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Reviewing HeySpread

One Wild Tribe — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:52:41 +0000

After trying to free service Vidmetrix, I looked around for another service that wouldn’t fail when uploading videos to multiple sites. I came across HeySpread.

HeySpread allows you to upload a video and choose from a list of sites you want to send the video to. I paid $50 for 1,000 credits and each upload costs one credit per video site. On my $50 I could upload happily for quite some time.

So I tried it out and successfully uploaded several videos to YouTube, Daily Motion, Metacafe, and Yahoo (there are more sites available, those are just the ones I chose). The upload and distribution was successful and I was very pleased overall with that part.

I enabled statistics for several of them, which costs 15 credits each time. The problem is HeySpread’s stats only include hits made after you enable the service so it doesn’t keep track of stats from videos you’d uploaded previously.

So I’ve got a pretty good team going. I use HeySpread to cheaply send my videos to the sites I choose, then I input those urls into Vidmetrix and track them there. That way I get stats from the life of the videos, nicely added up for me.

I recommend HeySpread’s video upload service and Vidmetrix’s tracking service but not HeySpread’s tracking service or Vidmetrix’s upload service.

Reviewing Vidmetrix

One Wild Tribe — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:54:15 +0000

Vidmetrix is a video distribution site where you can upload a video under 100 MB and have it sent automatically to your accounts on a list of major video sharing networks. You are also supposed to be able to track videos uploaded to a number of other networks. And it’s free.

Needless to say, I had high hopes for Vidmetrix, even though the site didn’t seem to have much information. I signed up for an account and inserted links for the four videos one of my companies had on YouTube. The next day I was able to see some pretty good statistics on views for all four videos. I liked that part.

I uploaded one video and selected to send it to all the networks offered (which include AOL Uncut, Daily Motion, Google Video, YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, Veoh and Yahoo Video). It successfully uploaded to Daily Motion and Google Video. It failed on all the others, with a message saying it would try again every few minutes until successful. After two days of seeing the same message, I gave up.

Right now, Vidmetrix has promise, it just doesn’t quite deliver yet. Once they work out their upload problems, it could be a very useful site for companies who want to push their videos across the web. In the meantime you can track links to videos you already have out there and get some useful information.