Blip.Tv - An excellent alternative to YouTube

YouTube has certainly set the gold standard in online video sharing. However, there is another video sharing service called Blip.TV which goes above and

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beyond what YouTube offers and is an excellent choice for video bloggers to upload their videos.

blip.tv is the world’s leading videoblogging and podcasting service. PC World calls them  ‘online video done right,’ and Tech Crunch calls them ‘a great platform for videobloggers. Here are some of the killer features of Blip.tv compared to YouTube.

 

 More File Formats supportedYouTube allows users to upload only in avi, mov or mpeg formats. blip.tv allows many more file formats including the immensely popular Flash Format producing excellent results.  No Lmit on duration or video file size: YouTube imposes a 10 minute or 100 MB file limit. blip.tv has no such limit. In addition, blip.tv has more playback options for viewers - the user can chose to view videos in flash or in the original format in which the video was uplaoded. Also, blip.tv will automatically syndicate your videos to many other websites, and you can choose to place midroll, postroll, adjacent, and overlay advertisements in your uploads. Additionally, you can track your shows’ statistics quite closely and allow users to download your videos.

Here is an example of a high quality blip.tv video which shows how to use the vPIP tool which allows authors to design how their videos are viewed.

 Enjoy!

 

 

 

Why Just YouTube? - Upload Videos to Mulitple Sites in One Shot

YouTube’s market share of the video blogging arena is about 64%. However, by limiting yourself to YouTube only, you might be missing an opportunity to expose your vidoes to the remainder of the market, which is quite a significant number (36%).

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So share your videos on the smaller video blogging sites with lesser content. This is a great strategy to get listed in the top search results and distinguish yourself from the clutter. I know, uploading videos to multiple sites takes time - but fortunately, TubeMogul has the ultimate solution for you.

TubeMogul allows you to upload your video to all Popular video sharing sites in just one click (sites like Blip.Tv, Google Video, Facebook, MySpace, Metcalfe etc).

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 TubeMogul is a free service that provides a single point for deploying uploads to the top video sharing sites, and powerful analytics on who, what, and how videos are being viewed. TubeMogul adds the analytics component to their Universal Video Uploader.

So try out TubeMogul - the king of Video Sharing on the Internet. It gets a Two Thumbs up from TakeOneFlix!

 

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