Why Blip?
Okay, I’m strongly considering dropping Blip.tv from my syndication schedule. It’s not based on any grievance or grave dissatisfaction, it’s purely practical. My Vimeo video looks better, and supports HD. The multiple mirrors and Flash versioning, I take care of on my own website. RSS feed, I’m squared away. iTunes syndication, I’m not doing that anywhere else with my films right now, but if I wanted to do so via Wordpress it’s not hard. Not a gigantic fan of the tiny screen in this new age of HD, but I recognize there might someday be potential there. Still, not something that only Blip can provide.
Automatic syndication to MySpace / Internet Archive? Buggy when it works at all, and those aren’t mirrors I actively need, nor are they places where I’ve built an audience.
The Miro player thing? A nice idea, but it’s an outmoded delivery system. People don’t want to watch video on the web in the same way they do on TV, and Miro feels like TV.
View count is pitifully low there, but that’s not Blip’s fault, it’s just not a part of my current promo package to send anyone there, so the only viewers are ones who find my stuff by accident.
I know some of you are fans of Blip. Given my situation (full-featured personal website) and current syndication partners (Vimeo, YouTube, MyToons, Aniboom - the latter of which I’m also considering dropping b/c it seems redundant and has also proven a bit lifeless)… is there any reason you can think of that I need to keep putting my stuff on Blip? I’m open to persuasion. Am I missing something?
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I am digging on veoh.com lately - it provides both streaming website video plus a download option and all powered by peer-to-peer! I have watched over 50 full length films on this website and downloads, when I download, are typically faster than my bit torrent client. Veoh also has syndication and embedding features etc.
I have spent more time in front of this website than pretty anything else in the last little while.
Cheers!
HH
Comment by HatHead Rickenbacker — December 4, 2008 @ 8:54 am
This is coming strictly from the should-be-working department, but I do appreciate the extra streaming mirror or two for when (not if) those streaming sites become blocked here at work. Something that’s been on my to-do list forever, is to get my own videos on other streaming sites so I can even view them myself. Youtube, alas, was blocked LONG AGO.
Plus it takes, what? An extra 10 minutes? And even if you only reach 1 additional viewer by pure happenstance, is that alone not worth its weight in gold?
Comment by Buddy_DoQ — December 4, 2008 @ 9:25 am
I’ve been paying for blip.tv for quite some time because it allows me to lock my files up if need be. I had a serious problem with my high-profile clients hot-linking to my personal file server, which would get hammered as a result. I could easily upload new versions, password protect them, and then give them the link and password, so they knew better than to hotlink. They’d be forced to upload it to their own space. I was also able to give them multiple versions on one page.
Other than that, there’s no real reason other than I feel it’s the next closest quality to Vimeo. I guess if you’re a serious videographer that wants to upload more than 500mb/wk, then blip.tv is the way to go.
Comment by moo Money — December 4, 2008 @ 11:45 am
“Blip” sounds cuter than “Vimeo.”
Comment by kradproductions — December 4, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
Is this old news - how to get full 720p HD out of Youtube!?
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/How_To:_Watch_YouTube_Movies_in_Full_720p_HD_Glory
Comment by Russell — December 9, 2008 @ 7:31 am
a little late on this band-wagoon but two of the biggest assets i’ve found with blip.tv were
. the ability to amend the date of upload (as such all the old work i’ve done has been put up there and appropriately back-dated accordingly)
. the option to upload via FTP (host=ftp.blip.tv, and your name/password are those you use for blip.tv) which given the number of times I’ve lost a file upload with youtube.com or machinima.com due to time-outs has been a god send
Comment by mrdougan — February 8, 2009 @ 5:06 pm