What are the benefits of hosting your own videos? Do you think more big channels are going to start hosting own videos on their websites so that they do not have to give a cut to the networks?
Hosting own videos?
- Thread starter IntoxNitram
- Start date
It makes so you can better control and ensure the video stays up. Never know when something will be taken down.
Unless you're already an internet celebrity with millions of followers, you will hardly get any viewers at all by hosting your own videos. First of all, people are very reserved about watching videos on sites other than YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. Secondly, you will need to invest a lot in web hosting and SEO to even have a chance of competing with YouTube's videos in the search results.
You need bill gate's money in order to compete with youtube.
I think hosting your own videos is good for protecting your privacy more since you can setup your website where only a few people with a registered password protected account can view your videos.
While with YouTube, Dailymotion, and other video sites, they can make all videos public even, when you set them to Private/Friends-only, by making a settings change to their privacy policy.
If you have a lot of high quality videos like educational tutorial videos, self-made movies, and other high quality videos, you also may make more money setting up a pay per view video website like Lynda.com and Netflix since YouTube Partner program only pays more money when you got many thousands of views a day.
While with YouTube, Dailymotion, and other video sites, they can make all videos public even, when you set them to Private/Friends-only, by making a settings change to their privacy policy.
If you have a lot of high quality videos like educational tutorial videos, self-made movies, and other high quality videos, you also may make more money setting up a pay per view video website like Lynda.com and Netflix since YouTube Partner program only pays more money when you got many thousands of views a day.
There are some people who rather share their videos with a few close people like family, and friends rather than with everyone because of popularity.alakazam said:
I think people who grew up in more conservatives, and old fashion families rather share videos and photos with people they know rather than sharing with everyone.
More shy and insecure people probably want to only share their videos with people they trust, and are less likely to make fun of them.
not everyone can become popular though. A core following though would be nice.alakazam said:
I agree not everyone can be popular, and a core following would be nice. You can also make people join your forum or website to watch exclusive videos which are not available on other websites like YouTube.Demon_Skeith said:
Plus, you can charge money for videos on a website rather than letting people watch your videos for free on a website like YouTube, so you can earn back some of the money you spent on making videos by buying a better camera, a video editing software, and microphones which can be very expensive.
The only thing is that hosting videos and sharing them yourself takes massive amounts of storage space and bandwidth. I mean the videos recorded here are over 400 MB per video (and they're only a few minutes long). Plus most shared web hosts don't allow users to host video content simply because of how large and how bandwidth intensive they are.
And starting up your own video sharing site is easy to say, but they're expensive to run and maintain. Plus they require fairly advanced knowledge to set them up and run them. (You'd pretty well have to custom design everything. Especially if you want to incorporate some method of payment per video.)
So even though using youtube or whomever might be less control and more reliant on others... it also has some advantages (namely that you don't have to worry about costs and hardware issues).
Also, you can monetize your videos on youtube as well. (You can put ads on them via Adsense. Or you can make channels where each video has a cost. )
And starting up your own video sharing site is easy to say, but they're expensive to run and maintain. Plus they require fairly advanced knowledge to set them up and run them. (You'd pretty well have to custom design everything. Especially if you want to incorporate some method of payment per video.)
So even though using youtube or whomever might be less control and more reliant on others... it also has some advantages (namely that you don't have to worry about costs and hardware issues).
Also, you can monetize your videos on youtube as well. (You can put ads on them via Adsense. Or you can make channels where each video has a cost. )
Kind of crazy those are 400 MB where HD anime episodes at the most these days are 300 MB or less.
Indeed, it is crazy that video is 400MB when anime is 200-300MB in size.Demon_Skeith said:
I think there are video web host where it cost 20 or more dollars a year to host videos. The cheaper video host plans are usually good enough for many webmasters because most websites don't get a lot of traffic because it is very difficult to be popular online even when you are on popular sites like YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion because of the large numbers of videos online.
If you get fewer video views a month, hosting your video on your web hosting server where your website is hosted may work out if your shared, VPS, or dedicated web host have faster CPUs, more RAM, unlimited bandwidth, and lots of storage on their server.
JW Player is a good website video player for embedding your self-hosted videos. It is also possible to use the Windows Media Player, Quicktime, and Real Player web browser scripts/plug-in to show self-hosted videos, but the user need to have the Media Player Plug-in installed on their web browser to view it.
On newer web browsers with HTML5 support, you can use this HTML code
To embed video on a website from your video which is hosted on a website.
thanks for the JW Player link.
Well, popularity has its degrees of comparison. Some YouTubers are more popular than others, which - in their turn - are more popular than others etc.froggyboy604 said:
For example, compared to PewDiePie, who has 30 million subscribers, TobyGames (who has 6 million subs) is not as popular, but he is still more popular than Onision, who has 1 million subs. So we could say that Onision is not popular, but he is still more popular than someone with 10,000 subs etc.
Most YouTube video makers only have a hundred to thousands or less "real" subscribers, and a lot of the subscribers just subscribe, and hope you subscribe to them, part of a subscriber exchange, or they subscribe to you because they think they get more views for their videos by subscribing to many other YouTube members. Many of the subscribers may also be bots, spammers, and internet marketing staff who don't usually watch video.alakazam said:
There are also YouTube members who buy subscribers from Internet Marketing websites.