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Online Video Industry Index

2007-02-13T20:24:28Z

Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus

There are now so many companies vying to be the next YouTube, it's easy to lose track of them all. So let's take a look at the entire online video industry and categorize the major players. Our thanks to Ali Dagli of Savvian, for providing us a lot of the useful data listed here.

In this post we've summarized the latest video industry innovations under the following categories:

Video Sharing
Intermediaries
Video Search
Video eCommerce
Video Editing & Creation
Rich Media Advertising
P2P (Peer To Peer)
Video Streaming
Vlogosphere

Video Sharing

Video sharing - and particularly YouTube - have been the poster boys of the online video industry so far. Video sharing sites allow you to upload your videos and share them with others. But even if you are not a content producer, you can watch others movies. So this is a very consumer-oriented industry that has been popularized via blog-based viral marketing.

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YouTube - Like other Sequoia Capital investments Yahoo and Google, YouTube outperformed its competitors and has become a clear winner in video sharing. And Google didn't skip this opportunity in the online video space, as it took advantage of YouTube's legal hassles and snapped up the market leader for the relatively small sum(!) of $1.65B. Even though Google already had its own video sharing site, Google Video, this acquisition showed Google's ambitions in the online video space.

Yahoo Video remains well behind Google Video and YouTube. Also Yahoo Video does not support as many video formats as the others do. For example, you cannot upload your videos directly from your mobile, because this format is not supported yet. Yahoo is trying to increase Yahoo Video usage by making it a part of their other well established properties. For instance, you can see Yahoo Video stories on their homepage.

SoapBox is Microsoft's answer to the latest developments in the video sharing industry. It is in invitation only beta status for now, but will probably go live very soon. It is expected to be a crucial part of Microsoft's new Live.com initiative, although the site is currently under the MSN domain.

Grouper was snapped up by Sony for $60M and is expected to be integrated with Sony's future digital cameras.

PhotoBucket - a crucial component of most social networking sites and the number one photo sharing site, did not miss the big opportunity in online video space and has a video component too.

Webshots - like PhotoBucket, photo sharing site Webshots (a CNET property) has also caught the online video wave.

Ning - Netscape founder Marc Andreesen's latest venture recently turned its focus onto video features and in some sense became a player in the online video sharing space as well.

iFilm was acquired by Viacom, the owner of MTV Networks, in October 2005. The site claims to get more than 10 million visitors per month.

MetaCafe - Israel based company is estimated to be the second biggest player in this space after YouTube. The company does not limit itself to its home country and has big international ambitions. It was recently rumoured to be acquired by Yahoo for $200M. The company is backed by top tier VC companies like Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners. MetaCafe does not have a time limitation like YouTube, and offers a rich desktop client for easy uploading. Their unique revenue sharing program was a great innovation in this space.

DailyMotion - The number one video sharing site in France is also a key player in the global arena. Allows 150MB of video upload and has a larger default video size.

GoFish - Publicly traded company is worth $126M as of this writing. Its popularity is well below others though.

Dave.tv - The site wants you to program your own channel with your favourite movies, music and clips, then broadcast it from your web page, blog or MySpace. This is a well thought through viral marketing tactic, but the site's traffic seems low at this time.

Some of the upcomers in video sharing are: Vimeo, VideoJug, Kewego, China's Yoqoo, Revver,Veoh, iBloks, VidiLife, Blip.TV, VodPod, Fliqz.

Image from Go2Web20.net

Intermediaries

Do you think you can legally host your commercial videos on YouTube or MetaCafe? The short answer is no. For professional use, you'll need to contact intermediary companies to do this job for you. Their main duty is to connect publishers, video creators and advertisers.

BrightCove connects video creators with web publishers. This is a huge company that raised ~ $60M from investors including New York Times in their latest round of financing. Their syndication marketplace consists of 1319 channels as of this writing.
NBBC - powered by NBC, connects businesses that create video with businesses that want video, in other words a video marketplace. Note: the logo can mislead you and take you to a porn site; onbbc.com. Be careful, and I humbly recommend that NBBC switch to another logo!
VideoEgg - Connecticut based company empowers the video publishing of big consumers like TED events, Bebo, Hi5 and America Online. Raised $12M in Series C from August Capital and Josh Kopelman's First Round Capital.
Roo.TV is yet another big player in the video intermediaries field. They are traded in NASDAQ (RGRP) and their market value is $90M as of this writing. Some of their partners are Pioneer, Verizon, Warner Bros.
Maven Networks partners include 20^th Century, The Weather Channel, TimeOut New York, Walt Disney, Nike, and Sony Pictures. Accel Partners and General Catalyst Partners invested $10M in this company in 2004.
NarrowStep is traded in OTC and currently has a market valuation of $41M. Partners include Land Rover.
Gotuit Media has deals to power video content from EMI Music, UMG, Major League Soccer, and others. They also do video editing and creation (SceneMaker) and video sharing. We've covered Gotuit before on R/WW.

Other players include thePlatform and The FeedRoom, which empowers top companies like HP, Wal-Mart, Sun, USA Today.

Video Search

Google Video - after the acquisition of YouTube, Google now focuses its Google Video property on video search. This is a smart strategy, because the Google brand largely means search. YouTube was already the number one video sharing site and Google Video has exclusive access to all YouTube and Google Video data - which makes Google Video search much superior to others.
AOL Video Search is a successful video search service from AOL. AOL had this capability after acquiring the successful startup Truveo in early 2006.
blinkx differs itself from the crowd with its innovative interface, which shows a preview of videos in the search results. They also get satisfactory results from a variety of sites.
Pixsy is a successful, independent video search startup. It returned satisfactory results in our test queries.
Mamma - the site claims to provide lots of search options, but their focus is video. In our tests it was satisfactory.
ClipBlast claims to have the largest online video collection, but the results don't back this up.
TV Eyes is different, because it crawls not video sharing sites like YouTube - but real TV channels.

Video eCommerce

Video eCommerce sites allow you to legally stream the latest cinema movies and TV shows from your computer.

Guba was one of the first to enter this market, being founded in 1998. They are not only a video eCommerce site, but have free offerings and also a video sharing component. But video sharing on Guba is very small compared to video eCommerce. One of Guba's co-founders left the company after the YouTube acquisition and said in an interview that YouTube won the big prize - and there will be no more big prizes in the industry!
Amazon Unbox can be easily described as the iTunes of videos. Unbox allows you to preview and buy a wide selection of TV shows and movies for very low prices, starting from $1.99. The videos can be watched via an exclusive client app from Amazon.
MovieFlix offers videos in Real format. They offer 2 membership programs: free and premium. Besides the freely accessible videos, you can pay a monthly fee of $7.99 and access their 4000 titles - the quality is arguable though.
Vongo - if you are not a US resident, don't even try visiting their site. Well, you can use proxy servers, but Vongo has strict access restrictions - not only limited by browser and OS types, but also your location. The service works in USA only and they are known for their TV spots. The service requires you to install a client, then you pay $9.99 per month to get access to an unlimited number of movies.
MovieBeam is yet another video sharing site. It is pay per watch based and the prices start from $1.99.

This is another crowded market. Other players include MovieLink, CinemaNow, MarketBeam and the video eCommerce offerings of bigcos like Apple, Real and WalMart. Also, the Venice Project (Joost) from the Skype founders is targeting this market. Check out a recent Techcrunch comparison to review some of companies mentioned under this category.

Video Creation & Editing

You have videos, but how do you edit them? Are you willing to stick with desktop apps and pay hundreds of dollars in license fees? The Web is the answer again. The following sites are generally known to be good companions to video sharing sites.

JumpCut - this video editing site was acquired by Yahoo right after it got to its public beta status. It is expected to be embedded into Yahoo Video. This will bring a clear editing advantage to Yahoo over the others. Yahoo is currently far behind Google in the video space overall, so they should hurry up and integrate JumpCut!
EyeSpot - was invested in by Michael Robertson of mp3.com and Yahoo's JumpCut acquisition increases our expectations for this company to get bought by Google. The mix system would also be handy for MySpace's core user group, musicians who shoot their clip and then remix it to publish on their MySpace page. So News Corp is another potential acquirer.
Lycos Mix - no, Lycos is not dead. Lycos Mix, along with Lycos Cinema, is designed to take Lycos to the next level in the online video space.
Dabble - It's not exactly video editing, but playlist making with other videos fetched from video sharing sites.
Mojiti - China based company was covered recently by Read/WriteWeb. It allows you to add notations to your videos. Mojiti is also a video sharing site targeting the Chinese market.

Other players include, but not limited to, MovieMasher, MotionBox, Canopus and Avid.

Rich Media Advertising

Another hot area is rich media advertising. This is the field that will pump blood (=money) to all other services. Rich Media Advertising can consist of advanced computer science techniques like voice recognition (speech to text) and visual object recognition. We will just list the names, as most of them are very early stage.

Google and AdBrite are the major players. aQuantive (a $2B company traded at NASDAQ), KlipMart, PostRoller, eyeWonder, eyeBlaster, DoubleClick, adInterax (acquired by Yahoo! last year), padaddies, pointroll are other players.

P2P

Peer to peer is taking an important place in video sharing. Video sharing requires large bandwidth, which is why the burn rate of these sites is very high and only the VC backed ones survive. P2P is an answer to this problem, by spreading the bandwidth weight to clients using this system. There have been some recent large investments in companies working in this field.

BitTorrent - Creators of the popular open source P2P file sharing protocol do not own the protocol itself, but own one of the most popular clients and a search site. They recently got $20M funding from top tier firms like Accel Partners and acquired another popular bittorrent client ÂµTorrent.
Azureus - Creators of the Java based popular open source bittorrent client, Azureus is now entering the web space with Zudeo. They recently closed a $12M Series B investment from RedPoint Ventures and BV Capital.
Kontiki is a VeriSign company.

Video Streaming

So who do you think serves you all these videos? Video hosting is not an easy job!

Akamai is known as the world leader and serves big customers including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo. The company is traded on NASDAQ and has a market cap of $9B.
Limelight Networks is the site that powers YouTube, MySpace, iFilm and many others. They are growing fast and their last investment round was $130M, led by Goldman Sachs.
VitalStream was bought by Internap in 2006 for $217M.

Others include Savvis and RawFlow

Vlog-o-sphere

Blogs and photologs have already taken over many peoples lives - being an excellent way to share, communicate and self-express. And now with the commodization of digital cameras, comes the vlogs - a.k.a. video blogs.. They are either for fun or self expression, but a big industry can blossom here - there are a lot of opportunities. Tomorrows vlogs, for example, are candidates to replace your favourite daily TV shows. And popular vlogs don't just attract ads, but they also hold the potential to sign partnership deals with video sharing sites. Examples:

Ask A Ninja - this surprise hit recently become a member of Federated Media, John Battelle's directory of popular blogs.
Rocketboom is the best example of how far vlogs can go. This vlog is dedicated to reporting the latest developments in internet culture, in an original and entertaining way. It looks so professional that you may not able to differentiate it from TV shows you watch.

Conclusion

The list is certainly not complete. And this categorization is subject to change, for example with upcoming stealth mode startups. The innovation and opportunities in the online video industry are endless. Please help us take this list to the next level, by noting other companies you know of in the comments.

Comment from focsa on 2007-02-13

2007-02-13T21:20:08Z

good job.
thanx

Comment from Andrew on 2007-02-13

2007-02-13T21:30:34Z

Yes, this is one of the types of post that keeps RWW one of the subscriptions I keep, no matter how brutally I prune my blogroll.

Comment from franticindustries on 2007-02-13

2007-02-13T21:58:23Z

Exactly the kind of posts I like to read (and write (; ). Great roundup.

Comment from Narendra on 2007-02-13

2007-02-13T21:59:30Z

You are missing a big one: Webshots

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2007-02-13

2007-02-13T22:08:38Z

Thanks Narendra, I've added Webshots.

Comment from Kind And Thoughtful on 2007-02-13

2007-02-13T22:23:14Z

In the future, our economy will come to a screeching halt because the only thing people will be doing is uploading or downloading videos.

Comment from Matt Mendolera on 2007-02-13

2007-02-13T22:51:36Z

I'm surprised you didn't mention one of my favorite clients, IVT: the webcasting provider released the first ever "video webcasting for dummies" product last month--a do-it-yourself video webcasting and podcasting application called Studio. As you no doubt have noted, there are a lot of players in the consumer space and in the business space--Studio is basically the business video answer, for the masses. Check it out, it's a pretty straightforward tool.

For the record, round-ups are also what I appreciate about Read/Write, as it helps cut down on the clutter. I can't understand how anyone can get work done all day and still pay attention to the zillions of updates from some of those other blogs...

Comment from Richard on 2007-02-13

2007-02-13T22:52:07Z

Hi,

it seems out Twango (www.twango.com) is missing out. I don't know how big their userbase is, but they have a lot of nice features.

Comment from Kin Lane on 2007-02-13

2007-02-13T23:30:21Z

Great coverage of the industry. Not every player, but extremely comprehensive in showing how it all works.

This will take a while to digest.

Great Research Emre, Thanks so much.

Comment from Dave C. on 2007-02-13

2007-02-13T23:44:47Z

I'm curious to know if you felt a product like HelloWorld fit into this category. I mean I think it does, but I'm not sure how it compares.

helloworld.com

Comment from 24pfilms on 2007-02-13

2007-02-14T02:26:33Z

Also have a look at itiva.com as a P2p type of contender.

Comment from sandeep arora on 2007-02-13

2007-02-14T02:45:11Z

awesome job. very useful.

Sandeep
http://www.onlinevideopunch.com
covering internet video industry

Comment from Benjamin on 2007-02-13

2007-02-14T06:01:49Z

That clarifies a few things. A wonderfully thorough post. Thanks.

Comment from david on 2007-02-13

2007-02-14T06:20:15Z

I think http://www.compfused.com and http://www.viddler.com probably deserve a spot on this list as well. :) Haven't heard of a few on here either though. Good list :) Thanks.

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2007-02-14T06:30:17Z

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Comment from Anthony on 2007-02-13

2007-02-14T06:38:50Z

Great entry here. You might add Vidavee to the intermediaries section - they enable video, customers include Huffington Post and manandwife.tv

www.vidavee.com

Comment from Marshall Kirkpatrick on 2007-02-13

2007-02-14T06:48:18Z

Would love to show you SplashCast if you haven't seen it yet - http://splashcastmedia.com - could be placed in several of those categories.

Comment from Harry on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T08:47:32Z

Add Cuts in video editing.
Also Dabble is not at all video editing- actually it is video searching (as Mary Hodder would be glad to point out).
This space is getting chaotic - nice effort

Comment from Ran on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T08:53:59Z

Great summary, though I'm missing twistage and magnify.

Comment from gerry on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T09:57:40Z

You should add bubbleply.com to video creation and editing.

Comment from Michael on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T10:25:42Z

Why didn't you include Yahoo! Video in the Video Search category ? Video Search has been available on Yahoo! for years and you can find videos from everywhere on the web (from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, Yahoo! Music, ... any website).

Comment from stef on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T11:01:15Z

I'm surprised he didn't mention anything about sites like http://www.streamick.com or http://www.channelchooser.com .. I think they might be included in that list aswell..
Great post by the way, thanks.

Comment from Jeff Pulver on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T11:51:33Z

For Long Tail Internet TV Series he didn't meantion sites like our own Network2 - http://network2.tv

Comment from Fred on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T13:20:21Z

Under Video Creation, you might want to add Celtx - the open source media pre-production application.

Which just so happens to be releasing a new version today.

Thanks

Comment from infoflux on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T13:26:32Z

Not sure how you forgot eBaumsworld.com? They basically pioneered the genre, and remain at the top despite the sudden hoopla over online video.

Maybe they need a pretty web2.0 logo so you could include them in your misinformed "industry" article.

Now we need a "Wannabe Industry Experts Who Spam Digg With Buzzword Articles Yet Lack Any Experience Or Actual Knowledge In Said Industry Index"

Comment from Kelby on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T13:31:36Z

Check out www.PodZinger.com for audio and video search. They use speech to text technology to search the entire content of video so you don't have to rely on user-generated tags to find what you are looking for.

Comment from Matt_ on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T13:41:47Z

You also forgot Peer Impact who where the first P2P company to sign with a Major Studio back in November of 2005 (NBC\Universal) and then Warner and FOX in July of 2006 .\
Peer Impact rents Hollywood movies on a pay view basis and has a innovative revenue sharing model where its customers are paid for sharing content that purchased through the network.

http://www.peerimpact.com

You also forgot Joost and Bubblegum.

Bittorrent Inc doesnt even have a product on the market as of this month so its movie download product is essentially vaporware.

Comment from Bronwen on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T13:45:32Z

How about Scouta . From what I understand they are soon to launch and differentiate themselves from any of the areas you mention. They are about video and audio recommendations as opposed to searching. I'm a beta tester and I find I'm spending less time searching for content and just using the videos recommended to me. There is so much content out there now that it's a daunting task finding videos that appeal to you.

From the Scouta blog
Search is incredibly important to content these days. There is so much that we rely on it to find everything‚ÄìI do anyway. However, it‚Äôs not the only way to find great content. In fact recommendations make a much more compelling way to find content, especially audio and video. Whether a friend mentions a great new show, or a group you below to suggests some great listening, recommendations are usually more reliable that stumbling around search results: especially with so much content online.

That‚Äôs why we‚Äôve built a few ways to be given recommendations for online audio and video. Imagine turning on your television and having a bunch of relevant shows queued up waiting for you to watch, ones that you didn‚Äôt know about, but when you watch them you realise they match your tastes or interests. That‚Äôs what Scouta is aiming for.

Comment from Matt_ on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T13:46:55Z

ooops Bablegum....

www.joost.com

www.bablegum.com

Comment from Bronwen on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T13:57:04Z

Sorry try this link for scouta and just incase, :)
http://www.scouta.com/

Comment from ccarpo on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T14:12:25Z

http://www.clipfish.com a german site, has already tv commercials. don't ask me where the money comes from, but it seems very successfull.

Comment from john on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T14:15:30Z

http://www.emokoo.com came across this the other day and they seem to be allowing you to bring all of your viedos from sites listed above together.

Comment from Mary Hodder on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T14:15:54Z

Hi Richard,
Thanks for including Dabble.

We've actually indexed almost 8 million videos for search, playlisting and social interaction, including a wiki style read/write ability for logged in users to edit the records of each video.

Was thinking that maybe we belonged in Search or if you make it, a "discovery" category.. as we think discovery is where it's at.

Thanks,
mary

Comment from CharlesV on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T14:29:35Z

I assume you mean limelight networks, not limelight the editing house?
http://www.limelightnetworks.com/

Google is a magical thing!

Comment from CharlesR on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T14:55:11Z

While these search sites are cool - like how Blinkx.com indexes a site based off of its audio, it seems like this is largely irrelevant to todays internet video market. They want torrents of tv shows or they want the hottest videos. It seems like search is limited to finding previously viewed videos or ones they've heard about.

It seems the future of video is in making things smaller, cutting away the bs. I think more niche sites will arise that actually qualify their content and serve only the best on more specific genre's. These will be the sites that "cross the chasm" into true mainstream. Sites like DoHowTo.com come to mind in that it cleanly lets you access thousands of software videos by program and subcategory. No bs, just straight to the exact piece of content you want.

Comment from Gord Davis on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T15:09:04Z

Here's a new site for Video Sharing.

http://www.yaaway.com

Comment from ashkan karbasfrooshan on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T15:19:46Z

Nice list, just curious as to why you totally ommited video content producers? You know, the sub-category that actually makes all of these other sub-categories relevant?

Comment from Ben on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T15:26:10Z

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the omission of DivX or Stage6 (www.stage6.com).

If you are concerned at all about the quality of your videos or being able to watch them off of your PC on any of the 70 million DivX devices, then check out Stage6.

Ben...

Comment from gzino on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T15:26:19Z

great list - would add vidavee and reality digital to the intermediaries.

Comment from Frank on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T15:26:32Z

you missed Sevenload but you shouldn't.

@#30: clipfish is driven by a big german media company also driving some tv stations - doesn't make it really better but.. :)

Comment from Devlon on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T16:02:54Z

There is also, mefeedia.com :)

It's a great place for thousands of videobloggers and podcasters and their audiences to connect. We provide a number of tools for the vlogosphere to help videobloggers share and promote their video blogs.

You can ‚ÄúRoll Your Own Channel‚Ä? (your videoblog and podcast ‚Äúinbox‚Ä?) that keeps track of your favorite video and audio shows, updates you automatically when there is a new episode, and then downloads the shows to any place you choose (iPod, PSP, XBox, or even SecondLife)

Comment from Scilla Andreen - IndieFlix on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T17:35:04Z

This list is Awesome! Talk about inundating! I love seeing more and more outlets, technology, platforms etc. cropping up everywhere. Our company, IndieFlix provides content for so many of these on-line solutions and the more solutions the more opportunity to make money and get more exposure. This gives us the ability to empower an independent filmmaker even more so. While this new frontier is being defined and we wait to see which technology will emerge as best use and practice we have the ability to represent the indie filmmaker and cut a new path not try and get noticed in the dust of the Hollywood Blockbuster! Here's to the evolving present state of chaos and inundation for soon to follow there will be order and clarity. There are a few that didn't make the list but who can keep up? Thank you.

Comment from VM on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T18:46:20Z

VTVLive.com is a startup that puts more focus on quality rather than quantity of videos.

Comment from TJ on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T18:52:12Z

What about vSocial.com?

Comment from Megan on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T19:14:04Z

Hi Rishard and Emre,

I see the logo for PureVideo.com but no mention of the search destination, itself. For the time being, I believe PureVideo, Pixsy and Blinkx are the only Web-wide video search engines, the others only search for content in their own domains - ie) Google and AOL.

PureVideo is also outperforming Blinkx, Pixsy, TV Eyes, Mama, ClipBlast, and Truveo - see Alexa or Compete. Not bad for launching only 5 months ago. PureVideo is currently the Net's most trafficked Web-wide video search destination so its surprising not to see it mentioned here.

Also I don't see PureVideo Networks' other properties, StupidVideos or GrindTV. GrindTV is now the 20th most trafficked sports site in the US, and number one in action sports, and StupidVideos is ranked 6th in US video marketshare, according to Compete.

All the same, this is a pretty comprehensive list with a lot a new and siginificant players.
Very informative - thank you.

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T19:30:30Z

Thanks all for your great feedback! We will go through it all and update the post in due course. Keep the suggestions coming....

Comment from Pete on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T20:07:26Z

Great list, but how about AtomFilms? They survived the dotcom crash and broke the big JibJab animations during the Gore/Bush election. Plus, they have been paying their content creators from the beginning, since 1998.

Comment from Mack D. Male on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T20:08:31Z

Podcast Spot (http://www.podcastspot.com) is focused on podcasting, but we host video as well as audio. One of the neat features that might warrant a mention on this list is our automatic media conversion. Creators upload their video, and we convert it to a bunch of different formats automatically so that it can be easily transferred to portable devices, etc.

Anyway, excellent list, thanks for posting this!

Comment from Gary Croke on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T20:11:11Z

In reading through this site, seems one should look at CacheLogic as a new type of CDN for video content delivery...

Comment from mark on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T21:12:15Z

For video search, there's also purevideo.com that's in beta.

Comment from Mike on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T21:14:12Z

Very nice list, well done.
I might offer one you seem to have missed?
LiveDigital.com, owned by Oversee.net. It's an up and comer no doubt!
Mike

Comment from James on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T21:37:38Z

You missed two big ones: LiveVideo.com and Flurl.com.

Comment from scott shaffer on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T21:51:57Z

I would suggest adding RocketStream as an accelerated file transfer solution player.

Comment from jda on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T22:10:22Z

what about myspace videos??? i know myspace is mentioned a couple of times, but the in-house video sharing service deserves a mention.

Comment from Dover on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T22:19:42Z

Ze Frank has an awesome vlog at zefrank.com/theshow

Comment from momeda on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T22:35:25Z

You can see another breakdown of video sites that pay here:
http://www.scottkirsner.com/webvid/gettingpaid.htm

Comment from Megan on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T22:45:43Z

www.yurth.com is still in beta, but should be included in your list.

Comment from tkrinsky on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T22:58:50Z

one more to add to video sharing:
www.iklipz.com
new site that focuses specifically on independent film.

Comment from MD on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T23:51:20Z

Your description data is not accurate.
Gofish is the highest trafficked online video site behind Youtube.

Comment from Saket Kumar on 2007-02-14

2007-02-15T00:40:48Z

Great list Richard,

uLinkx is just launched (http://www.ulinkx.com). It's new video search engine and video bookmarking website. You can also do LIVE video search on Youtube, MySpace, Google video, Revver, Yahoo, Grouper ..

Along with video search, you can create your own playlist/channel, socialize with friends and syndicate videos using Widget and Google Gadget. Try Google gadget for video Search.

On first page, you can watch popular videos from Youtube, Google, MySpace, Revver, Metacafe, Yahoo at one place.

Comment from Webwatch on 2007-02-14

2007-02-15T02:20:49Z

Another website that has a comphrensive listing of Web Video Sites is http://www.webvideowatch.com.

Comment from Mike Sawyer on 2007-02-14

2007-02-15T05:30:45Z

Confirming comment #34, please correct the entry under video streaming to "Limelight Networks" with URL www.limelightnetworks.com (or short version www.llnw.com)
Great list!

Comment from Felix on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T11:04:49Z

You also missed german based zeec.de and the international version zeec.net.

Comment from Michael Relfe on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T14:44:42Z

FANTASTIC WEBSITE YOU HAVE! Please add this site to your list.

www.DTVUS.com - Digital Television. What is it? Feb 17, 2009. The day that will change everything. On that day your free-to-air analog TV signal will dissappear! And in its place will be the newest free-to-air Digital TV signal. Everyone must have a new Digital converter box. And that converter box will have Broadband Internet Capability. So everyone must get another black box. So what? What this means is that everyone will eventually have hi speed internet to their television. And that eventually everyone will watch internet based television! Listen closely. Every domain name is a TV Channel! And you can have your own!. You only have 36 months until this is implemented. But you must start planning NOW. The change to Digital Television is the single most imporatant thing to hit the multimedia world. Billions will be made. And lost. The old business model of "Push Media" is obsolete! People are tired of being told what and when to watch. Media portals like DTVUS.com will allow people to choose what to watch and when to watch it. And you can be a supplier! YOU CAN HAVE YOUR OWN TV CHANNEL !!! FOREVER! See www.DTVUS.com

Comment from Wibke on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T15:11:31Z

Hi Emre and Richard,
good overview but I'm missing www.spymac.com. They started with a new revenue-sharing model this January (2007). The best content providers with original selfproduced content can earn money on a daily and monthly base. This way they try to attract the most creative members to become THE creative content community ... check it out
Wibke

Comment from Scott J. Levine on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T15:22:39Z

Hi - I'm a product manager at AOL, and you may want to add AOL Video and UnCut Video to the list of products across Video eCommerce (we were one of the first destinations to launch download to own movies) and Video Sharing (we launched UnCut Video last year, which is our video sharing service, and includes interesting features like private video sharing, where you can send videos to friends or family and they can't be accessed by others). In addition, AOL Video also has one of the largest libraries of licensed, free content, including thousands of music videos, TV shows, and news clips

Comment from Michael Hoffman on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T17:04:39Z

Wow. It's a nice list but what blows me away is that in the comments you could basically double the list with additional suggestions. Here's another one, DoGooderTV http://www.dogooder.tv - A video site for nonprofit organizations to showcase their work. Also, VideoEgg is based in San Fran since they got funded.

Comment from David Clarke on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T17:52:44Z

Hello, Emre and Richard,
You have assembled a very good list and explanation of many of the top players in the video space... With one omission.

And that would be www.searchforvideo.com

www.searchforvideo.com connects consumers with the world's most popular online video content from over 10,000 global sources and millions of video clips. Searchforvideo.com aggregates and indexes references to video clips and video publishers and does not host or stream online video content. SFV directs consumers back to the content owner's website before playing the content, enabling providers and media creators to build their own traffic and better monetize content. Content owners retain all control over copyrighted material.

If you refer to above post #45 and include Searchforvideo among the group tested on Alexa you will see that Searchforvideo is the traffic leader.

I'd appreciate you adding Searchforvideo to your list.
Thanks very much,
David

Comment from Billy on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T18:13:21Z

Great post, but your information about the Rich Media Advertising is a bit off. AdBrite's only rich media product is their active interstitial. Other than that they provide text, banners, and their new inline and invideo ads. None of these formats is considered "rich media". And as far as I know they do not have any plans to support any additional rich media.

Comment from Mike on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T20:26:52Z

From the UK is the popular YourKindaTV.com

Comment from Curtis Sund on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T21:09:18Z

Find Internet TV (http://www.findinternettv.com/) - Provides a searchable directory of sites showing video on the web and a guide of large events online. It covers video-sharing sites and larger content channels such as NCAA, MLB, ABC, ESPN, etc.
Endavo (http://www.endavomedia.com/) - Belongs in the same video streaming category as Akamai, Limelight, and VitalStream. Provides integrated broadband delivery platforms
Mirror Image (http://www.mirror-image.com/) - Same story
Dreamtank (http://www.dreamtank.com/) - Newcomer in the content delivery network area

Comment from Sanford on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T21:44:25Z

Another place to look for a list of the sites - over 100 - is at http://www.politicalwarez.com

Comment from David on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T22:53:36Z

Please remember to add Gotuit Media (www.gotuit.com) the leading in-video metasearch technology and social video tagging application.

Comment from Josh on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T22:58:18Z

You've missed Akimbo - bringing lots of commercial and "long-tail" content to a variety of devices. Akimbo has its own player with RCA, supplies content for AT&T's Homezone, and announced partnerships with Cisco, Sonic Roxio, Sandisk, and Microsoft. Also announced content deal recently with Yahoo.

Comment from jbl on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T23:23:59Z

I am surprised you did not include Apple iTunes in the Video eCommerce category. Although iTunes is best known for selling music, it is also the #1 legal online video store.

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2007-02-15

2007-02-16T00:19:21Z

WOW! Thanks all for your suggestions. I honestly haven't had time yet to go through the comments in full, but I will do an update in due course.

I have to say, the title is probably a slight misnomer. We wanted this to be comprehensive list of the *main* online video companies - but not every single one of them (which would probably enter into the thousands!). So please don't be offended if your startup is missing. However we want to ensure we cover the main players, so tell us in the comments if that's the case.

I do want to apologize to Limelight Networks (www.limelightnetworks.com), whose name and URL we got incorrect in the original post. I've fixed that now, also adding Gotuit Media to Intermediaries (another glaring omission).

Comment from Cameron Shaw on 2007-02-15

2007-02-16T01:21:21Z

Fantastic summary. As noted by a colleague above, I would add UnCut Video. (Disclosure: I'm the priduct manager for the site). UnCut Video provides instant publishing ... very fast upload and sharing with almost no waiting. It's also a great place for private videos. Today we launched web cam commenting. The upload from mobile phone is fast and easy as well.

Comment from Brian Walsh on 2007-02-15

2007-02-16T01:25:29Z

I think there is another section to include and that would be CMS. My company, Castfire has a hosted CMS for podcasting and videocasting that includes media management, assembly, ad insertion, analytics and APIs for integration. Instead of looking @ pre-roll and post-roll, it allows you to place the ads anywhere in the episode. As well, it no longer treats media as stagnant pieces that do not change -- full libraries of audio and video can be changed instantly, enabling the monetization of evergreen content.

Comment from Matt_ on 2007-02-15

2007-02-16T02:11:43Z

Amother p2p video company is NFT

http://www.nft-tv.com/

They do streaming video

Comment from Zack Morris on 2007-02-15

2007-02-16T02:16:19Z

Probably should add vidmeter.com in the search section.

Comment from mike vicic on 2007-02-15

2007-02-16T03:05:08Z

trivialTV. Cataloging full-length TV episodes on the web that you can legally buy, rent or view for free. 26,544 links; 16,576 unique eps; 949 series

Comment from Equnioxpradeep on 2007-02-16

2007-02-16T08:29:02Z

Check this AOL site...got some kewl features
1.Private video sharing
2.Video comments

http://uncutvideo.aol.com

and many more...

Comment from Jinx on 2007-02-16

2007-02-16T08:33:00Z

Just wanted to add to equinox , we got 'Mobile Submission' on Uncut Videos.

http://uncutvideo.aol.com

Comment from TVnomic on 2007-02-16

2007-02-16T09:23:23Z

A flavour of the french market :

Brainsonic (rich media production and tools)
Dailymotion (the french YouTube)
Eyeka (pictures and video sharing platform)
Gaspanik (Live Web TV)
Glowria (the french Netflix + white brand VOD)
Kewego (white brand video sharing platform)
Moblr (video sharing platform for mobile)
Playfab (podcast aggregator with PC/Mobile synchronisation)
Podemus (podcast directory and tools)
Scroon (video sharing platform for mobile)
Skema (video production and management platform)
Tivipro.tv (B to B Web TV)
Vodeo (documentaries on demand)
Vpod (the french/spanish Brightcove)
Wevod (video production and management platform + video emailing)

2007-02-16T11:32:19Z

If you want to see what the results look like for video hosting, I have a (not recently updated) page of side-by-side comparisons at http://www.beginningwithi.com/vlog/test.html

Comment from Erik on 2007-02-16

2007-02-16T16:57:43Z

The number of "hey, you forgot XYZ" just shows how wild and wooly on the online video market has become. Keeping track of all of the sites out there and determining which ones are actually viable would be a full-time job. I appreciate you giving us a list with most of major players.

Comment from Sarah on 2007-02-16

2007-02-16T17:12:05Z

Hello, I enjoyed your recent article about the online video industry. I'm the marketing manager for AtomFilms.com and I just wanted to share a little bit about our history with you since we were the first online video site to offer a revenue sharing program to content creators. Since 1998, we've paid over $3 million in royalties to creators. Many of our top contributors have earned five-digit paydays, and a fortunate few have made over $100,000 in royalties ‚Äì off one hit video! If you've got a few minutes to kill, check us out some time. Thanks!

Comment from Oliver on 2007-02-16

2007-02-16T17:55:39Z

great list. a few sites are missing in the Video eCommerce section.

cinemanow
movielink
netflix

Comment from thomas on 2007-02-16

2007-02-16T19:09:32Z

DayPort? Anyone??

Comment from Emre Sokullu on 2007-02-16

2007-02-16T21:44:52Z

Thanks everyone for your comments, the list is getting complete with your feedback, we can publish a new list that contains latest updates.

Comment from Jason on 2007-02-16

2007-02-16T22:49:21Z

You forgot about such wonderful sites/services as panjea, muvee, and one true media.

Comment from Jason on 2007-02-16

2007-02-16T22:59:58Z

Sorry, you are also missing the biggest chinese video sharing site, which is www.Tudou.com, which translates, funnily enough, to potato.

Comment from dotcomrade on 2007-02-16

2007-02-17T01:26:33Z

Nice list, very well categorized. Here's a recently launched video search: http://webmunism.com/vids

Comment from bob bennett on 2007-02-17

2007-02-17T10:53:34Z

It looks like there is a new site coming out that combines video search, user content aggregation (channels) and widgets... looks like a cross between my blog log and vod pod.

As of today they are only taking alpha invites http://www.videosticky.com

Bob

Comment from Christophe Chatillon on 2007-02-17

2007-02-17T13:31:37Z

What‚Äôs about Mobile 2.0 and the Mobile Internet? There are already a few players in the mobile online video market, like our own company Moblr (http://dev.moblr.com/v1.5/ for the mobile version and http://www.moblr.com for the web version). We have visitors coming from all over the world, sharing and viewing thousands of 3GP videos.

Comment from Lionel on 2007-02-17

2007-02-17T14:30:48Z

Regarding the intermediation section, take a look at the service provided by Akamedia @ www.newspusher.com

Comment from Mustafa Ulu on 2007-02-18

2007-02-18T14:02:14Z

Kariyer.Net, an online human resources company in T√ºrkiye, accepts video resumes (CV).
This website is in Turkish. http://web3.kariyer.net/kariyerim/videocv/

Comment from eamonn on 2007-02-19

2007-02-19T11:57:42Z

Check out www.fluendo.com
Fluendo is a company specialized in delivering products and consulting services on Unix and Linux multimedia. Our flagship product is our streaming media server

Comment from Roger on 2007-02-19

2007-02-19T15:24:07Z

Veoh is a bit different, they don't have a size restriction.
So there are lots of full length movies there. You quickly get tired of 3 minute videos on youtube.
I have watched a few 90 minute documentaries and movies there.

They have a p2p client that can be used to access their videos. But it is crippled as they don't have any bandwidth control (unlike all bit torrent clients)

Comment from Emre Sokullu on 2007-02-19

2007-02-19T18:50:06Z

100 :)

Comment from Rob Pongi on 2007-02-20

2007-02-20T14:43:19Z

Don't forget SUMO TV:

http://www.sumo.tv/

Comment from Doug on 2007-02-20

2007-02-20T15:51:25Z

Here are a few other usful video tools. AlstraSoft Video Share Enterprise has a script for basically creating your own YouTube site. It's available at http://www.alstrasoft.com/videoshare.htm

Bubbleply is a free sevice that allows you to embed a video from YouTube, etc on your page and add annotations including hyperlinks. It's at at http://www.bubbleply.com/default.aspx

Comment from neke on 2007-02-20

2007-02-20T22:34:10Z

Don't forget MeeVee (www.meevee.com) on the search side -- TV listings and video combined.

Comment from jon on 2007-02-20

2007-02-20T22:51:03Z

Vmix is ad free and better quality than YouTube. like a cross between MySpace ans YouTube.

http://www.vmix.com/

Comment from six on 2007-02-21

2007-02-21T22:20:06Z

BubblePLY is another video tool to help you add comments on top of any online videos. http://www.bubbleply.com

Comment from Milton on 2007-02-24

2007-02-24T22:30:50Z

You forgot the first and biggest video podcast directory.
[url]http://www.videopodcasts.tv[/url]

Comment from Milton on 2007-02-24

2007-02-24T22:32:45Z

Hereby the correct link: http://www.videopodcasts.tv

Comment from Sita on 2007-02-25

2007-02-26T05:06:47Z

Great stuff, some additions:

Pando Networks - consumer P2P platform

Intermediaries/or CDN enablers:
- Extend Media
- Entriq

Comment from Paty on 2007-02-28

2007-03-01T01:32:05Z

This a must aditionn to this great list
http://www.onvos.com

Comment from Nagesh on 2007-03-01

2007-03-01T19:13:21Z

Pretty good roundup, but I can't say this covers all the majors, and I wish it had a little more depth. Some sites missed...

Under Video sharing:
There is a great list of sites and comparison at http://www.lifegoggles.com/?p=428

Under Video commerce:
video.aol.com

Under p2p:
Kontiki ( now verisign)
RedSwoosh

Comment from adam on 2007-03-03

2007-03-03T12:14:39Z

Hi, mentioned already http://www.sumo.tv A bit more than just video sharing , we have a full 24hr TV station showcasing the content, stream Mobile TV channels to handsets, wap sites and downloads and SKYPE & Live video to our TV channel. Launched in the UK we are now broadcasting and located in Indian, China and South America as well as the UK and have started our own virtual record label for music content.

Comment from Lloyd P on 2007-03-08

2007-03-09T00:43:50Z

Wow ... the sheer number of comments here indicates the power of the online video industry right now, and the absolute melee in the marketplace as every man and his dog rushes to have a service offering.

I think Narrowstep, who are huge in the UK and Europe, are notable for providing the best video quality on the internet. See one of their clients, www.singlemalt.tv, for evidence.

Comment from Lucas G on 2007-03-09

2007-03-09T17:41:40Z

Flikzor is a very popular among bloggers

Comment from Eric on 2007-03-09

2007-03-10T05:06:23Z

This list is great. We launched http://www.OVGuide.com (Online Video Guide) about 6 months ago and had to struggle to find quality video sites to put on it. Our main problem now is keeping up with all the sites. We are one of the leading online video guides and help people find something good to watch online. Time Magazine selected us as one of the top 10 best websites of the year for 2006. We have close to 600 video sites cataloged in 20 different areas.

A trend we are seeing is that people are wanting more production quality commercial sites with a focus on full-length videos. Niche areas, like education, movies, and TV are very popular. More general user-submitted YouTube like video sites, however, appear to be losing popularity compared to the more commercial sites.

Comment from Franz K on 2007-03-10

2007-03-10T20:44:10Z

Hi, mentioned already http://www.youzap.de

This is where you have a online remote control for easy cahnnel hopping on WebTV. It works, but now only in german