I’ve long warned entrepreneurs about the dangers of relying on video sharing sites for their marketing efforts.\u00a0 Very few…if any…video sharing sites have managed to turn a profit to date.\u00a0 And with more money going out than coming in, it’s just a matter of math (and time) before changes occur.\u00a0 Changes that can make your videos disappear…literally…overnight.<\/p>\n
I’ve experienced this first hand.<\/p>\n
Last December, the free service I was using to host my video podcast sent out an email saying they were closing their doors in 5 days.\u00a0 That meant me (and many other people) had just 5 days to move our video podcasts elsewhere or have the lights go out on our audience.\u00a0 There was no prior warning.\u00a0 None.\u00a0 Just an unexpected email saying “we’re out of money and you have 5 days”.<\/p>\n
Around the same time, two giants in the video sharing site world, Google Video<\/strong> and AOL Video<\/strong> announced that they would stop accepting new video uploads (AOL has already done this, Google Video will stop accepting uploads in a few months).<\/p>\n And now just yesterday, another big player in the video sharing world, Veoh<\/strong>, announced major shake-ups within their company.\u00a0 They are replacing their CEO and reducing their staff by 36%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Now, Veoh did put a positive spin on this shake-up saying among other things “every single quarter is a record quarter” and “we are just tightening our belts”.\u00a0 But still, a 36% reduction in staff is a bit ominous…no matter how you spin it.<\/p>\n Expect more announcements like this…from more popular video sharing sites…over the coming year.\u00a0 How exactly end-user’s like you or me will be effected I can’t say.\u00a0 But one thing is clear; there will be change.\u00a0 Let’s just hope millions of user’s don’t get an unexpected “5 day” message like I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve long warned entrepreneurs about the dangers of relying on video sharing sites for their marketing efforts.\u00a0 Very few…if any…video sharing sites have managed to turn a profit to date.\u00a0 And with more money going out than coming in, it’s just a matter of math (and time) before changes occur.\u00a0 Changes that can make your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[204,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}