Comments on: IDEA #47 – Video Trains and Tracking

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Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:45:29 +0000

[...] IDEA #47 – Video Trains and Tracking [...]

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:48:34 +0000

Yes — #4 is “sneaky”

By: Timothy Chen

Timothy Chen — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:22:28 +0000

That trick in point 4 is clever, but won’t it frustrate users if the page auto-jumps to the original site when they “just want to play the video”? @@”

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:27:11 +0000

The tech that Vidmeter provides is actually a good solution to a point-of-pain that a lot of young vlogs and video dailies are having. For example, a-nameless-video-daily (a real business) wants optimal distribution so they submit their daily videos to the top 10 video sharing sites everday. This video startup has a guy on staff that just does stats and submissions. Every morning he posts the new video and collects all the cooresponding tracking/embed codes, then he manually updates the stats for the past videos buy hand so they can get an aggregate number. Vidmeter fixes part of this problem with automation of stat aggregation, and hopefully they allow auto-posting to multiple services at one. Sure, such features would put this guy out of a job, but it’s a great niche startup to get involved in the metadata around online videos.