Hosting videos on your own site can be problematic. Videos use up valuable space, eat up your bandwidth allowance, and load times can be slow and ponderous. For this and other reasons most website owners upload videos to a third party video site . Then they embed the videos onto their own website or share them via social media. The …
Despite plenty of innovation in the field, it seems impossible for any online video platform to dethrone YouTube. In January 2012, Techcrunch calculated numbers reported by YouTube and Reuters to find that Internet users watched 4 billion videos on YouTube per day. When you average it out, that means each viewer watched 23 hours of YouTube videos in one month. …
So you want to upload videos to your website. For space, load-time and other reasons, the better option is uploading them to a third-party video site and embedding them on your own site.
A comScore Video Metrix report found that 180 million Americans watched an average of 18 hours of online video content in August. That’s what the company called “a record 6.9 billion viewing sessions.”
There are many ways YouTube can advertise your website and help you bring in more customers.