Create a Profitable Video Sharing Website

By Jay Newman

If you have studied the success of Youtube, Metacafe, and others enviously there is no reasons why you can't create your own video sharing website. You should eventually be able to make some money in return from advertising depending on how well your promote your site. Here are key steps to take to get your video site off the ground

1. Rather than aiming at a mass market, choose a niche for your video site. I niche could include, cooking video's, car maintenance, howto's are perhaps "bloopers" and comic video's.

2. You'll need a good snappy domain name. Head over to one of the big registrars and see whats available. There are different approaches to choosing a domain. One way would be to include the keywords from your niche, such as "cooking videos." Another is to pick a snappy, zany name that help the site go viral.

3. Obviously you will need a web host for your video site. The cheapest option would be to go for shared hosting. So you may need a more specialist video provider. Once your site gets established you will need more resources, perhaps a dedicated server. A virtual private server is a good compromise.

4. Normal web hosting may not meet your requirements for running video site hosting. For instance you will need to check that web host has installed a software utility called ffmpeg. FFmpeg is popular software that converts video in various formats, on the fly to .flv format (or any other video format).

5. This is important as your shares will upload their films in a variety of formats. You server or host will also require php (safe mode off) ffmpeg-php, libogg

About the Author:

Jay Newman works at a Web Hosting Review Blog and also works in support at a Cheap Web Hosting Provider in London