embedding videos on your website with revver

I like embedding videos on my paper airplanes site. I have from time to time used revver and used you tube for these videos and both have their pros and cons. Here is the step by step guide to revver embedding which I personally prefer.

The first thing you do is visit Revver.com and sign up to their service including payment details for having money sent to your paypal account. Once you have done this click on the UPLOAD video link on the left hand navigation panel. That will take you to the page below.

The great thing here that beats YouTube is that you can upload multiple videos at once (in this example I am uploading four planes). The uploader will then scroll through them in it's own time uploading them to Revver. This is great, since you can leave the computer, go to a different browser session and not have to keep going back in order to start the next upload as you do with YouTube. Once you have uploaded all the videos your "my video's section" will have a link at the bottom asking you to add meta data. This is great since you can go away and then reaccess your revver account from another computer (eg. at starbucks on wifi) to add your meta data. Below is an example of the Meta data for my Rapier Paper Airplane (this is actually editting the meta data not adding it first time around but the process of adding it is very similar).

Once this meta data is in place the Revver team will review the meta data and the video and approve it if they consider it ok. You receive messages in your my video hub page to let you know it has been approved. Below is the "my video's" hub page for me - a week after I started with Revver. As you can see they are really easy to browse.

If you then click on one of the videos revver then opens up the video you wish to view within the my videos section. Here I am viewing Origami Plane III. To the right of the III the icons in order mean "edit" "grab this video" "delete this video".

If you click on the green grab this video icon to the right of origami plane III you come to the page below where you get the code to insert into your HTML.

 

I find this process really easy, really intuitive and actually in a lot of ways a great deal better than YouTube where I have also hosted my videos (170k video views in a little over a month). The bonus of getting paid for the video views too is amazing and I only hope this site gets the support it needs to be huge. Stephen Colbert's show on the YouTube rip off is my favourite, I do believe my content is valuable and I should be paid for creating it. I like, no I love, the way Revver doesn't treat me as free fuel.

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[Micki Krimmel]

Alex, thanks so much for posting this and welcome to the Revver community! Please keep us posted with any feedback: Feedback(at)revver.com.

- Micki, Director of Community, Revver