Video Sphere

More and more new artists are discovered through their online performance spread over the internet thanks to embedded videos.

If you are good, start with a blog, register on one of the most famous Video Sharing website (such as YouTube) and upload your videos. Then spread your videos on other video sites…

But be patient, because it could take some time before it really spread around…but if you are really good, once the buzz has started, you can expect a huge increase of viewers and maybe a contact with a major !

You don’t believe it ? Concrete example:

Esmee Denters first began to gain awareness by posting cover performances of Beyonce, Alanis Morrisette and Alicia Keys on her YouTube page. Actually she joined YouTube on August 25, 2006.

18 year-old Esmee Denters hails from Oosterbeek, Holland, where she has had 21 million views on her YouTube site since she posted her first performance.

The result ? Esmee Denters has signed to Tennman Records. In addition, to being on tour this summer with Justin Timberlake, she is currently writing/recording on her debut album which is slated for release later this year.

On the ConsumerReports.org website you can watch videos reporting crash tests of a wide variety of cars.

You select a vendor, then a model of car and finally a Year and you are done ! Just watch the crash test of your car…

Impressive as well as instructive…

Everyone has already noticed that YouTube changed their default video player. Actually, it has been changed twice in a very short period of time, because of a new feature quite annoying when activated by default.

Indeed, the new player allows to display a list of related videos. This is a very interesting feature. Nevertheless at the early beginning of the launch of this new player, several days ago, YouTube activated this option by default: each time your mouse was just below the current video, this related list was displayed, and the main video screen was reduced while playing: Quite annoying when watching a video !

Now YouTube has changed this, and this related list is only available through a click on the “Menu” button on the right end corner of the player.

This button gives also a direct access to the code for embedded video & permanent link. In clear, it means: no need to go to the YouTube website anymore to put the video on your very own blog !

Actually, very few people know this, but you can configure some parameters of the embedded player. With a simple parameter you can turn off or on the related video list and other customization options seem to be in preparation…

It means that if you are so strange that you prefer the old YouTube player, well…you can stay with it… But remember this: with related videos available right there in the player, your readers and viewers will certainly stay longer on your blog !

For more info, read “New! Related Videos Appearing on Embeds” and “Update on New Embedded Player“.

“Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter once said that innovation is the driving force of economic progress. Entrepreneurs, he said, are the agents of innovation. These words capture the essence of Vator.tv.”

The spirit:

Vator.tv is a YouTube for entrepreneurs looking to pitch their business ideas. In a more professional way we must say it is a professional network and marketplace for ideas and businesses, where anyone, across all industries, at any stage, can share ideas, products, services and businesses with the rest of the world, mainly through video.

Its founder, the charming Bambi Francisco, after 8 years working for MarketWatch, hopes to make Vator.tv a contributor in the drive for economic progress by serving as a catalyst for innovation. It is an extension of Bambi’s passion to give investors an edge by exposing opportunities at the earliest stages.

Hence, the name Vator, for innovator, or elevator, since the pitches are given in the span of an elevator ride.

How to use it:

But Vator.tv is much more than a simple YouTube for entrepreneurs, it is a real community for innovators to showcase their ideas, discover, collaborate, exchange knowledge and muster the resources to get their idea to the next level.

When you first register you are asked to fill in who you are (business owner, employee, freelancer, student, looking for work, investor, …) so you immediately understand you are not here to watch and share dumb videos…

When registered, you can not only upload your own pitch, but also:

• browse existing videos through keywords, categories, upload freshness,
• search for service providers by category, country and city,
• have a look on the common tag cloud,
• search for people by name, company or type of profile (business owners, employees, freelancers, students, jobseekers, investors),
• browse the company directory where you can find a link to companies websites and of course uploaded pitches,
• contact people and share interesting pitches with your friends and external contacts.

So, if you are an entrepreneur looking for a founder of a new company, an engineer inside a corporation or University with a new product idea, an author who wants to make a film out of his book, or a proprietor of a small business who wants to franchise, register and upload your pitch on Vator.tv without loosing a minute !

A short presentation by Bambi Francisco & Cyril Brignone:

Who doesn’t know Joost, the famous P2P TV Software (formerly known as The Venice Project) ? Babelgum is probably the first real competitor for Joost, but that will not help you understand what’s behind the concept of Peer To Peer TV…

Well, P2P Tv software are a new way of conceiving television, a free on-demand TV over the Internet that lets you watch whatever you want, whenever you want, as often as you want.

Let’s have a closer look at this software & the business model behind it for both, Babelgum and video publishers…

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