Here is a review of the 11 biggest online video sites and a summary of their green content. The review of each site concludes with links to their content in the areas of the environment, climate change and sustainable business.Google Video: A free video sharing website and also a video search engine. Google Videos allows selected videos to be remotely embedded on other websites and provides the necessary HTML code alongside the media. This allows for websites to host large amounts of video remotely on Google Videos without running into bandwidth or storage capacity issues. Google Videos search results include videos discovered by their search crawlers on other hosting services. In 2009, Google discontinued the ability to upload videos to Google's web servers.
Environment (millions of videos)
Climate change (260,000 videos)
Sustainable business (1,290 videos)
YouTube: One of the worlds largest video sharing websites on which users can upload and share videos. They display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations offer some of their material via the site.
Environment (282,000 videos)
Climate change (128,000 videos)
Sustainable business (716 videos)
Vimeo: A community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. Vimeo was created by filmmakers and video creators who wanted to share their creative work, along with intimate personal moments of their everyday life. Their site includes tools and high quality video.
Environment (12,742 videos)
Climate change (2,369 videos)
Sustainable business (573 videos)
Y!Video: A pop-culture mashup of all video from across the Yahoo! network in one place. Original and up-to-date videos from user-created content to exclusive Web shows.
Environment (7032 videos)
Climate change (1746 videos)
Sustainable business (26 videos)
Veoh: A revolutionary online video service that gives users the power to easily discover, watch, and personalize their entertainment viewing experience.Veoh gives you free access to all of the great TV and film studio content, independent productions, and user-generated videos on the Web. Veoh's powerful search capabilities and recommendations engine help you easily find videos. Veoh is an open platform for content publishers of all sizes and sophistication. Currently more than 100,000 publishers - from forward-thinking, well-known entertainment brands to independent, made-for-the-Web producers - use Veoh to connect with an audience of more than 28 million global, engaged, influential viewers. In addition, Veoh's unique publisher optimization program gives publishers powerful tools to help them raise awareness of their content and cultivate loyal viewing audiences.
Environment (5516 videos)
Climate change (1615 videos)
Sustainable business (22 videos)
Revver: An online media network that supports the free and unlimited sharing of media. Their unique technology pairs videos with targeted ads and tracks them as they spread across the web. Videos posted on Revver can go to places like AOL, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Blinx, iTunes, AppleTV, WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and mobile phones. They serve millions of videos each month using a powerful platform and suite of tools for serving and sharing media. They also have customizable widgets, vlog capabilities and an API for building video sharing sites.
Environment (3701 videos)
Climate change (786 videos)
Sustainable business (131 videos)
MySpace: This social networking site has thousands of searchable videos. MySpace operates solely on revenues generated by advertising as its user model possesses no paid-for features for the end user. Through its Web site and affiliated ad networks, MySpace is second only to Yahoo! in its capacity to collect data about its users and thus in its ability to use behavioral targeting to select the ads each visitor sees.
Environment (1000+ videos)
Climate change (1000+ videos)
Sustainable business (65 Videos)
MetaCafe: Thousands of short entertaining videos including information on climate change. Metacafe is one of the world's largest video sites. They specialize in short-form original content and are committed to delivering an exceptional entertainment experience. Videos are user-generated, user-selected, user-reviewed and user-rewarded. Good search feature.
Environment (1000+ videos)
Climate change (1000+ videos)
Sustainable business (641 videos)
blip.tv: About twenty people run blip from a SoHo loft. Their independent content is focused on technology, business development, distribution, marketing and advertising sales. More than 48,000 independently produced Web shows use blip.tv to reach more than 22,000,000 people. We distribute more than 2.4 million episodes from these shows across the entire video Internet and onto television screens across the country. Advertisers like Johnson & Johnson, Warner Brothers and Progressive Insurance advertise with us and we share revenues 50/50 with show creators.
Environment
Climate change
Sustainable business
DailyMotion: New ways of seeing, sharing and engaging the world through the power of online video. Find or upload videos about your interests, eyewitness accounts of recent news and distant places, and everything else from the strange to the spectacular. People use Dailymotion to share your videos publicly, discover new videos through channels or tags, get feedback on your clips and creative work and spread videos across the Web.
Environment
Climate change
Sustainable business
magnify.net: A video publishing platform that makes it easy to share videos. The website features a meta-search tool that combs the web for videos matching a site's specific focus such as environmental themes. Users can also upload their own video content, and the resulting mix is available for sharing, rating and ranking by the community as well as integrating into playlists. Templates and controls make it easy to customize, the site also provides advertising, community, statistics and network tools. The service is free to users and its business model is based on shared advertising revenue with the websites that use its service. Magnify has grown from 20 sites to more than 2,000 user-generated video channels since its launch. For the eco conscious surfers, their 'Nature and Environment' channel has great offerings.
Environment,
Climate Change
Sustainable Business
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