What you need to know about video product distribution
We are witnessing an explosion in Internet video. If you have
never created a video product for sale on the Internet, trying your hand
at a few simple viral videos for free distribution is a great way to
learn skills that add value to your paid videos as you become better at
using the tools available for creating and distributing video content
over the Internet.
Viral video is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful
marketing tools for boosting traffic to your web site. When you upload
your video to YouTube, for instance, you simply need to copy the code
that YouTube gives you and paste it into a new post on your blog. To
distribute your video as a podcast, you only need to attach an RSS feed
to it. As soon as you do that, your video product is ready to reach a
potential audience of millions on the Worldwide Web.
Video podcasting is going to have an even greater impact on the
Internet than audio podcasting has had. Don't let the terminology throw
you: Video Podcasting involves nothing more complicated than copying and
pasting code into your web site or blog to make a video clip available
on the Internet for other people to view. With the tools available
today, it has become very easy and inexpensive to create and distribute
video products.
The ease with which a video product can be uploaded to video
sharing sites like YouTube and Google Video is bringing about an
explosion in Internet video. YouTube started as a site where individuals
could share home videos with friends and family members. And although
the bulk of the video content on YouTube continues to be home videos
produced by amateurs, the site is beginning to attract professional
content producers and large media companies. YouTube recently entered
into a partnership with the BBC, for example, which illustrates how
professional video content is beginning to move online.
How to distribute your video product on the Internet
Once you have created, captured, and uploaded your video to an Internet
site, it's easy to distribute your video content over the Internet.
(Technically, a video product does not become a "podcast" until it has
an RSS feed attached to it.) Almost all blogging software has built-in
RSS capability, which is the easiest way to distribute a video product
over the Internet.
Once you post your content online, simply copy the "embed" code given by
YouTube, Google Video, or any of the other popular video sharing sites,
and paste that into a new post on your blog. You can then submit your
RSS feed to any of the video broadcast sites, and your video is on the
Internet. By using a free service like FeedBurner, you make it easier
for people to find you and to remember you. Whenever you post a new
video on your blog, FeedBurner updates your RSS feed and alerts all the
video distribution channels, as well as your blog's subscribers.
To Your Success
Perzina Munroe
http://www.babydarest.com
http://www.12path.com/HBC/