Comments on: Hosting your video is not always the best choice http://steveouting.com/2008/03/18/hosting-your-video-is-not-always-the-best-choice/ Journalist, consultant, entrepreneur ... Musings on digital media, Web 2.0/3.0, & news in the Internet era Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:51:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Christian Smith http://steveouting.com/2008/03/18/hosting-your-video-is-not-always-the-best-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-133036 Christian Smith Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:13:28 +0000 http://growingyournewswebsite.com/2008/03/18/hosting-your-video-is-not-always-the-best-choice/#comment-133036 "Videos hosted on your own website don’t get nearly the exposure and distribution they’ll get when posted on Google-owned Youtube. When an online user spots your video on Youtube, they’ll be able to grab the “embed code” and place the video on their blog, website, social network page, etc. No, that’s not stealing your copyrighted content; you want them to do that, so their readers will see your content and brand and click through to your site. This is the Distributed Web strategy, and it’s smart." ~I definitely agree with this. Once you have placed your video on Youtube, people could get the embeded code and use it. You can't be mad with that, it was your choice to place it there. By this way, they could also help you be exposed to many people. And you should thank them for that. Christian Smith Webmaster “Videos hosted on your own website don’t get nearly the exposure and distribution they’ll get when posted on Google-owned Youtube. When an online user spots your video on Youtube, they’ll be able to grab the “embed code” and place the video on their blog, website, social network page, etc. No, that’s not stealing your copyrighted content; you want them to do that, so their readers will see your content and brand and click through to your site. This is the Distributed Web strategy, and it’s smart.”

~I definitely agree with this. Once you have placed your video on Youtube, people could get the embeded code and use it. You can’t be mad with that, it was your choice to place it there. By this way, they could also help you be exposed to many people. And you should thank them for that.

Christian Smith
Webmaster

]]> By: Clint Wilde http://steveouting.com/2008/03/18/hosting-your-video-is-not-always-the-best-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-29923 Clint Wilde Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:28:40 +0000 http://growingyournewswebsite.com/2008/03/18/hosting-your-video-is-not-always-the-best-choice/#comment-29923 Thanks for the info. I need to convince a client that it is better to host on youtube rather then their own site and your info was helpful. Thanks for the info. I need to convince a client that it is better to host on youtube rather then their own site and your info was helpful.

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