What is Video Hosting?
Video Hosting is a web hosting service which allows its visitors to upload videos on a website/forum. Anyone visiting this webpage can have a look at all the uploaded videos and rate and comment on these, making it a very interactive forum. This is a very current issue and two extremely popular video hosting websites are YouTube and MySpace.
Video hosting is perfect if you don't want to spend any money on web hosting since most video hosts are free to join. Since millions of people visit video hosting sites like Youtube and MySpace on a daily basis it's a great opportunity to get ones opinion across in a simple manner. These big sites make their money through advertising, enabling free registration for the vistors.
Who uses Video Hosting?
Nowadays it isn't only private persons who see the benefits of video hosting. You can find evrything from the latest music videos to the Presidential debates at these forums. Every day thousands of videos are added by people all over the world and millions are watching.
Big Industry
As the popularity of Video Hosting grew, so did the big companies desire to be a part of the hype. Business genius Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace for the tidy sum of $580 million dollars and Google acquired YouTube for the colossal amount of 1.65 billion dollars. Good deal or not, it got noticed and the popularity of these forums are steadily increasing.
Social Network
These forums are not only made for single purpose of uploading videos. It's also a way of creating a social network and express oneself. As a visitor, and member, you can find people sharing the same interest as you and become online friends. When creating your own page "within" the forum you're able to customize and adjust it after your personality. Background, music, photos and of course videos can all be added. This is the new way of networking and it seems as it's here to stay.
