Megavideo is the self proclaimed Youtube Killer. They want you to stop using Youtube and to ONLY use Megavideo because they claim they love you more. Megavideo is on a mission to become the words leading video sharing site and has its goals set very high.
Megavideo does have the traffic and the gimmicks but as far as marketing tools go they are seriously lacking. However Megavideo supports 6 languages and is in multiple countries. This site is more based on usability and not marketability for your videos.
Quantcast estimates Megavideo.com with around 226,206 monthly unique visitors to their site. Not a bad number and according to Alexa traffic metrics you can see that this number has recently jumped up and is gaining some serious momentum.
The videos that make the home page and that become popular on Megavideo are not commercial videos and our study showed that the majority of the videos had to do with car and truck accidents, humans doing strange things and Asian content videos. On this site standard social marketing titles work well, top 10 lists and sensationalized content will help make your video popular.
Megavideo is lacking in marketing tools but has a few features that are worth mentioning. Megavideo.com has a toolbar that you can install on IE and Firefox that allows resumable uploads and batch uploads to the site that make uploading a large amount of videos to this site very easy.
The site also comes with a robust video manager to help you sort, edit and manage your large video upload list. Another aspect that makes Megavideo unique is that it allows you to download videos from the site which is typically somethign that sites like Youtube frown upon.
Adbrite has partnered with Megavideo to allow you to get paid for your views and video downloads. Megavideo also offers a robust rewards program which is great for Generation Y’ers who spend a large amount of time watching video.
Marketing tools I found and use are:
- Import function to turn a Youtube link into a Megavideo link
- Invite to subscribe link allows you to subscribe by tag, user and profile
- Visitor exchange allows you to get equal amount of visitors sent to your content that you send to other content
- Get unlimited amount of space for video uploads
- HTTP and FTP file fetching capabilities
- Their rewards system is great for companies who submit video or for clients looking to make an roi off of hiring a company to do video syndication
As for profile functions there are not many advanced functions to use. However the site can be used to gain good SEO value for videos submitted and can help generate revenue for you or the client who hired you to submit videos for them.
Joe Whyte is the President of HybridSEM.com, which offers quality Internet Marketing solutions at competitive rates, from social media marketing and reputation management to SEO and PPC.
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Jabz on Feb 2, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Who would have thought that Kim Schmitz makes it into the search engine journal…incredible.
Ryan Dunn on Mar 23, 2008 at 9:19 pm
You are wrong!
They do not have there goals set very high!
they offer up to 5GB of upload per video file with no playtime limit!
They are faster and have more servers.
There design is better.
They already have more uploads per 5 minutes.
Fair enough youtube is the worlds 2nd best website and megavideo is the worlds 40th best website.
But Youtube was always a high rank.
Megavideo started off as being the 10th worst website in the world!.
Ranks by alexa.com
But Mega the people who own megavideo also own megaupload which is the worlds 14th best website and is growing rapidly!
Two weeks ago megaupload.com was the worlds 2710 worst website!
give megavideo a year and it will be higher!
you see all of the illegal movie uploads and legal users alike use it for its sheer power and upload of 5gb and theye will never delete a video.
But there is a website that will outgrow the both of them!
supernovatube.com
If you upload copyrighted material here it will never get deleted!
The world will grow to love that!
Report by dunnsearch.net
thanks for reading
travis mccormk on Apr 22, 2008 at 6:29 pm
well first of all youtube has more of known face to alot of people in america. but one thing is fore sur is that megavideo might just never gain any international fame. like yesterday i was talking to a friend and mentioned megavideo.com and he though it was a porno video site,just shows on how mistaken people are about the site. but one thing that just sounds wrong about megavideo.com is that there are popular videos on youtube that are being downloaded and uploaded onto megavideo, and the owner of the video says that they diden’t upload anything onto megavideo. and on megavideo someone else is taking all the credit for that video which isen’t theres. I could see it in the future,megavideo gets shut down for all that stolen copyrighted material.
Joe Whyte on Apr 22, 2008 at 7:44 pm
I agree, megavideo isnt well known however it is very heavily trafficked and does have a very large audience. Can you post the links you found regarding mega video taking popular videos on youtube and then someone uploading them to megavideo and taking credit? I don’t agree with anyone ever doing that and it would be great to post that if you have it.
Thanks,
Joe
Joe Whyte on Apr 22, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Ryan,
Usually when a new website is created it has a horrible alexa rank. Can you link your list here of the worst websites and who accredited that?
I was simply going off of alexas globally top rated sites. I see more pirated videos on sites like http://www.tudou.com/ which is a popular video sharing site in china. Because they are not governed by our privacy and distrubtion laws they can rebroadcast videos without worry about retribution by anyone in the united states. I am not seeing the same thing on megavideo.com that I am on http://www.tudou.com/.
You could be right I just have not seen what you are talking about. Can you post some examples?
Thanks,
Joe Whyte
ryan on Jun 15, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Two words for vice president, obama: Denzel Washington.
ryan on Jun 15, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Superstar go far.
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