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Wildscreen.TV Offers 100% Ad Revenue to Users
Wildscreen is a new video site hoping to combine quality content with a social media network. With a focus on quality instead of quantity, Wildscreen distances itself from the YouTube crowd by offering a space in which users can upload as much content as they want, with customized and branded channels.

Aimed at filmmakers, Wildscreen is also hoping to entice users in with the offering of full ownership of the channel, including 100% of the ad revenue going directly to that operator of the video channel. With no upload limitations or revenue splits, wilidscreen’s offering is just different enough to likely catch someone’s attention, as individuals are being presented with a number of experimental alternatives to the monetization of their online video content.

More on this is here

Pandora.TV, South Korea’s largest user generated video site, is expanding into new markets with additional language support and features.

Pandora.TV launched in 2004 and has grown to become the “YouTube of Korea,” ranking as the countries 24th most popular site according to Alexa with 20 million monthly unique visitors, 2.5 billion monthly page views with 2.5 million hosted videos. Notably the company has taken $16 million over two rounds from Altos Ventures and DCM, said to be the largest foreign investment made in a Korean internet startup.

Pandora.TV offers a mix of YouTube style videos and Live streaming. Like YouTube, videos can be embedded, voted upon and comments left on each page. A key selling point is unlimited video storage.

As of today Pandora.TV is now available in English, Chinese, Japanese as well as its native Korean. New features rolled out with the international expansion include:
- HD quality video playback (H.264 codec support)
- multiple video upload (up to 5 files simultaneously)
- unlimited category creation
- site widgets.

Pandora.TV has also claimed cross-browser support as a new feature, however the Live Streaming service requires a download to view and stream that is only available to Windows users.

From techcrunch here

Daily Motion has begun offering some HD videos on its video sharing website. There’s not much there right now, but its sure to grow. You’ll need a fast internet connection to view it though.

Others offering HD include Veoh and Hulu

Auvica has released version 2.0 of their CMS for media contents osTube – a framework for creating websites similar to YouTube. Its an entire customizable UGC website builder that handles video, photos and audio. It includes full social networking profiles and also e-commerce, letting people sell their electronic content.

Whats different to other white label UGC creator products i’ve mentioned before is that this is a downloadable server app, in PHP, that you can customize and modify without limitations. Anyone with developer resources seeking to create a UGC based community website really should take this seriously - the barriers are coming donw fast.

Here is their demo.

It appears to be built in PHP, which should make it easily extensible and scalable.

osTube comes with these standard features:
* Embedded Media Player
* Watermark in Media Player
* Extensive statistics
* Different Admin Rights
* Blog Integrated Blog
* Shoutbox on the Home
* User Guest books
* Two brand new templates
* Customizable Media Player
* Home and community page via drag-drop (Ajax)
* Social Bookmarking
* RSS feeds
* News Editorial Sections

osTube comes in two flavors:
- FREE Community Edition
- Enterprise Edition

The Enterprise edition also includes:
* Payment-solution, mobile up/download
* Live-streaming, HDTV, IPTV-scenarios
* Online-marketing and paid content
* Personal support and account manager
* Server-cluster-solution incl. hosting, monitoring, administration, and back-up
* No limitations concerning source modification or extension

Photo sharing website Flickr is to use online photo editing tool Picnik to add photo editing capabilities to it stock offering.

Developers of online video converter Movavi just released Engine SDK for Flash Video, that enables you to build video sharing web-site with 30 lines of code and it’ll be more stable than a mountain. Now you able to allow users of your site to upload any video and share it with others in flv format and it’ll cost you just $300!

via digg here

Mobile is def the way to go, who can ignore it…

Video sharing service veeker Raised $2.5 Million in an initial round last week. San Francisco-based Veeker, a service for sharing videos over mobile phones, received $2.5 million in an initial round from Labrador Ventures, reports NewTeeVee. The company, which launched in beta a year ago, has expanded beyond its original person-to-person mobile video messaging focus. Following a trend, the service is now also being pitched as a citizen journalism tool; on example: a recent deal with NBC to get users to submit their own videos to local NBC affiliates.

Britons spend an average of 5.8 hours a month on social networking sites — nearly twice that of any other European country
via Jonathan Richards (Times Online)

Britons are the ’social networking’ champions of Europe, displaying a far greater appetite for websites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo than fellow citizens on the continent. British internet users spent an average of 5.8 hours a month - about a 11 minutes a day - on such sites, in comparison with their nearest rivals the Germans, who spent 3.1 hours a month (6 minutes a day), according to research. The French, Spanish, and Italians all spend less than four minutes a day making ‘friend requests’ and ‘poking’ one another - the social networking equivalent of saying hello, the figures, from comScore, suggest.

More than three in four regular internet users in Britain - just under 25 million people - are now a member of a social networking site, and make an average of 23.3 visits to their ‘profile page’ a month.

The figures are skewed by those visit the sites most regularly, however. ‘Heavy users’ spend an average of 22.1 hours a month on their pages - visiting them more than 70 times - despite accounting for less than a fifth of the overall number.
By comparison ‘light users’ - who make up about a half of the total - spend just 18 minutes, presenting a challenge for marketers keen to exploit the amount of personal data collected by such networks and target new customers.

“The big question for companies at the moment is how can they use applications that are developed for social networking sites like Facebook for advertising purposes,” Rebecca Jennings, an analyst with Forrester, said.

Social networking sites allow members to build and interact with large groups of friends, as well as share content - including photos, videos and music - with one another. According to comScore, Bebo - a site for younger users - is now the most popular social network in Britain, with 10.7 million visitors, followed by MySpace, with 10.2 million. Facebook, despite more than tripling its reach in the past 6 months - from 2.7 million to 9 million - is in third place.

I saw this on Techcrunch UK, by Mike Butcher

UK-based edocr opens its doors officially today allowing anyone to upload documents. There are already US startups trying to become the ‘YouTube for documents’, notably Scribd and Docstoc and edocr does something similar, but with a twist.

Coming out of Manchester, edocr lets you upload your document and then allow people to download, share or embed it via a Flash interface on any website. It’s aimed at two types of users: publishers of documents and researchers. The twist is that while competitor sites tend to allow any old document to go up, edocr is going to just focus on any .doc or .pdf. So no spreadsheets or PowerPoints / presentations. This could mean they keep the ‘pool’ of documents relatively untainted by those terrible PP presentations.

Easily publishing documents online remains a problem more common than you’d think. You can spend a lot of time online looking for formal documents such as standard NDAs, official documents, you name it. Businesses spend a lot of time and money producing these documents, yet they barely register on search engines (blogs, are better at that!) and there is rarely a simple way for a reader to provide feedback on a document. So why isn’t there one ‘go-to’ site for documents which can be shared, searched, ranked and commented on?

That’s where these document sharing sites come in. As more documents are added by users the documents get ranked, commented on and shared on other sites. Because of this ‘crowd’ effect around the documents, the owners and publishers of the originals get invaluable feedback of their content, while providing a wealth of useful documents for any visitor. On edocr you can comment on a document as if it was a blog post, and even send it to Digg.

Interestingly, some US-based firms are already using edocr, such as Ariba. In the lead-up to this launch edocr, has for instance, been uploading as many documents as it can find about documents about EIPP (e-invoicing). Whatever turns you on I guess…

Future plans include special interest groups and CEO Manoj Ranaweera tells me the site should be able to build connectors to Opentext’s ECM packages, so that public facing documents can be published straight on to edocr.

Since launching 8 months ago, Scribd has raise $3.5 million from Redpoint Ventures. Meanwhile Docstoc, currently in private beta is going to be geared toward professions.

It remains to be seen how edocr - currently 100% self-funded but with a pretty experienced team - will do, but I don’t see why they shouldn’t have a very good chance in this arena.

Blinx the video search engine, has launched their advertising program to allow publishers to earn revenue on their uploads. Much like AdSense for YouTube, which was revealed earlier this week, Blinkx’s solution matches ads contextually with videos. Ads are displayed either in a transparent window at the bottom of the video screen, or in a banner that sits on top of it. We first learned of Blinkx’s program earlier this summer.

In addition to Google/YouTube, Blinkx joins many other companies that offer publishers a way to earn money from video. VideoEgg, AdBrite, and BrightRoll all offer similar programs, with dozens of other companies also competing for a share of the quickly growing video advertising market.

See Also: 10 Online Video Ad Competitors Compared

via Mashable