No - you're right - Blip have earned loyalty with great features & service. Despite earlier praise for YT, I can see myself continuing to use Blip for personal videoblogging.
But according to their ToS, they prohibit pretty much any commercial use that's not creation of a Show: Content that has as its sole or primary purpose to advertise a particular product or service that, in the sole judgment of Blip.tv, does not otherwise have redeeming value to the community. Blip.tv may allow the uploading of some such content for a fee, at its sole discretion. Such advertising content may be treated differently than other content (i.e. through indications that it is an advertisement, or exclusion from some indices or searches). There's no way any commercial entity can let themselves use Blip to embed videos, for fear of having their account deleted. Sad, really - but I see why: it limits their content & bandwidth & storage costs to those producers who are more likely to add Blip's adverts to their videos. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv . On 8 Feb 2010, at 17:38, Heath wrote: > Oh, I just had to comment on this, for me I will always use Blip as > long as they are around and as long as they contiue to provide the > excellent customer service they have been known for. A few different > reasons why, one - when all the other video sites, including YT had > crappy TOS's, crappy customer service (not really sure that has > gotten better for the other services), poor quality, etc...Blip was > leading the way by offering Creative Commens, excellent customer > service (remember the blizzard that hit NY a few years ago and Mike > plowed his way to the office to get the service back up and running) > and they cared about the creators....to me that should mean > something... > > Now it doesn't mean blind loyality on my part or anyone's part as I > think you have to keep inovating and moving the ball forward. > > By no means do I mean that YT is not good, I mean there are a few > billion reasons why they are....I just happen to like Blip better > for the reasons above...that and to be a bit honest, Goggle already > has enough of my personal information.... > > Heath > http://heathparks.com > > --- In [email protected], Rupert Howe <rup...@...> wrote: > > > > I am finding fewer and fewer reasons to avoid YouTube. YouTube's > > quality now is as good as Blip - better than their flvs, in fact - > the > > new layout on their pages is good, and so are their sharing options. > > > > Get round the bad bits by turning off comments and ratings, and add > > &showinfo=0 to your embed code to remove the ugly text title & star > > rating from the embedded player. > > > > I just made a 1 minute profile video for my wife's business, and > > embedded it on her home page as a YouTube player. It looks good. You > > can see it at: > > http://londonalexandertechnique.co.uk/ > > > > Previously I would have used Blip for this, but they and Vimeo now > > prohibit you from publishing any videos which promote businesses. I > > think I'm going to be using YouTube a lot more from now on, for > > everything. > > > > Rupert > > http://twittervlog.tv > > > > On 6 Feb 2010, at 00:08, Jay dedman wrote: > > > > > > They don't make you an HD flash version but blip has always > > > supported > > > > any size file you want to put up there. You can just add a 1080p > > > file > > > > (along with lots of other formats) when you upload. > > > > > > Thats why blip is good. They are almost completely format > agnostic. > > > For instance, I use always blip when I need to post an mp3. > > > > > > Jay > > > > > > -- > > > http://ryanishungry.com > > > http://momentshowing.net > > > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > > > 917 371 6790 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
