Comments on: How I Got Booted Off a Video Sharing Site Without Warning

By: Andrea Borman

Andrea Borman — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:55:22 +0000

I see so you have got your videos stored on a file on your computer. So in case the video site deletes them you have them saved. Then you can just open a new account some where else. I host my blogs on my own domain.But are there any video sharing sites that let you buy a domain,like Blogger or wordpress does?

By: Gerry Oginski

Gerry Oginski — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:33:30 +0000

Hi Andrea,
I host them privately. I upload to my server and then to the video sharing sites.

By: Andrea Borman.

Andrea Borman. — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:07:28 +0000

I had the same experience Viddler which is another free video sharing site deleted my account,channel and videos without even emailing me to tell me first. I found out only 3 days ago when I tried to log in but could not. where do you host your videos now?

By: Gerry Oginski

Gerry Oginski — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:53:43 +0000

Hi Andy,
You’re welcome!
How about sharing some of your knowledge with our group here in the Lawyers Video Studio with a guest post! Would love to have you share with us. Let me know.

Best regards,

Gerry

By: Andy Percival

Andy Percival — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:58:42 +0000

Hi Gerry, After working hard to get some videos out there for Accountants in Kettering in the UK. I received exactly the same message as you. Very disappointed, and like you frustrated with Dailymotion. I have only uploaded 15 videos in total. I may try some of the alternatives mentioned here. Thank you for the blog and information
Andy

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:34:22 +0000

Myths debunked:

“My video needs to be on a social media site to be indexed in search engines”

No, your video doesn’t need to be on a social media site to be indexed in major search engines – you can do this yourself with a simple Video Sitemap hosted on your own server.

“Tubemogul and Vidmetrix are the only authority who can track video views, downloads, etc.”

Video hits, views, downloads, etc can be measured using Google analytics.

3rd party services/product who can make the sudden choice to boot you without explanation should not be relied on, obviously.

By: Gerry Oginski

Gerry Oginski — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:26:59 +0000

Amazon S3 is a great way to host your videos. Very inexpensive and they have TONS of storage.

By: Svein

Svein — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:37:57 +0000

I thought I was the only one…

Got the same treatment from blip.tv a couple of years ago – they do not allow any form of marketing/advertisement stuff.

I have never seen this with YouTube, however, I am now leaning towards what has been mentioned above that it is better to host it yourself, and just use the free sites for teasers and duplicate content.

S3 was mentioned. Any other good suggestions for selfhosting? Suddenly becoming popular could be very expensive if you pay for each GB…

By: mantic59

mantic59 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:43:38 +0000

One partial solution to this problem is to syndicate to more than one site. I use Tubemogul to distribute my videos to eight different video sites (they currently support 26 video sharing sites). Its almost trivially easy: upload, select which sites to syndicate to, and off you go. They even keep track of some of the statistics of your video so you can get an idea where the video is most popular. Their base membership is free and they have paid accounts with more features. There are other syndication sites but I believe Tubemogul is the biggest (I’m not affiliated with them, just a satisfied user).

By: Richmond Virgina Accident Injury Lawyer

Richmond Virgina Accident Injury Lawyer — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:51:27 +0000

I had a similar thing happen with Tubemogul when I first started uploading videos there. For a reason that was never fully explained to me, my account was suspended. I talked to a customer service representative and he did not know why it happened. I just made another account and have had no further problems.