List of Video Sharing Social Sites

I put this article together because my ceriousity allowed me to ask this question and research the answer. I looked all around the internet in search of good video sharing social sites and this is what I found. I hope you enjoy them as I have.

VIDEO SHARING SOCIAL SITES

1. YouTube.com - YouTube, LLC is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion dollars, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by members of the public, although media organizations including CBS and the BBC offer some of their material via the site.

2. Vimeo- is a video-centric social network site (owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp) which launched in November 2004. The site supports embedding, sharing, video storage, and allows user-commenting on each video page. Users must register to upload content. Registered users may also create a profile and upload small user pictures as their avatars, comment and “like” videos.

3. AniBOOM- is a cross-media animation website offering a collection of short animations and cartoon, animation tools (like ShapeShifter), and competitions. Registered users can submit animated movies, which are then categorized according to type. Users are able to evaluate videos by giving them a number of “bombs” and by posting comments. AniBOOM also offers option to email the video to a friend, to post to a blog or social network profile page, or add to favorites. Users are given “BoomZones”, or profile pages, in which to showcase their videos.

4. Atom.com- (formerly AtomFilms) is an award-winning broadband entertainment network offering original short subject films, animations, and series by independent creators. The company was founded in 1998 in Seattle by Mika Salmi.

5. FameCast- is a social network website serving both bands seeking increased exposure and music fans looking for new independent artists. Once per month the site hosts a contest in which the community votes for their favorite artists in six different music genres. The winners of each category are featured in SPIN magazine and advance to the next contest level and have a chance to win cash. Headquarters in Austin, Texas, U.S. (2006)

6.http://www.liveleak.com/- is a video sharing website that lets users post and share videos. Liveleak places emphasis on current events, politics and reality-based footage such as war scenes from various parts of the world. The site went live on 31 October 2006. Founded by the team responsible for Ogrish.com, it aims to take reality footage, politics, and world events and combine them with the power of citizen journalism. The site came to prominence in 2007 following the unauthorized filming and leaking of the execution of Saddam Hussein, and was referred to by White House Press Secretary Tony Snow and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

7. Flickr Video- is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. As of November 2008[update], it claims to host more than 3 billion images. Launched on February 2004.

8. http://photobucket.com/- is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. It was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures. It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007.

9. Twango is an online media sharing site that supports multiple file types such as photos, video, audio, and documents. It provides users a means of repurposing their media, including sharing, editing, organizing and categorizing. In addition, Twango saves all the original media and its metadata (this includes, but is not limited to, IPTC and Exif). Non-members are free to browse the site, while members can upload media of their own. Sign up for a basic account is free, and provides 250 megabytes of upload bandwidth a month. Twango was acquired by Nokia in July 2007 and has since been rebranded as the Share on Ovi service.

10. BGVIP.TV [Translated: English]- is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. The website contains a variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos.

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