Hello Viddler
What is Viddler?
Viddler is a fresh, creative web application that lets you upload, enhance, and share digital video quickly and easily inside your web browser.
In other words Viddler is the hottest video sharing site online. A lot like YouTube but brings a social aspect to their site. After you post a video you can accept comments inline with the stream. This adds a new level to your Vlog by creating a conversation during your video that is shared with everyone and using tags that make searching and sharing even easier.
Who uses Viddler?
The exact number of users is a secret but it’s got to be in the millions (idk). The uploaded videos range from things like cooking tips to comedy. One of my favorite searches is the Me Today. This is a collection of Viddlers that post a video update daily. It’s the best kind of Vlogging done. Viddler Me Todays are usually entertaining and sometimes comical. Obviously I enjoy the posts from iJustine who holds some of the most popular and commented on videos and the Vlogger from down under DJ Steen.
Viddler pays you.
Besides being a kick ass video hosting service, one of the added benefits drawing people to Viddler and away from YouTube is the ability to make a few bucks off their video posts. What happens if you make some crazy video that goes viral? You can make a good chunck of change. There have been stories of people making a couple hundred dollars from a single video.
Viddler has decided to split revenues 50/50 with content producers, and it has given them a good deal of flexibility regarding the service as well. Producers can opt out of the advertising system completely or sign up for multiple levels of deployment. For example, you can deem that only advertisements from bidders can be displayed, and only through timed tags that you as a producer have created. Or you can allow Amazon to advertise as well, and through tags that your viewers create in addition to your own. -TechCrunch
Take a look at Viddler and let me know what you think. Do you use Viddler? Leave me a comment and I’ll watch your videos.
Here is a video thats shows a good sample of what you can see.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! Categories: Blog, Lead Story, Social Media Tags: advertising_system, amazon, Blog, chunck, content_producers, cooking_tips, couple_hundred, creative_web, exact_number, ijustine, kick_ass_video, koka sexton, koka_sexton, life, social_aspect, steen, thngs, viddler, video_posts, vlog, vlogger, vlogging, YouTube
There are 6 comments. Leave a comment!
¬ Nico
#461 May 7th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Totally agree about Viddler – I just wish the community were bigger, but that’ll take time. Nice article. I put my viddler profile in the website field of this comment, my videos on viddler are a vlog of amateur home winemaking, hope you enjoy.
-Nico
¬ Dave Mora
#460 May 7th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I think the bottom line about viddler is that we all love it because it feels more like a community instead of a service. I mean can I @youtube when I have a problem the same way I can @cdevroe?
¬ ChrisClark
#462 May 7th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Viddler is the best of the video-sharing sites that I’ve tried. In-stream commenting is a must-have feature for me now.
I’ll have to disagree with Nico, though. I like the community just the way it is right now (though I hope, for the sake of the people who are financially invested in the project, all of whom are class-acts in my book, that it does eventually grow).
My vids can be found at http://www.viddler.com/explore/chrisclark, if you’re interested.
¬ koka sexton
#463 May 8th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I agree. Vidder is more of a community and it is still small in comparison. I’ll stop by your Viddlers and watch some videos. Thanks!
¬ David
#458 May 13th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I love Vidder too! If only I had the face for video..
David’s last blog post..WordPress Plugin: Twitter Blaster
¬ Thom Yang
#984 July 10th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
There’s a reason viddler is 2 years old and popular with vloggers but not web surfers. The ability to insert massive blocks of advertising and get paid for your videos is not a bonus for the audience. And it creates even more desperate, artificial attempts at fleeting fame than have been seen even on YouTube.
Videos created with the purpose of “going viral” to advertise something or otherwise make money soil the whole concept. No thanks, viddler.