Viddler

Many video services only provide one way to get your files online. But what if you want to upload large video files? What if you want to upload multiple video files? What if you have to upload video on an unreliable internet connection? What if you just want the most simple video uploading possible? Viddler has a variety of tools to accomodate these needs and more. Watch the video above to learn about our Simple Uploader, Batch Uploader, and FTP uploading functionality. In addition, all users now have access to our Resumable Uploader (demonstrated below).

Happy uploading!

The Web is incredibly social. Social media has provided a platform for anyone to have a voice on anything. We now have the ability to express our every thought on any topic we can wildly imagine. The reality is that there are people out there that will not only listen, they will interact.

“I’m with Viddler because of the tagging.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

What are In-Video tags?

Viddler provides a really easy platform for people to interact with videos. Transforming the video watching experience into an interactive experience for users is what sparks conversation and ultimately engages interest. Viddler provides a couple tagging tools to make this a reality:

Time Tags – label specific points with comments, keywords, or a link on the time line in relation to the content being played at that moment. You can even use a video in the tag! Showing a product in your video? Have a link to the product landing page appear in the time line.

User Comments – viewers have ability to create comments tags within the video, also displayed on the time line. Viewers can spark conversation within your video based on your content. Video owner has the choice to allow user comments or not.

Tags are represented by dots on the video time line.  White dots stand for comments, and black dots stand for tags. Comments are also cataloged below the video for easy access and tracking. Survey the conversation and than jump right in!

Interaction is Key

In-video tags are a perfect tool for sparking conversation and interaction within a video. With Viddler, video has now become social. A meeting place for people to not only view content, but to discuss content. An experience for potential customers to not only be informed on your content, but given easy access to the place of action. The ability to interact with the video and navigate based on keywords.  Create a video tag to let your viewers know a little extra information on that exact topic.   Whether it is for personal or professional use, tagging is a versatile feature.  Tagging creates dimensions in the video experience and open’s the floor for discussion. This interaction is what ultimately will engage an audience.

Who says realtors and mortgage professionals can’t be rock stars? Phil Osborne and Ken Unangst certainly don’t. They’re the creators and hosts of a variety of real estate-focused media at Lehigh Valley Homes TV. Phil and Ken are using Viddler to reclaim the real estate business in their local market by making videos that are helpful, honest, authentic, and entertaining. I had the pleasure of hanging out with them for a day last week, and we talked about the changing landscape of local business and what they’re doing to contribute. Watch the video above to see how this gnarly duo is using Viddler to set a new standard for how small businesses should engage with their local communities.

Say you saw our new low pricing and decided to sign up for a Viddler business account. First of all, way to go! I like you already. Second, you should probably familiarize yourself with that new account of yours. After all, the two of you are going to be spending a lot of time together. Whaddya say you guys and get to know each other a little better? In the help video embedded above, I get you deep inside your business account and teach you how to press all the right buttons.

And be sure to check out the Viddler Help section for more video walkthroughs, as well as help articles and tutorials. It’s a great resource for learning all of Viddler’s features and unleashing the true potential of your account.

It is an exciting time at Viddler.  Our team is working hard in order to provide businesses with the best video service and experience at the lowest price.

We are happy to announce that we have upgraded our Business Services pricing structure.  The minimum monthly bandwidth has been doubled!  We will now be providing you with 100 GB of bandwidth for the same low price of $100/per month.  This new pricing will take effect on April 12^th, 2011, and will be effective for all current Business users. We have also lowered our per GB overage rate for the times you use more than your monthly minimum.  If you currently have custom pricing, your plan will not change.

We’re really happy to be able to make this change and make online video even more affordable for businesses around the world.  We will constantly be looking to improve our pricing whenever possible to benefit the growth of your business. If you have any questions about this pricing change you can contact our customer service team and they’ll be glad to answer them for you.

Our current subscriptions product has been updated with a few upgrades from user requested features which are listed below:

Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly Subscriptions

We have added the ability to set your subscriptions to daily and yearly along with the already existing capability of weekly and monthly.

Easily Reorder Subscriptions

You can now easily drag and drop subscription sets into the order you want them to appear in your store. Just simply move your subscriptions and we will remember where to display them. It is seriously as easy as drag, drop, and done.

Hide Subscription Sets

You now have the ability to hide new and already existing subscriptions. If you want to hide a set at anytime just set it to unpublished and it will be hidden from the front-end users.

Go ahead and try it out.

Every single day we’re seeing new businesses begin to see the benefits of online video and many are using Viddler to help them take advantage of this exciting new medium.

One of the questions that many newcomers have is: “What if our videos become popular, can you handle our traffic?” To this we ultimately say, in the style of Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men…

Let me explain why and back it up with some numbers. Since our launch in late-2006 Viddler has been built for speed and scale. Our systems, software, and website have always been made with these two underlying requirements in mind. Even when we only had a few customers we knew that, one day, our customers would need to serve millions upon millions of impressions without ever noticing a hiccup in speed.

And for nearly 5 years now this has happened many, many times over. Only 6 months after we launched our website we were serving a million impressions per day (I remember freaking out in San Francisco when I found out).

Today we have thousands of business customers, both big and small, many of which are very high traffic websites like FailBlog, Engadget, and Gawker. We’re now in the business of providing videos to millions upon millions of viewers daily.

Here are some interesting stats… We see over 133 people pressing play at the same time. That may not sound like a lot at first, but imagine this happening 24hours a day / 7days a week. At times we’re serving over 1,500 requests per second which includes serving videos to desktop computers, mobile phones, tablet devices like the iPad, and TVs all over the globe. Oh, and let’s not forget the encoding of many thousands of videos per day into multiple formats.

We’re very proud of Viddler and what we are able to do for our customers on a daily basis. We take great pride in being able to serve both the very high traffic websites as well as the small businesses that want to use online video to advertise their business and serve their customers. We’re constantly investing in improvements of our own platform. We’ve just recently made our biggest investment in the history of our company in architecture that we will be bringing live later this year (more on this soon).

Yes, we can handle your traffic. And we’d love to help.

Congratulations to awesome folks over at Some Kind of Awesome. They’ll be receiving a brand new iPad 2 for winning SXSW Represent!, our latest video contest. Stay tuned to the Viddler Blog for more contests, or run one of your own using our brand new video contest manager.