Video Marketing: 7 Youtube.com Alternatives for Traffic and Exposure
05. Aug, 2011 
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When you think of Video marketing online, youtube.com is where most people think to go first. It’s been around a long time and now that it’s owned by Google it’s one of the most popular video sharing sites on the Internet. But it’s not the only one. There are several viable alternatives to youtube.com when it comes to video sharing sites for video marketing. Let’s take a look at seven of them in no particular order where you can host marketing videos and include a link back to your site.
1. Metacafe
Metacafe’s content is carefully cultivated and reviewed by an 80,000 member viewer community. With 38 million unique monthly visitors worldwide, your video hosted at Metacafe will get viewed.
2. Revver
Revver provides a way for video producers to generate revenue with their videos. They attach a contextual ad to the video and the more the video is viewed the more revenue it generates. All of the videos are rated similar to movies with a G, PG or PG13 rating system.
3. Daily Motion
DailyMotion is a video sharing site that puts a lot of emphasis on building community by incorprating some social media elements to their profiles such as the ability to create a contact list of other DailyMotion members and share your feedback with them about the videos that you watch.
4. Vimeo
Vimeo allows users to create channels for sharing videos among groups. They have a video school to help you improve your skills, and Vimeo has an app that lets you watch, upload, edit and manage your videos right from your smart phone.
5. Blip.tv
Blip.tv seems to attract webseries–webisodes and other kinds of video series. You can sign up for an advertiser account and split the revenues 50/50 with Blip.tv. You’ll find analytics and other useful tools on their user dashboard.
6. Veoh
Specializing in long form videos, Veoh does not restrict the size of your videos when you are uploading them. They do not have the vast audience of youtube, but they feature high quality content.
7. Viddler
Viddler promises to help you build your brand using video marketing with a bias toward larger corporations as opposed to home grown videos produced by individuals.
All of these alternatives to youtube.com are video sharing sites that offer free memebrships. They may not have an audience to rival the millions at youtube.com, but some sites emphasize the power of community, and cultivating quality content for a more satisfying user experience.
A good video sharing site should be intuitive enough for a newbie to understand, have helpful features and available support to answer questions and concerns.
Video marketing is a powerful way to get lots of exposure and targeted traffic to your website. Making short, engaging, entertaining and educational videos will attract prospective customers and help you to expand your brand online in a cost-effective manner.
So, there are just a few of the alternative video sharing sites that you can try instead of or in addition to youtube.com for attracting traffic and getting exposure using video marketing.
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