Job for today, researching usage and uses of video in social media.
The number of videos viewed on Facebook is up an astounding 1800% this year and is now #3 video site behind YouTube and Hulu. - http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/
Every minute over 20 hours worth of video are uploaded to YouTube:-http://www.viralblog.com
With over 2 Billion views a day YouTube has a massive audience and with the average person spending 15 minutes on the site they are a captive audience:-http://www.viralblog.com
Facebook now contains an app called videobox which allows you to publish videos directly onto your facebook page:-http://www.facebook.com/apps/
Sites like livestream have partnered with social media sites to create a truly interactive experience. You can now tweet and share your live video directyly from livestream and the live broadcast is viewable within the twitter timeline (currently depending on browser). Livestream also offers a chat section with your video. If a user logs into the chat with a twitter account, the chat message will be tweeted along with the video feed allowing for a truly social experience and allowing the audience to grow.
Quite a lot of video embed sites offer social media buttons on their players, this is a key way of getting your media out there. It is important to make it as easy as possible to share your content. The web is supposed to be a freeflowing experience, any lag in the chain could put people off.
AMENDMENT:-
ok spend much of yesterday( after looking into social video) looking at the livestream api and managed to develop a player which looks similarly to that of the idrop players silverstream have developed. this is important fror the iphone multiplayer iv been developing.
After realising the embed capabilities of twitter I was thinking wether or not facebook would have any connections with livestream. Then i found Livestream had an app within facebook which allows you to embed a channel into facebook pages. this allows users to view your live stream, share it within facebook allowing you to broadcast to you user base.
