{"id":836,"date":"2008-03-22T02:05:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T10:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/22\/videoegg-has-a-great-fall\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T02:05:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T10:05:58","slug":"videoegg-has-a-great-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/videoegg-has-a-great-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"VideoEgg Has A Great Fall…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…and all the King’s horses and all the King’s men … <\/strong><\/big><\/font><\/p>\n

Welp. Here I had been recommending VideoEgg<\/a> as a possible solution to all my students\/trainees, because it offered a dead-bang easy way to upload and host your videos, the EULA wasn’t as onerous as YouTube, and they were actually trying to incorporate a shared-revenue video ad model to their services.
<\/a>
Looks like that was a little bit more than they could chew. <\/p>\n

Imagine my surprise and delight when I read this: <\/p>\n

Why and when is my.videoegg.com being decommissioned?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As you know, resources at technology startups are limited and it is in
\nour best interest to focus on the core of our business at this time.
\nWith a wide range of video destination sites available on the market,
\nwe feel that we
\nare leaving you in good hands.<\/p>\n

The last day for my.videoegg.com is May 31, 2008<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks a pantload, guys. I have a couple dozen videos that I’ve embedded on this blog and on other sites around the web, that I laboriously uploaded, tagged and verified with VideoEgg. And in less than two weeks, they all go bye-bye? They give some real dingbat directions as to how to get your videos off their site – “Just click the “Download This Video” link. Again, thanks. No batch processing? I get to do this one after the other? Happy happy joy joy. <\/p>\n

What I can salvage from this dog’s breakfast is the lesson that internet companies come and go … mostly go … especially in the online video space … and that you have to really keep an eye on your content. You can use the sharing sites for non-mission-critical clips, but the very nature of web startups means that one day, as in the instant case here, all your content could go “poof!” Which is a Bad Thing for a newspaper site. I had been hoping to offer the fledgling web operations in places like Kiev, Colombia, Russia, heck, smalltown America, with a good solution to the revenue vs. bandwidth cost problem of hosting news video clips, aka the “Be Careful What You Wish For” case study of what having a viral video hit can do to the bill from your ISP at the end of the month. <\/p>\n

They do recommend Vimeo<\/a> (which looks a little cheesy), Blip.tv<\/a> (which violates Rule #1 of a multimedia site by blaring obnoxious sound the second the page is loaded), and of course, good ol’ drinking-from-the-firehose, All-Your-Base-Belong-To-Us YouTube<\/a>. Guess I’m going to have to start pushing the revenue model offered by Revver<\/a>… even if by the time you get to #18 of their top 20 most-viewed of all time<\/a>, you’re dropping below a million views. Hey, what can I say? I’ve always had a soft spot for the underdog. <\/p>\n

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…and all the King’s horses and all the King’s men … Welp. Here I had been recommending VideoEgg as a possible solution to all my students\/trainees, because it offered a dead-bang easy way to upload and host your videos, the EULA wasn’t as onerous as YouTube, and they were actually trying to incorporate a shared-revenue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}