Comments on: How To Make Clickable Links In YouTube Videos – WVU #71

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:40:36 +0000

Has anyone found an alternative to bubbleply since it has gone down? I have been searching all over, and can’t find anything!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:35:20 +0000

Wow – what a great little tool… except they took their site down. Boo.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:13:04 +0000

Just fyi buubleply.com isn’t online anymore

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 20 May 2011 04:47:49 +0000

Juliette – try Veeple.com

By: Juliette

Juliette — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:12:59 +0000

I wonder, is there any way to add a clickable text link to video, one that is not hosted on youtube?

By: barry

barry — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:56:35 +0000

I want to add a clickable link to an annotation on a Youtube vid. I want it to go to another video on youtube….
I don’t care about an external link. Where do you insert a video url to make an annotation a live link???

I can’t find it anywhere.

Thanks

Barry

By: christina

christina — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:15:53 +0000

is there another site like Bubble ply?

By: christina

christina — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:13:31 +0000

is there another website like bubblePLY? It says it is no longer active. Thanks!

By: James Fleming

James Fleming — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:36:37 +0000

Dave, sometime ago you reviewed Livestream. Do you have any comparative information and Stickam? I’m trying to determine how to use these in my accounting and tax practice and which may be the best to use.

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:23:01 +0000

@Gadabout – iPhones, iPods and iPads do not support Flash. That means you can’t watch Flash video (flv files).

If you use MP4 files instead, you still have two issues:

1. You can’t embed your MP4′s as Flash, meaning you can’t use a Flash video player for them. I’m talking specifically for Apple devices here…you can embed MP4 as Flash and they’ll play fine in Flash supported devices.

2. If you embed them as QuickTime, iPhone, iPod and iPad user’s can watch them. But for the traditional web audience, roughly 30% of viewers will be prompted to download the QuickTime plugin so they can watch the videos. And roughly 100% of these viewers won’t bother.

The third option is to develop a custom script that senses where the viewer is coming from and delivers the appropriate version of the video to them.

By: Gadabout

Gadabout — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:42:25 +0000

I’m wondering Dave. Your course deals with creating FLV’s
which I’ve already put on my site ….

Just recently, my brother gave
me his old IPHONE G3.
I had the phone unlocked and love the phone.

Problem is … I noticed the Safari viewer doesn’t play
my web .flvs and that is very disconcerting. It’s making
me rethink and maybe change my flvs and put up
MP4s on my site so that both mac and pc viewers can
see my videos as my vids pop up on the viewable
area of my sites ….

What is your thoughts on this …?

The controversy … FLV vs MP4 … or maybe
Quicktime

By: pete

pete — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:29:48 +0000

Not sure why anyone would want to use a YouTube video on their site anyway?

Embedding your own video is easy, looks professional, you have total control and you can easily add a link to it.

You can add external links to YT videos, but you need to be part of the producer rewards scheme and pay for advertising (Or something like that!).

Pete

By: Sean Breslin

Sean Breslin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:03:32 +0000

Interesting Dave… Not sure I’d use that yet though?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:48:31 +0000

@Duncan – The club hosting wouldn’t work for this because the videos are private…the only way people can seen them is if you, the owner, embed them on your site. In other words, there are no “public links” to them like with YouTube, Vimeo, etc., which you need for this service.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:05:27 +0000

Thanks Dave for another great tip! As always it is much appreciated.

By: CareHomeMarketingExpert

CareHomeMarketingExpert — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:56:28 +0000

Hi Dave,

In response to Duncans comment above i’ve just bought a tool called Easy Video Player which is a player for flash files that allows you to not only re-direct videos at the end, but also embed html such as paypal buy buttons and aweber opt in forms. It seems to work really well.

It also connects directly with amazon s3 to make uploading files really easy & has a fully analytics package with the pro version that tracks video views and purchases. It even tracks upsells.

It costs $127 for a lifetime license + about $47 if you want the pro upgrade. I’m really pleased with it. If you want to take a look you’ll find it at http://www.easyvideoplayer.com.

Simon

By: Todd Herman

Todd Herman — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:49:03 +0000

Dave you’ve always got great stuff!

Just a heads up… BubblePly only works on Internet explorer. I tried to use it before and finally contacted support after it wouldn’t work… and they gave me the 411.

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:45:39 +0000

Thanks Dave,,, you hit a home run again. I do value your information
Best Wishes
Ted

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:11:01 +0000

Your breadth of knowledge concerning the emergence and application of video applications is unbelievable.

Can we obtain links for the WVU members videos. The reason for my questions is that I have been asked to contribute articles for sites in my business area and I would like to include a video segment within those articles.

I would be of significant benefit if I could place links with the video to click back to my site. I prefer WVU player because it is cleaner then utube.

Best regards,
Duncan

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:28:24 +0000

@Isabelle – It should work with any video sharing site, not just YouTube. I used YouTube as an example because it’s the most popular.

By: Isabelle

Isabelle — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:26:04 +0000

Dave,
Thanks for sharing BubblePly. Great tool.
Does it work only with Youtube Videos or can I use BubblePly to videos stored via Vimeo as well?

By: brooks

brooks — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:24:34 +0000

Great video Dave. Thanks for putting it together. Too bad that one can’t use it on YouTube’s site – that would’ve been a great application and use.

Brooks.