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Video matters But which hosting service to use?

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Thanks for sharing. Since youtube is blocked in China(mainland), I suggest using video service like Youku and Tudou, which should support high quality video, too.

Since I've been working in an angel investment company in China, after dealing with a lot of startupers, I found most of them haven't realized how big huge potential promption value video.

Thanks for the info. We have tried Youku and Tudou on https://railscats-china.com but the embedding quality is bad. Will see whether there are plus account on those services.

I think advertisement is still a problem. You might not want your users watch the other AD. :p

exactly, doesn't youtube have AD?

I think Youtube doesn't have AD for embed player by default at least for now. :)

It does for sure

Youtube also has the advantage of discoverable. The downside is that you don't "own" the comments. If someone puts in a bad comment everyone else will see.

I'll give SublimeVideo a look.. seems interesting

I tried a bit SublimeVideo, it seemed a bit slow in mainland China, not so sure about this, but clearly the SublimeVideo website takes ages to load here.

I finally gave it up.

SublimeVideo is what RailsCasts using now. So you should be very familiar with how it works, :)

Wistia sounds very interesting. What's the point of knowing how audience is watching? What are the metrics you want to measure?

You might be interesting in when your users quit from the video. That can help you optimize the video or your product. And it aslo can give where the audiences from.

High quality matters most actually, video platform is a social community as well which most people don't realize it is

It really takes time for the god to realize the value of your business.

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