Talk:Video hosting service

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[edit] Are we honestly suggesting that wikipedia is a video hosting service?

Seriously, this article is a joke. YouTube, Akamai and Wikipedia? There are hundreds of better video hosting services than these three suggestions. Google Video? Vitalstream? Ninesystems? Why is forbidden.co.uk and pro.forscene gravlab et al. even mentioned? These are regional obscure carriers, at best.

Deleting all of this as linkspam. This article needs to be deleted. (unsigned comment)

This is a stub for expanding. Why don't you add some serious hosting services in instead of / as well as the three you've deleted? Stephen B Streater 06:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Examples of video hosting services

It would be good to have some examples, within the context of WP:EL ie this is not a place to advertise and external links should only be included when they contain useful information about the subject. Here are some examples which spring to mind:

  • YouTube is probably the most popular at the moment. (Alexa rank 22)
  • Akamai Technologies is one of the most famous content caching companies. (Alex rank 8645)
  • FORscene, my company's own product, incorporates video hosting and is a European example. (Not registered in Alexa because of the use of iframes)

If there are other products which meet the notability guidelines, please add a relevant article and we'll add them in to this prototype list. Stephen B Streater 16:14, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

For comparison,

  • www.forbidden.co.uk, which makes FORscene, is currently ranked 414,314.
  • pro.forscene.net which serves FORscene has no Alexa data as professional users are not allowed to run Alexa. Each big production will typically upload about 2,500 minutes a day, compared with YouTube's 40,000 "clips". Productions run concurrently.
  • www.gravlab.com is currently ranked 879,401.

My feeling is there are quite a few video hosting companies between Akamai and Forbidden. The only place to include FORscene would be as an interesting addition to the article itself because of the unusual additional facilities it provides. Stephen B Streater 16:29, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I've added the FORscene ones in as they are relevant to WP videos, but other editors may not think this is important to the article, which covers a much bigger area. Stephen B Streater 16:42, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "See also" section

62.168.125.219 insists on adding three links to non-existing articles to the "See also" section. This defeats the whole purpose of this section, since readers can't see the articles. I don't want to hit my 3RR, so perhaps 62.168.125.219 will explain why we should redefine "See also" in this case. Haakon 10:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

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