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Which Video Sharing Service is Best for You?

04.10.11 @ 3:24PM Tags : blip.tv, choosing-online-video, hosting, newsletter, sharing, social, tubemogul, video, videosharing, vimeo, youtube

The NoFilmSchool newsletter includes a lot of exclusive content that doesn’t appear on this site; this post is a sample of one such email that used to go out. In it, we’ll look at why you should use a video sharing service, and which services might work best for you. I mistakenly removed this email from the list thinking it was causing folks to unsubscribe, but it turns out I was reading the analytics wrong (and I can’t reinstitute the email without sending it a second time). So here’s a sample of the newsletter — subscribe free for more exclusive content! More »

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How to Cheat at the YouTube Game and Get Millions of Views

12.16.10 @ 11:04AM Tags : choosing-online-video, distribution, guest, guestpost, robin-schmidt, youtube

This is a guest post by filmmaker Robin Schmidt, who today courts controversy with his ongoing series Choosing an Online Video Platform. Next time you see a view count in the millions, you might wonder where some of those views came from! This is not to say that I’m suggesting filmmakers cheat, but NoFilmSchool is devoted to sharing the tools that might help a filmmaker succeed, and the ability to hack YouTube is certainly worth filing under “good to know” — even if you never employ such tactics. Without further ado, here’s Robin: More »

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Choosing an Online Video Platform: Playing the YouTube Game

12.3.10 @ 5:39PM Tags : choosing-online-video, distribution, guest, guest-post, robin-schmidt, youtube

This is a guest post by filmmaker Robin Schmidt a.k.a. El Skid.

In Part 1 I talked about picking YouTube as the correct platform for our project Super Massive Raver, for the plain and simple reason that it had the greatest access to an audience of any of the current options. When looking to monetize video online I think you have to be pretty circumspect and accept that the general public are highly unlikely to pay for video content unless you give them a compelling reason to do so. More »

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Choosing an Online Video Platform: YouTube Pt. 1

11.24.10 @ 11:28AM Tags : choosing-online-video, distribution, guest, monetization, robin-schmidt, web-series, youtube

This is a guest post by filmmaker Robin Schmidt a.k.a. El Skid.

If you receive Koo’s regular newsletter (and you should by the way) you’ll have recently read a short appraisal of the various video sharing sites currently around. I’ve been developing a weekly comedy show called Super Massive Raver which we’re looking to monetize online and, believe me, once you start digging into this area the reading gets pretty grim pretty quickly. More »