEW YORK (AFP) – YouTube, the video social-networking website owned by Google, is building a vast network of content providers, a company spokesman told AFP.

YouTube has concluded “more than 1,000 partnerships” with content providers both big and small, YouTube spokesman David Song said late Friday, confirming a New York Times report.

 

Read more at Yahoo News

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eBay is good place to find services. I found many sell web hosting on ebay. Now only unlimited space web hosting plans sells on ebay as most don’t need any limit. Most sellers don’t know what is unlimited, one auction says “unlimited or 5 GB”

If you are looking for getting your script installed, you can check ebay, see the auction

YouTube Clone Script Installation

YouTube Clone Pays Cash for Clips

Metacafe uses a team of over 100,000 volunteer reviewers to pick the cream of the crop from millions of user-submitted videos. All videos must be owned by the submitter, with everyone involved in the video signing a consent form prior to an accepted video being posted.Once the submission process is complete videos are opened to the public, generating revenue with either post-roll or pre-roll advertisements. After a video has received 20,000 views, a mark which over 30 percent of Metacafe videos achieve, the submitter receives $5 in cash per 1,000 views. Said Arik Czerniak, CEO and co-founder of Metacafe:

 People who watch video on the web are hungry for good content, and they are ready to consume a lot of it. You could put your video on YouTube and get a lot of views, but you have to actively market yourself in order to be heard over all the noise. Or, you could post it to Metacafe where we have developed a process that lets the best videos get played immediately so they can start earning you real money.

Metacafe, which recently relocated from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Palo Alto, says that it paid a user $23,000 after his video was viewed 4.5 million times. Metacafe is also friendly to producers in that it doesn’t require exclusive rights in order for a video to be profitable. Users can upload videos to Metacafe and still retain original rights to the video, allowing them to publish videos in other formats or even on other online video sites.

Metacafe currently boasts over 1 million visitors per day, with about 15 million daily videos played across the site. YouTube, by comparison, facilitates over 100 million daily video views. But even with a smaller audience, analysts feel that Metacafe’s format give the site enormous growth potential.

Metacafe’s model is a powerful way of persuading users to publish on one site rather than the other, said Joe Laszlo, a senior analyst at JupiterResearch, Since there are so many producers of video content right now, competition is bound to heat up.

Yahoo launches Youtube Clone

The trend continues, the biggies are finally back with copying successful startups! Last month AOL came up it’s own little Youtube, what they called the AOL Uncut.

And earlier this month Yahoo followed suit, when they launched Yahoo! Videos, a silent launch, but what I believe is Yahoo’s answer to Google Videos and it’s strategy to get the 13 million users that Youtube, gets every month!

Yahoo! Video is a replacement to the old Video Search Engine that indexed videos from other search sites, but this brand new Yahoo! Video concentrated on User-Uploaded Videos, just like Youtube! The site is a perfect YouTube clone, complete with tagging, rating, user submissions and favorites, but offer more features than primary rival Google Video, yet skipping much of the complexity of YouTube.

Overall, though, the service is clean and impressive and I think it will fare better than other services which have tried to nose in on the YouTube/Google space. You can read more about the launch at the Yahoo! Search Blog.

So Finally the scores have settled (or maybe atleast tried), the management at Yahoo finally summoned it’s employees and said “Well, we need you to create a site to get us up to the 13 million visitors that YouTube eats every month”.

The only company that is left behind in this plagiarising spree is Microsoft, that stays back with it’s live.com exploring unexplored arenas.

I have clearly heard many calling Youtube, a flickr clone! But still Youtube has got a distinct advantage though – the user base. Online users dont surf 10 different video sites for a particular video…youtube has got this user externality where many more videos are uploaded on youtube than any other (i mean yahoo video search has existed for a while too). In my opinion yahoo or AOL made the blunder by not buying youtube and its legion of users, though they still have the option to do it in the future if their video sites do not take off.

What do you think could be Youtube’s future ? Especially after they lost AOL and Yahoo! Two of the biggest potential buyers ? They keep speaking of some business plan that they are going to implement ? But When ? IMO, if this doesn’t happen fast, Youtube wouldn’t last long!

Your views ?

Starting Your Own Video Sharing Site

Found a script that allows you to start your own video sharing web site like YouTube.

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vShare YouTube Clone is a PHP, MySQL based script.