John Lacey
Tao of Tubing
The previous post still stands: YouTube Owns My Soul. I mean, how could it not? This is the second blog post about it in as many days. Even when I’m not watching videos, I’m thinking about them. Even when I’m not commenting on videos, I’m talking to people who make them via MSN and Skype. Indeed the first thing I encountered on waking this morning was a notification from Twitter that one very celebrated YouTuber had decided to follow my updates. (Indeed not even a YouTuber that I happen to watch. I am still a little confused and bewildered about that.)
I’m trying hard not to resist the fact that this video sharing site has had such a profound influence on my experience of both the internet and life more generally.
I received a comment on my most recent video from an Australian user lamenting that Australians only got fifty views at most on their videos anyway.
I confess I was more surprised by my own response to the comment than the comment itself; I mean who hasn’t felt some degree of frustration that perhaps their work isn’t well received, or widely enough received?
JohnOfJordan
I’m not by any stretch of the imagination the most popular Australian on youtube, but I still manage to get more than that. I know it’s frustrating. But you just have to chip away at it and see what happens. And, hopefully, ultimately you make something better than views; you make friends.
That, truthfully, is surely what it is really about. It is about interaction. It is about humanity. It is about friendship.
Hi,
Video sharing is all the rage those days. We all want to share our videos, to share our passions and the things we like. There are so many sites around to publish our videos on the web that it is sometimes hard to make a choice. We know some of them like YouTube, Revver or Dailymotion, but there are so many others competing to be the number one, or targeting a specific audience, whether geographically (China, Japan, Turkey…), by language (German, Arabic, French…) or for the kind of content they enable to publish (cooking, planes, extreme sports…).
I have compiled a growing list of already 700 video sharing sites, video search engines, and video download sites that you can check at http://www.ilikesharingvideos.com
For each of them, you will get useful information such as their history, the country from which most of their visitors come, their niche, their rank, their latest news…
This site offers some other interesting features, like a forum about online videos, how to make money with your videos, how to create your own YouTube site, etc.
So if you are interested in video sharing or online video marketing, give an eye to this site, it worths it.
Cheers