Video hosting service

3 History of video hosting services

A video hosting service allows individuals to upload

and share personal, business or royalty-free videos and
to watch them legally.[1] Users generally will upload via
the hosting services website, mobile or desktop applications or APIs. The type of video content uploaded can be
anything from short video clips all the way to full-length
movies. The video host will then store the video on its
server, and show the individual dierent types of embed
codes or links to allow others to view this video. The website, mainly used as the video hosting website, is usually
called the video sharing website.

Before Vimeo and then YouTube changed the way videos

were hosted on the web, the rst internet video hosting site was shareyourworld.com.[4] Just like the modern
hosting services, it allowed users to upload clips or full
videos in dierent le formats. It was founded in 1997
by Chase Norlin and it ran till 2001 where it closed due
to budget and bandwidth problems.

4 Free video format support

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Inuence

Some web sites prefer to use open video formats such as

Ogg or WebM. See also VP8 and HTML5-TV and free
With the increasing prevalence of technology and the Invideo software. In particular, the Wikipedia community
ternet in everyday life, video hosting services serve as a
advocates the Ogg format and some web sites now support
portal to dierent forms of entertainment, whether it be
searching specically for WebM videos.
comedy, shows, games, or music. Content may be either
both user-generated or commercial product. The entertainment industry now uses this medium to release music
and videos as well as movies and television shows directly 5 Copyright issues
to the public. Since many users do not have unlimited
web space, either as a paid service, or through an ISP of- On some web sites, users share entire lms by breaking
fering, video hosting services are becoming increasingly them up into segments that are about the size of the video
popular, especially with the explosion in popularity of length limit imposed by the site (e.g. a 15-minute video
blogs, internet forums, and other interactive pages.
length limit). An emerging practice is for users to obfuscate the titles of feature-length lms that they share by
providing a title that is recognizable by humans but will
not match on standard search engines. It is not even in all
cases obvious to the user if a provided video is a copyright
infringement.

The mass market for camera phones has increased the

supply of user-generated video. Traditional methods of
personal video distribution, such as making a DVD to
show to friends at home, are unsuited to the low resolution and high volume of camera phone clips. In contrast,
current broadband Internet connections are well suited to
serving the quality of video shot on mobile phones. Most
people do not own web servers, and this has created demand for user-generated video content hosting.[2][3]

6 Mobile video hosting

A more recent application of the video hosting services
is in the mobile web 2.0 arena, where video and other
mobile content can be delivered to, and easily accessed
by mobile devices. While some video-hosting services
like DaCast and Ustream have developed means by which
video can be watched on mobile devices, mobile-oriented
web-based frontends for video hosting services that possess equal access and capability to desktop oriented web
services have yet to be developed. A mobile live streaming software called Qik allows the users to upload videos
from their cell phones to the internet. The videos will
then be stored online and can be shared to various social
networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

Purpose of video hosts (for users)

Save on bandwidth and hosting costs, often eliminating costs entirely.
Creating a common place
Make a hassle-free experience, where uploading a
video and streaming or embedding would normally
require advanced programming knowledge. It is
now commonly achieved through a web browser,
with little programming experience.
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Videos will be stored on the servers and can be watched

from both the mobile devices and the website.
List of video hosting services
Coparison of video hosting services
Flash Video
Streaming media

References

[1] Aichner, T. and Jacob, F. (March 2015). Measuring the

Degree of Corporate Social Media Use. International
Journal of Market Research 57 (2): 257275.
[2] Recommended Online Video Hosting
Groundwire.org. Retrieved 2014-01-19.

Services.

[3] Ten video sharing services compared Apr 7 2006

[4] First Video Sharing Site Paved the Way for YouTube
ShareYourWorld.com Was There First to Launch Ten
Years Back. Beet.TV. Retrieved 2014-01-19.

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