StumbleUpon Launches StumbleVideo
StumbleUpon's social browsing application has been such a big success in the past couple years they decided expand. They just launched StumbleVideo which recommends videos based on what others voted as thumbs up and thumbs down.
Unlike StumbleUpon you don't need a toolbar to use StumbleVideo, all you have to do is go to their web page and hit the "stumble" button. Based on your interests it will try to show you videos that it thinks you will like. Once you watch a video you can then vote if you like or dislike the video, which then affects how many times others see that video when they hit the Stumble button.
The overall concept of StumbleVideo is great because it lets people watch videos from YouTube, MySpace and Google all in one place. From a business perspective it also gives them new opportunities with advertisers because in the future, they could potentially charge companies for each time their video is watched. At the current moment StumbleUpon has an advertising program that drives traffic to websites and it seems that it has been working out for them as well as the website owners who advertise with them.
[via: Mashable]
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- Practical Blogging, December 14, 2006
“StumbleUpon For Video - StumbleVideo” — StumbleUpon is an important source of traffic for my blogs, especially those that are geared to the consumer and not towards webmasters. So you can understand why my stumbling upon StumbleVideo today was rather exciting for me. Since my vlog has onl...
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- greg, December 14, 2006
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I covered the SU advertising option at my presentation an PubCon. In short, it's a great tool, and it's only .05 per visitor - that's a price that's tough to beat...
One of the guys in the audience at PubCon followed my advice and started using it. Check out his thoughts on it here.
