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Video matters But which hosting service to use?

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Re: Video matters But which hosting service to use?

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Post by imwilsonxu »

Thanks for sharing. Since youtube is blocked in China(mainland), I suggest using video service like Youku and Tudou, which should support high quality video, too.

Since I've been working in an angel investment company in China, after dealing with a lot of startupers, I found most of them haven't realized how big huge potential promption value video.

Re: Video matters But which hosting service to use?

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Post by yawl »

imwilsonxu wrote: post #3

Thanks for sharing. Since youtube is blocked in China(mainland), I suggest using video service like Youku and Tudou, which should support high quality video, too. Since I've been working in an angel investment company in China, after dealing with a lot of startupers, I found most of them haven't realized how big huge potential promption value video.

Thanks for the info. We have tried Youku and Tudou on https://railscats-china.com but the embedding quality is bad. Will see whether there are plus account on those services.

Re: Video matters But which hosting service to use?

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Post by poshboytl »

paulyan wrote: post #2

Wistia sounds very interesting. What's the point of knowing how audience is watching? What are the metrics you want to measure?

You might be interesting in when your users quit from the video. That can help you optimize the video or your product. And it aslo can give where the audiences from.

Re: Video matters But which hosting service to use?

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Post by poshboytl »

imwilsonxu wrote: post #3

Thanks for sharing. Since youtube is blocked in China(mainland), I suggest using video service like Youku and Tudou, which should support high quality video, too. Since I've been working in an angel investment company in China, after dealing with a lot of startupers, I found most of them haven't realized how big huge potential promption value video.

I think advertisement is still a problem. You might not want your users watch the other AD. :p

Re: Video matters But which hosting service to use?

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Post by imwilsonxu »

poshboytl wrote: post #6
imwilsonxu wrote: post #3

Thanks for sharing. Since youtube is blocked in China(mainland), I suggest using video service like Youku and Tudou, which should support high quality video, too. Since I've been working in an angel investment company in China, after dealing with a lot of startupers, I found most of them haven't realized how big huge potential promption value video.

I think advertisement is still a problem. You might not want your users watch the other AD. :p

exactly, doesn't youtube have AD?

Re: Video matters But which hosting service to use?

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Post by poshboytl »

imwilsonxu wrote: post #7
poshboytl wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think advertisement is still a problem. You might not want your users watch the other AD. :p

exactly, doesn't youtube have AD?

I think Youtube doesn't have AD for embed player by default at least for now. :)

Re: Video matters But which hosting service to use?

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Post by yehanyin »

knwang wrote: post #9

Youtube also has the advantage of discoverable. The downside is that you don't "own" the comments. If someone puts in a bad comment everyone else will see. I'll give SublimeVideo a look.. seems interesting

SublimeVideo is what RailsCasts using now. So you should be very familiar with how it works, :)
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