Your Videos Published On Your Website
Use the information linked further below to publish personal videos or business-related videos in your total control.
When you publish your own videos, it is unnecessary to go through YouTube or other video service. (Your holiday and family videos no longer need to be uploaded to a third party, for example. Stream your videos from your own website.)
The video file is on your server. The HTML5 video tag is on your web page. It's all in your control.
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The HTML5 Video Tag Generator gets you started. The generator responds with copy and paste HTML5 to publish a video on your website.
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Videos From Your Website has more information about the HTML5 video tag.
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To run your videos within an image of a phone, see this Video Runs Within Phone Image article.
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The Video Play Counter article describes how to get a play count. (The How to Melt Chocolate With an Oven video has this implemented. You see the count immediately above the video.)
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The Statistics From Videos on Your Website article is lengthy and techy. If you are interested in how to get more than just "number of plays" statistics, have a look.
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Want to encourage other website owners to publish your videos? Let Others Publish Your Video on Their Domains describes 3 ways you can offer site owners to publish your videos.
Yes, it certainly is possible to say "no" to displaying ads for third-party video services like YouTube. Just publish your own HTML5 video tag.
(This blog post first appeared in Possibilities newsletter.)
Will Bontrager
