Tracking social video
February 21st, 2007 – 7:14 pmMy discovery of the day is Vidmeter, a new service that tracks views, comments and movement (up/down) across the major social video sites: Atom Films, Break, Brightcove, Daily Motion, Google, Grouper, iFilm, Metacafe, Myspace, Revver, Veoh, vSocial, Yahoo, and YouTube.
Videos are sortable across a basic set of categories and by date, or rather, “age.” This distinction is important, I suppose, as a way of addressing dupes and copycat posts, which is also why it’s expressed imprecisely as “New Today,” “…This Week” and “…This Month.” This is an issue we should think about at some point.
Vidmeter’s business model seems to be tied to a premium service called “Tracker,” which is billed as a way to track and analyze an online video campaign.