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ReelSEO Video Marketing: Video Blogging Gets Easy – Wordpress Steps up with VideoPress

  • Travis Campbell · 7 months ago
    Christopher-

    Thanks for the update, it's about time they get rolling with video :-) It will be interesting to see how reliable the service is, and if they get real traction in the marketplace, not to mention how competitors will respond. Embedding videos in WP blogs has been a bit of a pain for far too long.

    I see you have a YouTube embed video link, I will test it out, and see how it work.

    Keep us posted on your secret project too :-)
    [youtube dPFEdrx0pgA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPFEdrx0pgA youtube]
  • Mark Robertson · 7 months ago
    It works - the video embed... Although, I would prefer a video more related to the subject matter... Oh well, at least you got to try it out... =/

    Thanks Travis.
  • Mark Robertson · 7 months ago
    It works - the video embed... Although, I would prefer a video more related to the subject matter - that is video blogging...... Oh well, at least you got to try it out... =/

    Thanks Travis.
  • Travis Campbell · 7 months ago
    Mark-

    Yes, I was hoping for a remove or resize option, didn't intend for it to take *that* much space. Feel free to remove it, no worries. Nice job again on the post. -Travis
  • Mark Robertson · 7 months ago
    Not a problem. Actually watched the whole video and found it very interesting... Sounds like you are doing some great things.... We should connect sometime. Im leaving it cause it doesnt hurt anything ;-)
  • Josh · 7 months ago
    That's phenomenal! I know several artists and animators that will love utilizing this for their freelance sites.
  • RussHenneberry · 7 months ago
    Good stuff -- but I am a bit confused... is this available only to those on Wordpress.com hosted blogs or to self-hosted blogs as well?
  • Mark Robertson · 7 months ago
    Russ, it is available via the upgrade only on wordpress.com hosted blogs. For self-hosting and for MU installations, it requires a dedicated transcoding server and a file server. Im looking into what these may take and how easy it might be to create a plugin for those that have self-hosted blogs. Kind of a bummer - Mark
  • Travis Campbell · 7 months ago
    Ahh, that is important... May still be useful for those who prefer not to host their own Wordpress blog. Hopefully they will continue to improve it going forward.
  • Christophor Rick · 6 months ago
    But if you have a hosted WP blog and the upgrade you can then take the embed code and drop it on any site just like you can with YouTube. So that's not really so bad as you could still only pay $5 a month and drop the player code where you need it...That's what I was trying to get across as well in the article.
  • Brett Schaefer · 6 months ago
    Wow...this is a really impressive addition to the Wordpress stockpile of plugins. I really appreciate the flexibility of this new tool since it's right in step with the direction of the current technology. Can't really complain about the price either. Thanks for the information.