Interviews with Digital Media Thought Leaders
blip.tv Compared to YouTube
Podcast Audio | Posted by Phil Leigh on May 31, 2008
If you would like to learn how to use a hosted service for your Internet video that is available at no charge, and avoids using a high-profile branded player like YouTube’s, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Mike Hudack who is the Co-Founder of blip.tv. His company is a lot like YouTube except they do not force you to use a player that has obvious third-party branding like the prominent logo YouTube uses in the lower right of the player frame. As a result, the blip.tv player looks like it “belongs” on your website. Similar to YouTube, blip.tv will host your video files, convert them to formats suitable for streaming, and deliver them over their own CDN. However, unlike YouTube blip.tv provides more detailed statistics on viewership, enables video podcasting, and permits you to opt-into an ad-supported business model whereby you share 50% of the ad revenue they generate from your content.
Phil’s Take. Blip.tv looks like a great service especially for those who want to display video on their own websites but avoid having the videos look like they were merely imported from YouTube. However, if you are presently hosting your own videos then switching to blip.tv requires that you turn all of that over to them. This can be a problem for a company like Inside Digital Media that has almost five years of videos in its archive.
Categories: Podcast Audio
Tags: Blip.tv, digital media, Internet video, Mike Hudack, Phil Leigh, Video Player, YouTube
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