If you want to get your video seen, really seen, then chances are you upload it to a couple of different video sharing sites. But who has the time to do that?

We wrote about TubeMogul in July, a site that allows you to upload your video to a bunch of sites at once, and now we've come across Hey!Spread another site that will do all your dirty work for you.

Hey!Spread is from the same company that created the Hey!Watch file converter. Hey!Spread can upload video to Sclipo, Sumo, Sevenload, YouTube, Google, Dailymotion, Blip, Metacafe, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace, Vimeno, Revver, Veoh, Vsocial, Photobucket, and Putfile. You give the site your log-in creds for the sites you're interesting in uploading your video to, upload a video file, press start and then Hey!Spread will convert your video appropriately for each site you specified and upload it, sending you an email when the job is done.

Besides being able to upload your video to tons of places at once Hey!Spread can also watermark your videos for you and can take a video you already have on YouTube and distribute it to other sites using the videos YouTube URL.

Hey!Spread was free until January of this year and is now charging users $.05 per video site it uploads your video to. Depending on your video needs, it's ability watermark, pull from YouTube, and upload to twenty sites instead of TubeMoguls 13 may make it worth the expense. TubeMogul is currently free.

Today marks the 1 year anniversary since video sharing site Revver emerged from beta status. And by some remarkable coincidence, the site has also paid out exactly $1 million to content creators and distributors in that year.

While we're certain they're fudging the numbers by just a whee bit (come on, they probably hit the $1 million mark weeks ago, or are going to in a few weeks), it's still a pretty nifty demonstration that user generated video can be profitable for web publishers and users alike. Revver splits advertising revenue 50/50 with video producers.

Users who embed Revver clips on other sites can get 20 percent of advertising revenue. You need to earn $20 before Revver will send you a check, but apparently 25,000 people have done that so far. And Revver is presenting Doogtoons creator Doug Bresler with an "honorary check" for the $1 millionth dollar.

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Ever look out across the expanse of cubicles filling your office workspace and wonder how much cooler it must be to work at a place like Digg, Revver, or Twitter? Wonder no more.

Office Snapshots is a blog with a purpose: to show you the insides of web 2.0 and technology company offices. It's kind of one of those "why didn't we think of it" blogs. The folks behind the site aren't running all over the globe with cameras. They're just taking publicly available images from sources like Flickr and showing you what's behind those closed doors.

The photo above shows the office of Connected Ventures in New York. Connected Ventures runs a number of sites including College Humor and Busted Tees. Company co-founder Zach Klein took the photo of this office, which you may recognize from a wildly popular video of some workplace shenanigans at the company HQ.

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Sonific, the Web service that creates SongSpots, embedded music streaming widgets that can be inserted into most Web pages, blogs or community sites, has just launched a new angle on the application - a music network that will allow bands, songwriters and labels to upload their own music.

Since its beta launch, Sonific has shown itself to be a pretty cool web app, but the service suffered from a serious lack of content. Although Sonific signed up hip labels such as Cooking Vinyl, Ninja Tunes, V2 and Nettwerk, its catalog didn't quite have the breadth necessary to give the service mass market appeal. The new network features might well prove to be a savior for Sonific, adding both content and an army of users who will promote the service as they promote their music.

Sonific CEO Gerd Leonhard compared the new networked service to the massively popular community generated video sites such as YouTube and Revver, saying that the Sonific Network would be able to democratize music distribution:

Music production and music distribution have already become democratized because of new, disruptive technologies, and now Sonific.net will democratize music promotion, as well. Just like any visual content creator can already virally distribute his videos via YouTube, Revver or VideoEgg, a record label or artist can now use Sonific's SongSpots platform to make their music widely available as a full-length audio stream that can be embedded into any website -- the power of content syndication is finally available at a click of the mouse.

Given the recent storm of controversy surrounding the unauthorized uploading of content on YouTube, the launch of the Sonific Network means that Sonific now needs to navigate the legal minefield associated with user-generated content. Speaking to DownloadSquad, Leonhard said that, since the registration process for users was fairly detailed, filtering for unauthorized content would be done on a manual basis. That said, the company is in the process of investigating technology that would allow for automated content filtering.

SongSpots can already be embedded into most major Web community sites, but Leonhard said that Sonific was working on new developments that would provide for further integration and new features including a facility to allow for the use of the widgets for podcasting.

Answering the challenge brought by sites such as Revver, Google's YouTube is looking to launch a revenue sharing model for top posters on the popular video sharing web site. While YouTube is still the most dominant force in online video sharing, sites like Revver have attracted top video posters by offering to share in revenue from advertising on the site. However, unlike Revver's service, YouTube's revenue sharing won't be available to all users - only those that Google feel are worthy of entering into deal with.

According to a post on the official YouTube blog, Google has already chosen top YouTube celebs such as LisaNova, renetto and HappySlip to share in the cash that's rolling in from advertising revenues on the site.

But while the number of posters that will share in the profits is currently small, YouTube says that new posters who create original material and build a substantial audience will get an invitation to the revenue sharing program. In other words: if you have a video camera and a good idea, now seems like a pretty good time to up your game.

YouTube is the de facto standard for video sharing on the web, but there are a lot of other options out there. But other features aside, which one offers the best video quality? While Life Goggles doesn't actually answer that question for you, it does gives you side-by-side comparisons of eight major video sharing sites' embedded players so you can judge for yourself. I've been squinting at them for five minutes and can't decide on a clear winner myself, but I will say that Vimeo's scrubber (i.e. seek bar) is by far the best. If you want to put your videos online and quality is an issue, you should definitely check it out. Life Goggles also has a couple handy guides on putting your videos online.

Lately I've been enjoying "House of Cosbys" on YouTube, but I know there are a bunch of video sharing sites out there. DV Guru shakes down 10 contenders, ranking appeal, interface, editing, and sharing for each. I'd never heard of Revver, which is pretty much like Google Video but with a lot more suck (and not tied to a market leading search engine). I'm a fan of Videoegg as well, since you can post your vid on ebay easily. So I should say my wife is a fan of Videoegg too...

I've seen a number of sites that let you directly download videos from sites like Google and YouTube, but KeepVid beats the rest with its nice design, easy-to-remember URL, and its ability to download not only from the big guys but also with about three dozen other video sites like iFilm, Vimeo, Putfile, Revver, and MySpace. It's also got a handy FAQ that offers some help in dealing with those pesky FLV files and streaming (mms://) videos.

[Via Lifehacker]