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optimalwebsite
01-20-2010, 08:31 PM
I'm looking to make videos and sell advertising on the site which plays them for free... the question... is this commercially viable, or will it always be the case that the ads can never make enough money to cover the cost of someone viewing it?
The plan was to use short YouTube clips to promote them, then refer them back to the site to view the full length versions...
The video's content is technical/scientific, so its very much a niche, albeit a popular one... (it refers to climate change).
Question #2: Can someone recommend a suitable host?
Warm Regards,
joel
I'm looking to make videos and sell advertising on the site which plays them for free... the question... is this commercially viable, or will it always be the case that the ads can never make enough money to cover the cost of someone viewing it?
joel
That is a real issue and it is a competitive business, so your videos have to stand out and be professional.
Question #2: Can someone recommend a suitable host?
You may need a server solution from the beginning since it is easy to fill a disk with videos. Increasing price and most probably power:
http://www.server4you.com (Discovered them recently)
Dedicated Servers, Self-Managed Dedicated Server, Dedicated Hosting at ServerPronto (http://www.serverpronto.com/) (Have been in the business for a long time)
Dedicated Server Hosting, Managed Dedicated Servers, Hybrid Networks, ServePath (http://www.servepath.com/) (Have been in the business for a long time)
optimalwebsite
01-21-2010, 05:29 AM
The video I will film myself, I'm sure large numbers of people will want to see it.... the problem is I need to figure out how best to let make money off advertising for it. Any ideas?
keyon
01-21-2010, 12:18 PM
I'm sure large numbers of people will want to see it.
This of course is what you'll need (and lots of it) to earn any revenue from advertising. But that's just a starting point. People don't always do exactly what you want them to do (buy something, click an ad, etc.) - even if you can get them to your site in large numbers.
Not necessary to make guesses about any of this, though. The Web allows you to test this stuff out - with amazing accuracy - before you spend a lot of time and money developing something that goes nowhere.
By the way, I've seen a lot of people using Amazon S3 for video hosting.
puamana
01-21-2010, 08:28 PM
If you are working on a limited budget, I'd suggest launching and building traffic first, and if it gets too big,
move to dedicated server, (perhaps one of those offered above) and you can monetize your site at the same time, by selling advertising, once you have enough traffic.
If you are selling copies of your video, on disk say, or books or ebooks for download, that's another way
to monetize your site from the get go... don't overprice it though. Your audience will be people without deep pockets for the most part, and a lot of sales at a small price is better than one or two sales at a large price.
good luck!
puamana
slimwoman
01-21-2010, 10:30 PM
I recommend GVO. My signature has a link to their service. I have unlimited video hosting with Easy Video Producer. I can create a video, set up an autoresponder for the video, create a capture page with a sign up box to capture the prospects information. I have used their service for several months and it is very reliable.
Danielle Parsons
I have some bad experiences with cheap hosting that can be expensive hosting. I have deleted two hosting companies and have a big problem with a third one. Nearly daily problems after I paid the last two year bill.
My signature has a link to their service. I have unlimited video hosting with Easy Video Producer.
Unlimited?
slimwoman
01-21-2010, 10:56 PM
Yes. You can produce as many videos as you wish. I have 8 right now and will continue to produce as my business needs them.;)
Tarzan2
01-22-2010, 12:52 AM
Yes. You can produce as many videos as you wish. I have 8 right now and will continue to produce as my business needs them.;)
Is that supposed to be 2 links in your signature? If so, only 1 is working. The working one has a copyright of 2014??? but I didn't see any obvious reference to the video host.
deadhippo
01-22-2010, 01:34 AM
You can host videos on something like Vimeo using their plus account with the option to only show the video on the website of your choice. You don't even have to show it on vimeo.com. You can control the colors and other features too.
Is that supposed to be 2 links in your signature? If so, only 1 is working. The working one has a copyright of 2014??? but I didn't see any obvious reference to the video host.
I recommend GVO.
Search for GVO and you find some (at least one) hosting companies, with GVO in the domain name, but I can not see that they specializes in video hosting.
Here YouTube Clone Hosting (http://hostonnet.com/ffmpeg_hosting.php) is one video hoster, but I can not see that they are cheap, USD 20 / month for 20 GB space.
Related WPW thread where there is some discussion about video hosting:
http://www.webproworld.com/castle-breakroom-general-any-topic/72922-first-online-video-some-questions-4.html#post397214
Now, when computers with one Tb storage and above are becoming more or less the standard, another solution is to colocate your own server.
slimwoman
01-22-2010, 10:57 AM
GVO hosting has many marketing features as part of a month's subscription. You can start with a 14 day trial for $1. There is a 10 seat hot conference room, unlimited hosting, unlimited easy video producer, unlimited eresponder (maximum list of 20,000), and a downtime witness feature. My signature link takes you to the GVO site. I will be working most of today until around 17:00 pacific time.
slimwoman
01-22-2010, 11:04 AM
You are right. My signature link was going to my domain. I have updated it and the link is going to GVO now. The owners of the company have 12 years experience. They are located in San Antonio, Texas which is known as a high tech business mecca. Their equipment is new. Rackspace is near and Austin, Texas is the home of many internet firms including Dell Computers. If you want to see some of the videos I made, just go to my name: danielleparsons.com and you can see videos on my products page and services page. Those videos are hosted on GVO servers.;)
You are right. My signature link was going to my domain. I have updated it and the link is going to GVO now.
Advice them to delete the annoying pop up and they may get a link from an experienced link collector;).
Read more here: DigitalStart.net: The starting point for English speaking surfers and webmasters (http://www.digitalstart.net/)
PixelMob
01-22-2010, 01:02 PM
Go with the S3 account. Its easy cheap and once you get to making some cash you can move up to a service like Brightcove.
sequencehosting
01-22-2010, 04:12 PM
I'm looking to make videos and sell advertising on the site which plays them for free... the question... is this commercially viable, or will it always be the case that the ads can never make enough money to cover the cost of someone viewing it?
The plan was to use short YouTube clips to promote them, then refer them back to the site to view the full length versions...
The video's content is technical/scientific, so its very much a niche, albeit a popular one... (it refers to climate change).
Question #2: Can someone recommend a suitable host?
Warm Regards,
joel
Hello Joel,
Advertising can certainly make profit for video related sites but it's not as easy as it sounds. First of all are you looking to sell advertising to third parts (No middle man) or are you going to use something like Google AdSense or another PPC program? Both can make you profit.
The problem with displaying third part ads is the chances are no one will be interested until you show them have much traffic your site gets. This is of course a problem because when a site is first released it will get very little traffic. The good thing about using a PPC program is that it's quick and easy to set-up but the profit may be less.
I recommend you think about the following:
- Find a script that will only play the video once the ad has been shown. That will guarantee you at least that amount of revenue from each visitor.
- Try and collect your visitors email addresses so you can promote affiliate products related to climate change.
- Experiment with different type of ads. For example instead of using PPC advertising you may with to look at CPM. This works on a cost per impression basis for the advertiser.
Do you know the size of your video? How many visitors do you expect to get to your website? Are you only going to be showing 1 video or more?
Jack
PixelMob
01-22-2010, 04:25 PM
SequenceHosting makes good points for you. You could also consider setting up a YouTube account and marketing through them or even use their ad placement service.
BrightCove will also set you up with embedded advertising but they all take a cut.
On the tech side you may want to use a hosting company for your web pages and use something like S3 to store your videos. I set up a client with this type of thing and is working good for them. Marketing your videos will be your biggest challenge since getting good traffic will result in you getting higher ad rates.
You could even use a wordpress/blog site for the surface site and go from there.
dgswilson
01-23-2010, 12:39 PM
I use Arvixe http://www.arvixe.com/ (http://www.arvixe.com/278.html) - I wanted to have a lot of video and audio. I didn't want to pay for a dedicated server. They advertise unlimited and I read a ton of user reviews on different hosts.
I called them and got the owner (Arvand). I asked him how much space I would actually be given and he said that if I got up around 15 or 20 GB's we'd need to go with a different plan.
I'm using around 10 GB's for the website now. I got Flow Player and make individual video and audio pages. You can look at the pages and see how they load. Look at dgswilson.com audio or video
For calling and talking to people I can't see how I could get a better host service. E mail is always funny because few people write like they talk...Anyway it's 4 or 5 bucks a month.
Tarzan2
01-25-2010, 02:03 AM
Perhaps you could use MC Media Player Download MC Media Player (http://www.mcmediaplayer.com/download/index.html) to stream your own from virtually any host. The classic version is free and can be used for commercial purposes.
Bernd
02-01-2010, 08:29 AM
Yes. You can produce as many videos as you wish. I have 8 right now and will continue to produce as my business needs them.;)
If have about 7000 Videos which I wan't to publish. Most of them between 30GB and 50GB. So I need about 30TB. That's possible too? You wrote it is unlimited!
sequencehosting
02-01-2010, 08:42 AM
If have about 7000 Videos which I wan't to publish. Most of them between 30GB and 50GB. So I need about 30TB. That's possible too? You wrote it is unlimited!
Hello,
You're going to need a dedicated server for that amount of Disk Space. Not to mention bandwidth.
Jack
slimwoman
02-01-2010, 11:10 AM
You can host 8000 videos if you need to. No limit. The size of your videos are not unlimited. I can get you in touch with who you need to speak with about bandwidth.
You can host 8000 videos if you need to. No limit. The size of your videos are not unlimited. I can get you in touch with who you need to speak with about bandwidth.
But the size should be very important?
sequencehosting
02-01-2010, 11:47 AM
You can host 8000 videos if you need to. No limit. The size of your videos are not unlimited. I can get you in touch with who you need to speak with about bandwidth.
There is a limit to everything whether it's Disk Space, Bandwidth, CPU, RAM, file size limit or file amoun limits.
There is a limit to everything whether it's Disk Space, Bandwidth, CPU, RAM, file size limit or file amoun limits.
Yes, that is why I am very sceptical to companies offering limited space, bandwith, sites etc, especially regarding video hosting.
Hello,
You're going to need a dedicated server for that amount of Disk Space. Not to mention bandwidth.
Jack
I mainly agree.
Related WPW thread:
http://www.webproworld.com/castle-breakroom-general-any-topic/73330-1tb-one-terabyte.html#post399083
A colocated solution with one or more servers with more than one Tb disk is perhaps cheapest / Gb.
Some years ago a Power Mac could be configured with 8 Tb diskspace. I don't know how big disks Mac offer today.
Bernd
02-04-2010, 04:31 AM
You can host 8000 videos if you need to. No limit. The size of your videos are not unlimited. I can get you in touch with who you need to speak with about bandwidth.
Do you really know what you are talking about?
Their website tells me this about video hosting (http://parsons.gogvo.com/shared-server-hosting.php):
ONE GIGABYTE (1024 MB) HOSTING PACKAGES START AT ($98.00 PER MONTH)
They habe 1024 Mb = 1 GB in their package, I wrote about 30TB. This is 30000 times that much!
The use of their video pruducer is free. That's all.