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.

Distributing video online and want to save yourself a ton of time? TubeMogul makes it easy to upload to a number of popular video sharing sites such as YouTube, Myspace, Google Video, Yahoo Video, Revver (our personal fave) and Metacafe.

In addition to a simple one stop upload location, TubeMogul also helps you track your video views across all those sites in one convenient location.

If it could only write, direct and shoot the videos for you, you'd be set.

Video-sharing site DailyMotion is making a major push in the United States. Like pretty much anything else on the internet, it's not exactly off limits to US users right now, but the bulk of the site's audience is currently in France, where the company is located.

So what do these big new plans for US domination entail? The company plans to offer professional video along with user-generated content, include contextual advertising, and reward the top content producers with cash.

We can expect to hear announcements of partnerships with content producers soon. And it wouldn't be surprising to see some MTV and VH1 content soon, since it looks like a number of folks on the programming team have backgrounds working for those music networks.

Of course, a US push also means something else: US lawsuits. One of the reasons DailyMotion is relatively popular in the states is that it's easy to find copyright-infringing content. DailyMotion is crawling with full length feature films and television programs. It'll be interesting to see if the site takes steps to reduce the number of illegally uploaded clips -- and if it can make headway in the US market without those clips.

[via TechCrunch]

Mixercast is a web based application currently in alpha that allows you to take video, photos, and sound off of your computer or websites like YouTube and Flickr and create embeddable players to display them.

Creating your Mizercast is done much like creating a DVD in iDVD. You upload images into the designer and then drag and drop them where you want them to be in your MIxercast. There are tons of pre-made templates to choose from with places built-in for your media to be added. For advanced users theres a deisgner option taht gives you a little more control over your Mixercast deisgn than you get with a typical template.

The site will currently allow you to upload off of your computer, download pictures from a stock photo site, and record a video with your webcam, as well as upload video from from YouTube, MySpace, and Flickr with support for others like Facebook, Shutterfly, and eBay on the way.

Once you're done creating your Mixercast you can email it to friends, post it directly to your MySpace Blogger or Meebo page, or take the embed code and embed it on your own webpage. If you have a lot of images to share this is a fun and easy way to do it.

[Via GigaOm]

Late last year TiVo announced a partnership with One True Media that would allow customers to share content from their TiVo boxes with other TiVo users. Want to show the home movies to grandma without lugging the tape all the way over to her house? TiVo's got you covered.

The service officially launched today and here's how it works:

1. Upload your photos and videos to One True Media's website
2. Create a personal TiVo channel code
3. Share that code with friends and family
4. They can add your channel to their internet-connected TiVo and your content will show up in their now-playing list.

Theoretically, you should be able to upload more than home movies. But since the content will be sitting on a One True Media server, there's little chance of a Viacom lawsuit for two reasons. First, One True Media might police the site and remove any copyrighted material (I don't know if this is the case, I'm just guessing). And second, the only people who will have access to the videos you upload are people you give your channel code out to. This isn't YouTube.

There's a free beta period for the next month. After that, you'll have to cough up at least $4 per month or $40 per year to use this new feature.

If you find yourself emailing large files frequently then you can save yourself tons of time with Tubes.

Tubes is a application designed to simply file sharing on the web that works similar to an IM program for your files. In order to share content with a friend or coworker you merely need to invite them to have access to your tube and drop the files you want to share in. Once you grant tube access to a particular person then an image of your Tube shows up on their desktop and files dropped from your desktop into the Tube are instantly be accessible to others who have Tube access.

This is awesome for those of that have work with others on projects and have to trade files constantly giving everyone an easy place to put the files where everyone else working on a project can have access to them. Tubes is a PC only application and can be downloaded for free from the Tube's website.

Just two weeks after they ordered YouTube to take down thousands of videos, Viacom has reportedly struck a deal with another online video site, Joost. A huge point of the deal being that Joost claims to be able to provide copyright protection that YouTube could not for their video. While no financial details of the deal were disclosed you can be sure that Viacom is more than likely walking away with a pretty big chunk of ad revenue as well.

Joost is a video site from the makers of Skype and KaZaa that mimics a television station more than a video sharing site. User created videos will not be shown on the site in order to make way for videos by Warner and now apparently Viacom. Last week the site announced the availability of a new Mac client and they have recently announced deals to show National Geographic documentaries, classic cartoons, films from IndieFlix, and much more.

Joost is still in private beta and is only available for invited beta testers. You can apply to be a Joost beta tester here. Beta accounts are currently pretty scarce. I applied almost a month ago and still haven't been granted clearance.

[via TechCrunch]

Democracy Player version 0.9.5 has been officially released, introducing a host of new improvements and enhancements since the 0.9.2 release back in November of 2006. Here's a brief highlight of what to look for:

• Simpler, more minimal interface
• New 'Share' menu on each item allows user to email a video or post to VideoBomb, del.icio.us, Digg, or Reddit
• VLC 0.8.6 on Windows version that powers Democracy has been upgraded with improved Flash video support
• Video downloads are now stored in folders by channel for better organization
  
• New pause and resume download functions
• Improved BitTorrent performace
• Drop-down menu feature for auto-download for individual channels
• Automatic thumbnail generation on OS X for videos lacking thumbnails

The application is immediately available in all PC, Mac, and Linux flavors. Of course, the team still urges users to keep an eye open for any potential bugs that might be lurking about and fill out a bug report where necessary. Anyway, the program is looking great thus far and this upgrade will be worth the download. Check out the full list of improvements at the Democracy blog.

Although VodPod has been around since at least December of last year, I have not stumbled upon the video sharing site until today, after they recently launched a brand new widget that allows users to embed multiple videos in a single player. Quite frankly, this is pretty awesome. Using VodPod's service, not only can you leech videos from other websites such as YouTube, Google Video, blip.tv, and others, you can host these videos under custom collections, or 'pods', on the Vodpod website.

Using their new blog badge feature, you can then create a totally separate, self-contained video player including these same videos from multiple sources. Meta craziness! So, you know those folks who love to post a billion YouTube videos to a single webpage, essentially making navigation of said site something of a chore? Well, forget about that now. These multi-video embeddable players automatically update when users add new videos to their pod. In addition to the multi-video player, Vodpod introduced a similarly useful customizable sidebar widget and bookmarklet for instant video adding. Anyway, I'm very satisfied with what I see at VodPod so far, to say the least. To get an idea of what these "pods" and multi-video widgets look like, check out my own personal pod, which I whipped up this morning. And here's a sample of the embeddable widget in action, posted on a Wordpress blog.

EDIT: Vodpod doesn't 100% officially support Revver as of right now, so errors do pop up from time to time using Revver videos in conjunction with the service, as you might encounter... (Though that problem should be corrected in a few days, I've been told.)

Azureus, makers of the open source, cross-platform BitTorrent client of the same name, have launched Zudeo, a new video sharing site in the YouTube mold, but based on BitTorrent technology. That fact could either be its success or its downfall. Its downfall because BitTorrent does not lend itself to streaming, so a video must be downloaded in its entirety before being viewed. Its success because it allows them to serve videos of much higher quality without spending a fortune on bandwidth. Unlike most video-sharing sites, when you click on a video download link in Zudeo, you're prompted to install a special Zudeo version of the Azureus client, and then whenever you want to watch a video on Zudeo, the link will open in the client and begin downloading. Within the client you can browse and search the entire site as well as upload your own videos.

In its current form, Zudeo is not awe-inspiring. The interface is slick and polished, far moreso than I expected, but having to install a desktop client, though made supremely easy, is still a bit jarring. And even though all of my downloaded videos are conveniently kept in my Library, it still launches an external video player whenever I want to watch one of them. Downloads are blazing fast, however, and for those looking to share videos with a little more resolution might be attracted to Zudeo. According to TechCrunch, Azureus has signed deals with "20 major TV and film studios" to provide free programming, and the company also just got $12 million in funding from Redpoint Ventures and BV Capital, which TechCrunch's Natali Del Conte points out is more than it took to originally finance YouTube.

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.

CNet's popular web photo-sharing site Webshots has taken the obvious next step of launching its own video sharing feature. Aficionados of YouTube and other video sharing sites won't find much here they haven't seen before. The features are pretty standard. Upload your videos, embed them in your blog or web site, leave comments. You get the idea. The site boasts larger and higher-quality videos than most sites, but also has limits other sites don't. If you're a non-paying member you're limited to five-minute videos and up to 100 videos uploaded, plus 10 more for every month you're a member. If you're a paying premium member that goes up to 10 minutes, 250 videos, plus 25 for each month of membership.

While Webshots' new video features aren't bad by any means, if it's their aim to differentiate their service from the ever-growing crowd, they need to drop the arbitrary limitations. Existing Webshots users and people who want their videos and photos in one place (and who aren't already using Photobucket) will probably take advantage of the new video features, it's going to be a hard sell to people who are already happy with YouTube or its dozens of cousins.

You can check out Webshots' embedded player after the jump (ooh, elephants!), or see a few promo videos on Webshots.

[Via TechCrunch via Techmeme]

YouTube is on a quest to add a massive music video library to its extremely popular online database of videos, and is asking major labels to work with them. YouTube has been in talks with major record labels about posting their archives of music videos in their service. This is a drastic, but reasonable move away from a site where people share their own videos, moving towards a more mainstream approach providing professional content.

The co-founder of YouTube Steve Chen spoke about how in 12-18 months he would like to have every music video ever created accessible on YouTube. The big way that YouTube will differentiate themselves is to offer the service for free, and not charge like much of their competition (iTunes, AOL, Google and Yahoo) does.

The creators of the infamous Kazaa, and the now eBay-owned Skype, comes a new product that is sure to turn the industry up into a tizzy.

Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time developing a new communications software venture aimed at TV. The product, code named "The Venice Project" is a means of distributing video over the internet. The pair has supposedly amassed a team of developers from around the world to work on this life changing software application. And life changing it should be, given the giant impact both Kazaa and Skype have had on the world.

It should be interesting to see how "The Venice Project" does in this hungry field. They do have a ton of investment capital to fund this in order to make it to the top. YouTube has this market in their palms already. However Google, along with Video Egg, Brightcove, and Bittorrent are close behind.