Video upstart Veoh lets you publish to other UGC sites
Wow, this is a concept I was talking over with Marc Lyne about a month ago. All these UGC sites work as silos of information, and if you wanna play in more than one you have to create multiple user profiles, repeating all the same old stuff about yourself, then you have to upload all your stuff multiple times (to eahc of their servers). Now Veoh soubds as though they let you upload once to them, then they share it with the others. Izimi should go one better, so you dont evert have to uplkoad your stuff at all if you dont want to. So you can create just a light profile (bare minimum) on the sites you want to play in, but then just make links back to your Izimi stuff which is sitting right there on your own box (so you never have to sit there and wait for uploads). Anyway, here is the Veoh story….
Online video startup Veoh is revving its product tonight, borrowing liberally from its competition. It’ll be hard to stand out from the crowd by becoming more like the crowd, but Veoh’s looking for a boost to take it out of the middle of the online video pack.The Veoh service will now include a Brightcove2-style customizable player, 50-50 advertising splits for video publishers a la Revver3 (and others), and P2P feed-catching like the Democracy player4. The site will be down starting at 5 p.m. to push the new features.
Lest the comparison to its competitors be too subtle, Veoh is also adding the option to publish any video to YouTube, Google, and MySpace when it’s uploaded to Veoh. “Publishers are not ready to commit to any one service, so we’re giving them what they want,” said Veoh CEO Dmitry Shapiro in an interview today.
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