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A video hosting service allows individuals to upload video clip
Video clip

Video clips are short media clip of video, usually part of a longer piece.Video clips in digital format are often found on the internet where the massive influx of new video clips during 2006 was hailed as a new phenomenon having a profound impact on both the internet and other forms of Electronic media....
s to an Internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
 website. The video host will then store the video on its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view this video. The website, mainly used as the video hosting website, is usually called the video sharing website.

use many users do not have unlimited web space, either as a paid service
Paid Services

Paid Services are the not-free electronic commerce of digital services and information goods in digital media. Examples of digital media are for instance the world wide web or mobile media ....
, or through an ISP offering, video hosting services are becoming increasingly popular, especially with the explosion in popularity of blogs, forums, and other interactive pages.

The mass market for camera phones has increased the supply of user-generated video.






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A video hosting service allows individuals to upload video clip
Video clip

Video clips are short media clip of video, usually part of a longer piece.Video clips in digital format are often found on the internet where the massive influx of new video clips during 2006 was hailed as a new phenomenon having a profound impact on both the internet and other forms of Electronic media....
s to an Internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
 website. The video host will then store the video on its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view this video. The website, mainly used as the video hosting website, is usually called the video sharing website.

Impetus

Because many users do not have unlimited web space, either as a paid service
Paid Services

Paid Services are the not-free electronic commerce of digital services and information goods in digital media. Examples of digital media are for instance the world wide web or mobile media ....
, or through an ISP offering, video hosting services are becoming increasingly popular, especially with the explosion in popularity of blogs, forums, and other interactive pages.

The mass market for camera phones has increased the supply of user-generated video. Traditional methods of personal video distribution, such as making a DVD
DVD

DVD, also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc,"is a popular optical disc data storage device media format. Its main uses are video and data storage....
 to show to friends at home, are unsuited to the low resolution and high volume of camera phone clips. In contrast, current broadband
Broadband Internet access

Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just broadband, is high data rate Internet access?typically contrasted with Dial-up internet access over a 56k modem....
 Internet connections are well suited to serving the quality of video shot on mobile phones. Most people do not own web servers, and this has created demand for user-generated video content hosting, which the likes of YouTube
YouTube

YouTube is a Video hosting service website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005....
 are catering to.

Purpose of Video Hosts (for users)

  • Save on bandwidth
    Bandwidth (computing)

    In computer networking and computer science, digital bandwidth, network bandwidth or just bandwidth is a measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bit/s or multiples of it ....
     costs, often eliminating costs entirely
  • Creating a common place
  • Make a hassle-free experience, where uploading a video and streaming
    Streaming media

    Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by, and normally presented to, an End-user while it is being delivered by a streaming provider ....
     or embedding
    Compound document

    In computing, a compound document is a document type typically produced using word processor software, and is a regular text document intermingled with non-text elements such as spreadsheets, pictures, digital videos, digital audio, and other multimedia features....
     would normally require advanced programming knowledge. It is now commonly achieved through a web browser
    Web browser

    A Web browser is a application software which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music, games and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network....
    , with little or no programming experience.


Copyright issues

Wikipedia
Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a Free content, multilingualism encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki and encyclopedia....
 hosts around 200 videos in the Ogg
Ogg

Ogg is a free file format, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The Ogg format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming media and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia....
 format on its servers. Wikipedia actively discourages non-free videos and formats: videos added to Wikipedia are supposed to be freely available for reuse. This contrasts with video hosting services such as YouTube, which can hold copyrighted material, though some rights must be given up to such companies in return for the hosting.

Mobile video hosting


A more recent application of the video hosting services is in the Mobile Web
Mobile Web

The Mobile Web refers to the access to the World Wide Web using a mobile device such as Mobile phone, Personal digital assistant, and other portable gadgets connected to a public network....
 arena, where video and other mobile content
Mobile content

Mobile content is any type of media which is viewed or used on mobile phones, like ringtones, graphics, discount offers, games, and movies. As mobile phone use has grown since the mid 1990s, the significance of the devices in everyday life has grown accordingly....
 can be delivered to, and easily accessed by mobile devices. While video-hosting services such as YouTube
YouTube

YouTube is a Video hosting service website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005....
 have developed means by which video can be watched on mobile devices, mobile-oriented web-based frontends for video hosting services that possess equal access and capability to desktop-oriented web services have yet to be developed.

See also

  • List of video sharing websites
  • Comparison of video services
    Comparison of video services

    The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable Video hosting service. Please see the individual products' articles for further information....
  • Managed video as a service
    Managed video as a service

    Managed Video as a Service Managed Video as a Service is an example of the Software as a Service model of software deployment. In the case of MVaaS, video management software is hosted as a service provided to customers across the Internet....