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Mar22

YouTube vs MySpaceTV vs Facebook Video Promotion

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I recently got hold of a copy of a promo video for one of my tracks from the mid 90s, the 99th Floor Elevators “Hooked”.

I was eager to get a copy of the video, which saw some MTV airtime in Europe, simply to use it as another online tool to promote my dance tracks which have recently been enjoying something of a revival in the UK with a series of new dance mixes.

Anyway, I posted the video on MySpaceTV, YouTube, Facebook and Last FM and it was interesting to see the difference in quality of the video stream and also the feedback reaction.

For a start most people associate online video sharing with YouTube, no ifs and buts about that one and that seems to be reflected in the amount of page views and feedback of my promo video, comparing the four services.

I’m pretty sure most people are still not fully aware that Facebook have branched out into MySpace territory with its Facebook Music spin-off and MySpaceTV has a while to go before it gets similar eyeballs to YouTube.

The difference is noticable (at least using this video as an example). The ‘Hooked’ – 99th Floor Elevators video so far has 2095 views on YouTube vs. 80 on MySpaceTV. The video was posted within twenty four hours on each service.

There does seem to be a noticeable quality difference though, with MySpaceTV winning quite easily with a noticeably superior quality stream compared to YouTube.

Though there is a settings change mentioned here to up the default YouTube stream quality. Facebook have a bigger pixel stream though on the downside there is no embed code like the other sites, just an email link to send the video link.

Related Links

Social Impact of YouTube (Wikipedia)
YouTube The King of Video Sharing? (Mashable.com)
List of Video Sharing Websites (Wikipedia)
New YouTube Developer Tools…..(Wired.com)

Mar1

Links for 2008-03-01

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  • WHA!? Studios
    Bastard pop net label, including Scissor Sisters mash-up remix album. Free MP3s/torrents.
May9

Links for 2007-05-09

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  • YouTube Killer Gets CNet On Board
    News Corp. and NBC Universal announce today a multi-year content and distribution agreement with CNET Networks for their joint premium online video venture dubbed the YouTube Killer.
  • Earbuzz anounces new site.
    the independent online music retailer, has announced a complete solution for music artists as the first and only music store to offer both digital downloads and CD sales with 100 percent of the purchase price paid back to artists
  • The Filter Launches Last.fm-style Social Network, WMP Support
    The Filter is a music recommendation service which started as a beta in 2006, and is endorsed/evangelized by none other than Peter Gabriel.
  • Beatport Launches Song Player for MySpace Profiles
    Of all the MySpace add-ons, it seems like the music category is filling up the fastest. The latest to join the long, long line of MySpace music players is BeatPort, an online music store that specializes in dance music and remixes. They’ve just announce
May8

Links for 2007-05-08

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  • Rough Trade opens massive record shop to fight internet – Independent
    Rough Trade, which had its origins in a pokey music store on Kensington Park Road in London, is to open Britain’s biggest music-only shop in a direct challenge to the all-conquering power of the internet.
  • Legal Music Services Compared
    And not so legal services….Run down includes borderline legal Russian download services.
  • Listening Post – Wired Blogs
    the popular online music streaming site Pandora instituted blockade against IP addresses outside of the United States. Frantic Industries posted a list of proxy techniques you can use to fool Pandora into thinking you’re in the U.S.
May6

Buzzsonic DJ

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We’ve been running a music industry search directory for a number of years now as a sub domain on the 99th Floor Elevators blog here and have long been planning to update the resource as its been running on a creaking five year old php script, which is as far removed from Web 2.0 as you can get, bursting at the seams with horrid session iDs and other unsightly stuff !

Anyhow, we’ve moved the directory over to its own stand-alone domain name at Buzzsonic.dj and a new script from those clever Malaysian programmers at Indexu (since bought out by French owners I understand). There’s still some work to be done, especially cleaning up the database and adding tags but its looking OK so far. There’s going to be a forum added hopefully for more interaction and you can actually post comments and “tell a friend” already on any of the directory entries you might want to share or shout about.

Any suggestions are actively encouraged naturally.

May4

Links for 2007-05-04

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  • Daves Imaginary Sound Space
    Web toolbox, list of useful online apps.
  • Media Distribution
    If you were looking for a list of links where you can get your podcasts, videos and audio distributed in the web 2.0 media world, here it is, courtesy of Dave’s Imaginary Sound Space.
May3

Links for 2007-05-03

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Apr29

Links for 2007-04-29

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Apr28

Links for 2007-04-28

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  • Digg – Carry a PC Repair System on a USB Drive
    The Daily Cup of Tech computer help site put together a USB-drive based collection of software that’ll help you resuscitate any ailing PC. All wrapped up into one convenient, 14.2MB zip file, the USB PC Repair System contains 37 fix-it utilities.
Apr27

Links for 2007-04-27

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