When it comes to hosting media files on your website, the most obvious choice is Amazon S3. However, when you choose S3 to host your videos, it can be tricky to play the video on your website, to do so you need your own media players etc.

This service, EZS3, combines Amazon S3 with media players so that you’re able to play those videos on your website. If you go to EZS3.com you will find that the cost of this service is $20 per month. Also, to be able to sign up for EZS3 you need to have an Amazon S3 account. Amazon S3 uses a pay as you go system so there is no fixed monthly fee.

When you log into your EZS3 account you will be presented with various media player options as shown below…

As an example; let’s pretend that we want to embed an .FLV file on our website. If you click the red ‘Create Quick Player Template’ button (as seen in the picture above), you will then be taken to a new page where you can see all the folders that are available in your Amazon S3 account…

Once you’re on this page (picture above) you have to select the folder where your video file is stored. Once you’ve selected a folder, you will be taken to this page…

On this page (picture above) you will see the folders where there’s an .FLV file available. It will also show you the folder size, the content inside the folder and what the Amazon S3 bandwidth cost would be per 1000 views for each file. After you have selected a folder you will be able to see all the .FLV files that have been hosted on your Amazon S3 Bucket…

Once you’ve selected an .FLV file you will see that there are a lot of different player styles available…

You can choose any player style you want. After you have done that, you will be taken to a page where you can customize your video by selecting between lots of different options.

You can customize things such as the player width and height, whether it should allow fullscreen playback, the colours of the player etc. (see all the different options in the picture above).

You can also easily watermark your videos. A great thing to do (most of you are probably already doing this) when you’re watermarking your videos is to put your web address into the watermark. By doing this, more traffic will be directed to your website if a person watches your video on another location on the Internet.

There’s also another feature called ‘Player Security’ which you can use if you have a membership website or a blog and you feel that others shouldn’t use your file and bandwidth, you can enter the URL of your domain and the video fill will only be available and able to be played on your domain and not only anyone else’s domain.

Once you’ve selected the right options for your video, you will be taken to the next page…

On this page you can see the JavaScript code that is available. You can just copy the code and embed it on your website.

Here you can see that I’ve embedded video on my blog. I’ve tested it and it works very well.

Another great thing about EZS3 is that there are no limits to the amount of players you can create. The costs also don’t increase if you are generating more and more embed codes. It is always $20 per month. However serving more videos means higher bill from Amazon S3.

EZS3 also lets you track how many times each of your videos have been viewed. And also lets you add widgets to your videos such as a comments box, social bookmarks, ratings, banners etc.

Another great feature that is available is called The Overlay. This feature is very popular. What it does is that it basically lets you embed an opt in form into your video that can appear at any time that you want during the video.

The name EZS3 means ‘Easy S3’. Amazon S3 provides a great service but it can be a bit difficult to use. The whole intention of EZS3 is to make it easier to host media files on your website. Many of the things that you have to do manually when using Amazon S3 can now be done automatically for you.

Do you use this service or plan to use it in the future?

It’s not long ago since videos were first started to be published online, but already, people are adapting to how much everything has changed. If you browse the Internet today, videos are everywhere.

The bandwidth has increased and many webmasters are considering putting up videos online. Since publishing videos on the Internet has recently started, many people are confused about what format they should use for videos online. They’re also confused about what resolution that they should put on their websites where they publish their videos.

Answer: The resolution that has to be used depends on the target audience. If the target audience is very tech savvy and if they’re from a highly developed country, then high resolution videos will be well suited for them.

If the target audience does not have high bandwidth however, the videos should be in a low resolution. In either case however, it’s important that you always create videos in the highest possible resolution. Doing so keeps us prepared for the future because if the bandwidth standard increases, we can create higher quality copies of our original video.

The takeaway lesson here is the following: Create the original video in the highest possible resolution and then encode the video for the target audience. For example; if you’re putting your video on your website you can encode the video with the target audience of your website in mind, however, when you put the same video on a DVD that you plan to distribute you can encode the video at a higher resolution.

There are two different types of aspect ratios; 4:3 and 16:9. 4:3 is the resolution that we have in our old TV’s. The other aspect ratio is 16:9; this one is the more recently used of the two. Here are some recommendations for the resolutions. However, you don’t have to follow these standards and you can modify the resolutions as you wish but for me, I feel that the following are good formats:

Low Bandwidth Resolutions

For Low bandwidth resolution videos and for the 4:3 aspect ratio, the best resolutions are:

• 320 x 240
• 480 x 320
• 400 x 300

The 16:9 is also known as the widescreen format. YouTube has started adopting this widescreen format (16:9). For Low bandwidth resolution videos and for the 16:9 aspectratio, the best resolutions are:

• 480 x 270
• 400 x 225

If your website has different dimensions and if you want to fit your video into a particular sidebar that has different dimensions, make sure that the video resolution that you choose is perfect.

Here’s how you do that: For example, if you choose the 16:9 aspect ratio, divide the higher resolution by the smaller resolution (w/h) and the value should turn out to be 1.777…

So basically, if you’re choosing your own resolution and if you want to make sure that the aspect ratio is 16:9, then just simply divide the width by the height of the video and the answer should be 1.777. If you want to do the same with the 4:3 aspect ratio, the answer when you divide the width by the height should be 1.333…

Low bandwidth videos are generally used for videos such as short, quick videos without many details where you’re talking in front of your camera and where only your face can be seen.

Mid to High Bandwidth Resolutions

If you’re creating teaching, training or screencast videos, the Mid to High bandwidth is preferred. The best resolutions in the 4:3 aspect ratio for Mid or High bandwidth videos are:

• 640 x 480
• 800 x 600
• 1024 x 768

If you’re recording the video in the widescreen aspect ratio (16:9) the best resolutions are:

• 710 x 400
• 854 x 480
• 960 x 540
• 1280 x 720

Again, if you divide the width by the height the answer should be 1.333 for the 4:3 aspect ratio and 1.777 for the 16:9 aspect ratio.

If you are creating a video for training or teaching purposes and if you are embedding the video into your blog or membership website, it’s a good idea to let people download the source file. You can do this by leaving a link below your video that will lead your visitors to the source video. You can put even put it in a higher resolution.

Best Formats For Online Videos

The best formats for online videos are .FLV and .MP4. The .MP4 format is becoming more standard right now and is also more preferred by most. For the .MP4 format there are different types of compression. The most standard and recommended one is the H.264 compression.

Usually it’s available in most video encoders. Using this one could very likely give you the highest compression technology and the highest quality for online videos. When you let people download your video off your website, it’s a good idea to give the video away in the .MP4 format because .MP4 files can be played in most video and media players.

If you’re giving the file away in the .FLV format, then when someone downloads the file they may have to find a new video and media player just in order to be able to play the video because not all video and media players support the .FLV format. Not only that, they may also have to get a new codec.

There are a few formats that you may have seen but that are not preferred for online videos, these are formats are the .avi, the .mov, the .mpg and the .wmv. Videos in these formats usually also make for very large files.

Encoding Your Video

In your video encoder, there will most likely be an option for 2 pass encoding. Always encode videos in the ‘2 pass vbr mode’. This will usually result in higher quality. When you’re encoding the video, you will also be able to select the data rate. The best range of data rate for online video is 350 – 550 kbps. For audiences with low Internet bandwidth you can select the lower end and for the audiences with higher bandwidth you can select the higher end.

The standard frame rates are usually 24, 25, 29.97 and 30. If you are creating a live video where you’re talking in front of the camera, choose the 30 frames per second (fps) option. For other types of screencast videos, 24 or 25 frames per second would be enough.

For presentation style videos, for example if you’re creating a PowerPoint presentation video; you can go ahead and cut the frame rate by 2. When you’re producing the video from your video editing application, there will be an option for key frames; there you can put the key frames as automatic. Most of the video editing applications will have an inbuilt encoder for creating the final video. In the next article I will tell you more about video encoders such as standalone video encoders and cloud encoders.

Both the Flip and the Zi8 are great cameras. They’re very similar in many ways but both of them also out-do each other at a few different things. Since they both got their strengths and weaknesses, making your choice between the two of them depends on what you want to do. Both these cameras are suited for quick, short internet videos and not for three hour long videos.

Video Quality

When it comes to the video quality both perform very similar. The Flip Ultra HD records in 720p which is enough for the Internet (720p is HD [High Definition] on YouTube.) The Kodak Zi8 also records in 720p but you can also get the option of going up to 1080p, an option that you don’t have with the Flip. So in terms of size the Kodak is better but when you put videos online, the quality would be pretty much the same.

Sound Quality

In the sound department, the Kodak camera wins. The reason why is because it has a small external microphone jack where you can plug in a label microphone (or any other microphone) if you have one, which is quite handy if you’re a bit away from the camera when you’re recording.

This lets you keep good sound quality. The Flip camera does not have one of these microphone jacks so you’re stuck with the sound from the camera. However, there’s a fix for that.

You can use an external voice recorder and record the sound separately. You can then later match up the sound and the video together.

To record the sound, the Edirol Voice Recorder from Roland is a great choice. However, it’s quite expensive (around $500) so you may want to go with a cheaper option. There are many cheaper options that also work great.

So in the sound department, the Kodak camera wins. However, you can still get great sound quality with the Flip camera by using an external voice recorder.

File Format and Storage

With the Flip, the USB is really easy to use because you can just flip it out and plug it in. The Kodak has something similar but it’s just not as neat. The Flip records in the .mp4 format which works great on both PC and Mac. It’s also a great format for editing and works great with most editing programs and applications. The Kodak records in the .mov format.It does have some space to record movies onto the camera itself but for the most part you record the movies on an SD drive (SD card.) On the SD card there’s 32GB of space so that gives you the option of recording quite a lot of longer footage. The Flip camera only got 8GB of space and it only records straight onto the camera, it doesn’t have an SD card.

The Flip only got 8gbs and it only records straight onto the camera, you don’t have the SD card option. In the file format and storage department the Zi8 probably wins. It’s very close between the though. However, if you’re only going to put up some short videos online, the 8GB space that you get with the Flip is probably sufficient.

Ease of Use

Both these two cameras are really easy to use. However, if we have to crown a champion the Flip takes the price. The Flip only has 4 buttons (on/off switch, a navigation button, a record button etc.) so it’s almost impossible to make any mistakes when using the Flip.

The Kodak camera is a bit more complicated but it’s also very easy to use. It has a few more buttons that has the potential to confuse you but that means that it also has more features and extra functionality. It will take a bit longer to learn how to use the Kodak Zi8 compared to the Flip Ultra HD.

Looks and Design

A good thing about the Flip camera is that it has a flat surface. The Kodak doesn’t have a flat bottom so you can’t stand it up on a table or any other flat surface. You can screw in a tripod into both of these cameras. The Flip fits really nicely into your hand but this can of course be different depending on the person. The Flip also has nice rounded corners. The Kodak is quite thin and it could therefore be subject to slipping from your hand.

Battery and Power

The Flip camera has a rechargeable battery that’s in the AA size. What that means is that if you run out of battery; if you brought a few normal AA batteries along with you, you can just put them in continue to use your camera.

The Kodak also comes with a rechargeable battery of course; however, it’s not the standard size. This can be a bit of a pain because if you run out of power, you’re doomed. You can of course buy a few more batteries of the same type so that if you’re out and can’t recharge the battery, you can still continue using the camera by putting in another battery.

Colors

The Kodak Zi8 comes in three different colours; black, aqua (light blue) and raspberry colour (it looks pink.) The Flip Ultra HD comes in two different colours; white and black.

Final Verdict

As mentioned above, in many ways they’re very similar to each other and both are truly great cameras but overall, the Flip Ultra HD wins over the Kodak Zi8. The biggest reason why the Flip wins is because it’s just so easy to use. What about the price? Both cameras are being sold for about the same price, $200. Which is not a bad price considering that both these two are good cameras.

I have created tons of screencast videos over the past few years for marketing affiliate products, marketing my own info products and to create training videos. Here are the top 7 tips for making the screencasts much better and professional…

1. Prepare Your PC

The Software required to record screencast videos require a quite high PC power so it’s always a good idea to restart your computer before you start the software and start recording. When you restart your computer the videos always turn out better.

It’s also good to close as many background apps as possible, background apps such as; backup software, synchronization services and instant messengers. Turning off system audio is also a good idea because notification sounds can appear when you have a new email etc. and that may distract you.

2. Have a Professional Background Image

If you’re doing something on your desktop while recording such as opening folders, opening new applications etc. it’s a good idea to havea desktop wallpaper in the background that looks great for your background. You may not want a background that is too cluttered and distracting etc.

Instead, you can have a clean and good looking desktop wallpaper and/or even make sure that your logo if you have one is visible on there somewhere. Doing this keeps it professional.

3. Plan For Storage

While recording the video, all the data will continually be stored in the hard drive so it’s a good idea to use a separate hard disk than the hard disk that the operating system is using. This will make the video run better and smoother. However, if you do not have an additional hard disk in your computer then I suggest that you use an external hard disk which is connected to an e-sata port or a fire-wire port.

I do not recommend using an external hard disk through the usb port because it’s not as fast as e-sata or firewire. If you do not have an additional internal hard disk or external hard disk then I suggest that you defragment your hard disk before you record the video.

4. Noise Free Audio…

Before you start to record make sure to test drive all your audio recording equipment so that everything works properly. Also set up your screen capture software in such a way that the audio recording is made in a .wav format.

If you create your audio recording in a .wav format the file will likely be a bit bigger than if you were to create it in the .mp3 or .ogg format. There are advantages if you record the audio in the .wav format. During screen capture videos there’s often noise in the background.

However, when you record the audio in the .wav format it’s much easier to get rid of the background noise and you can also apply various filters to your audio file using a free software that I recommend named Audacity.

Audacity has a lot of features such as noise reduction etc. Audacity is an open source software. I will talk more about Audacity in future posts. So while you’re recording and editing, .wav is the best format.

5. Have a Voice-Over Script

If you are creating videos for the purpose of marketing or demonstrating your product or service, always write a script of what you’re going to say first and then afterwards, you can do the audio recording while reading directly from the script.

That way everything that you say will be clearer and your speech pattern will be smoother. If you’re creating a screencast video or if you’re creating a PowerPoint presentation you can then just simply play the audio recording in the background and you can synchronize the audio with the video so that the two of them “fits together.”

6. Your Voice is 50% of Your Video…

When you are going to create a video, don’t do the common mistake of only thinking of the visual aspect of the video. You should also make sure that the audio quality is the very best it can be. If both the video looks good and the quality of the audio is high, then the whole video (including the audio) will come off as much more professional.

To make sure that the audio quality is up to par, always make sure to use a good microphone when you record the video. You don’t need to throw out your entire pay check on a microphone but do spend a bit of money on a high quality microphone from a company that has a good reputation.

I use the headset “Microsoft LifeChat LX”; it includes both headphones and a microphone. I recommend that you don’t spend less than $10 on a microphone; I suggest that you look for microphones in the $30 to $50 price range. If you’re unsure which microphone to buy then you can always ask for recommendations from other people.

Also I suggest that when you’re recording the audio, actually put the microphone at the tip of your nose, that way the sound will be much clearer. That way when you’re later speaking and recording, the breathing from your nose won’t be heard. If needed, adjust the microphone and set it a bit higher up if you’re still blowing out air from your nose onto your microphone.

Another tip is to actually stand up while you’re recording the audio. It may not be possible but if you can do it then it’s a good idea to do it because while you’re standing your diaphragm expands and your lung capacity increases. Try it.

7. Record At Maximum Possible Resolution

When you’re recording a screencast video I recommend that you record it at a high resolution. If you record the video using a low resolution you can’t increase the resolution later, however, if you record the video at a high resolution you can always lower the resolution later when the video is already created and still keep the high quality.

This is also good if you later want to include the video in a DVD or if the web standard for videos increases and websites start to support videos with higher resolution.

The standard resolution for a video in the DVD format is 720 x 486 and if you’re creating the video in a wide-screen DVD format then the resolution is 864 x 486. If you’re creating a video that you are going to upload online, then I recommend 1280 x 720 wide-screen resolution which is usually called as 720p. YouTube loves these kind of videos.

I hope that these 7 tips will be useful when you create your screencast videos. Share your screencast experience with me and other readers…

If you have a bunch of PowerPoint slides that you want to display, it’s a good idea to turn these slides into a video because most people would much rather watch a video than having to click through PowerPoint slides. If you create a video you also have the option of adding a voice-over to give further explanation and information to the viewers.

When you have created your PowerPoint slides and when you are satisfied with them, there are many software tools that you can use to display all the slides in a video. I’ve tried a lot of different software tools and methods and I have been most satisfied with a software tool named Moyea PPT to Video Converter. I’ve found that the videos has simply turned out the best when I’ve used Moyea PPT to Video Converter so I do recommend that you use that one, but if you for some reason don’t like this software, check out others by simple doing a search-engine search and you will find more software tools like this one.

I’ve used Moyea PPT to Video Converter both for creating videos consisting of professional PowerPoint slides and information products for my business. Moyea PPT to Video Converter will cost you $40 which I think you will find is a very good and low price for this software tool. I see it as a very good investment.

A great thing about Moyea PPT to Video Converter is that it’s very easy to use and you will probably learn how to use it in no time. To get started in creating a video, you can just simply click the big ‘Add’ button to add a slide to your video.

There are also a few different output settings available that you will want to take a look at. These settings will affect how your video turns out so I recommend that you try some or even all of them out and see which settings work best for you. However, in my experience, if you want the best results, especially for an online video I recommend that you use the following settingsas seen below in the picture;

By going to ‘Customize Settings’ you can choose how long you want the default duration to be for showing each slide in your video. If you’re planning to include a voice-over in your video or if you simply want each slide to be displayed a bit longer, you may want to consider increasing that duration a bit so that there is sufficient timeforeach slide, however, more on that later.

Through ‘Customize settings’ you can select how long you want the default duration to be for showing each slide

If you are creating a video with both PowerPoint slides and a voice-over, I recommend that you create the audio file with the voice-over first. Then, while you are running the PowerPoint presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint, click on the button ‘Use Rehearsed Timings’ and then you simply synchronize the PowerPoint presentation along with the voice-over or in other words, you make sure that your voice-over “fits” with the PowerPoint presentation so that the right things are being explained and talked about at the right time.

After you have created the PowerPoint presentation with the voice-over, then you can put the PowerPoint presentation in the Moyea PPT to Video Converter software tool and it will automatically create a video according to the duration, timings and settings in the PowerPoint presentation file and even the animations in each slide will be timed perfectly. The voice-over will be included in the video as well.

After you have created your video, you can edit the video using video editing software such as Camtasia Studio, Sony Vegas Pro or any other software. By using one of these video editing software tools you can do things such as manually synchronizing the audio and video file together and removing the extra parts in the video that are not necessary.

In this article I will explain to you how you can get more search engine traffic to your WordPress blog by using Video Sitemaps. Also, you can actually get video results in the search engine by hosting the videos on your own server and by submitting the Video Sitemap to Google. This is something that I do and as a result, the amount of traffic to my blog has increased substantially.

Back in 2007, Google introduced us to something called ‘Google Universal Search’. What this changed was that no longer would just text content show up whenever you performed a search using Google but now it would also show videos and images in the search results. Before, if you wanted to search for an image you had to click the ‘images’ button but now however, Google includes everything in the main search result which means that videos will be receiving more traffic.

As you may know, Google uses “spiders” to “crawl” websites to find any new content that may have been added. However, Google recommends that website owners should use XML sitemaps to inform Google of any new content on their website. These sitemaps are usually submitted through the Google Webmaster Tools (if you don’t have a Gmail account, you can get one and then you will be able to sign up and use Google Webmaster Tools.)

In the beginning of this article I promised you that I would explain how to increase your traffic using video sitemaps. Well, I will and I’m now going to introduce you to the 6 steps that you need to take in order to get more traffic to your videos and as a result, get more traffic coming to your blog.

The 6 Steps To Increasing Traffic To Your Blog Using Videos:

1. The first step may be obvious, but the first step is creating a video. You can record and create a video using your digital camera, your webcam, a video camera, your iPod Nano etc. If you for some reason don’t want to appear in a video or if you don’t want to create a video using the methods above, you can always use software tools such as Camtasia Studio, Jing Project or ScreenFlow if you are a mac user. If you want, you can also create videos using photo slideshows. You can create these using Microsoft PowerPoint.

2. The next step to take is converting your video into an FLV format: For example; you can do this with Camtasia Studio if you are a user. If you do not own any software that can covert various video files into an FLV format, you can use blip.tv (http://www.blip.tv/.) There you can upload your video and then they will convert the video into an FLV format for you and then you can just simply download your video from their website. If you want, you can delete the video that you uploaded after you have downloaded it onto your computer. From what I’ve personally seen, it seems that the end result when using blip.tv is very good, in fact it’s often better compared to the end result when using a software tool.

3. If you want people to land on your website when they click on your video in the search engine result, you will have to upload the video onto your own server. It can’t have been uploaded using a video sharing website.

I also don’t recommend that you host your video using the same host that you use for your own website because videos can take up a lot of bandwidth. If you’re using up too much bandwidth and if you are using a shared server your hosting company can get a bit cranky and they may even decide to close your account.

I recommend Amazon S3 for hosting videos. Amazon S3 is an online storage web service and the good thing is that you only pay for the amount of bandwidth that you use; there is no monthly fee or initial fee to pay.

4. In this step you have to embed the FLV video into your WordPress blog. There is a WordPress plugin called ‘FLV Embed Plugin’ and this plugin makes embedding FLV videos into your blog very simple and easy. When using the plugin, the only thing that you have to do is give the destination of your FLV video and your video will then magically appear on your blog!

5. In step number 5 you have to create a Video Sitemap. Fortunately, the FLV Embed Plugin has a feature which will create a video sitemap for you which again makes it very easy and simple for you.

As you can see in the picture above, the Video Sitemap displays the title of the post where you got your video, the description of the post, the thumbnail of the video etc.

6. Finally, the last step! The Video Sitemap must be submitted to Google. You can do this by getting a Google Webmaster Account if you don’t already have one. You can do this by visiting Google Webmaster Tools. After you got your account you will have to verify your website and then you can submit your Video Sitemap to Google.

Below is a picture that shows you how my Google Webmaster login looks like. In the picture you can see that I have submitted my Video Sitemap, “videofeed.xml”, and you can see that I’ve so far created seven videos for my blog as you can see by looking at the number seven displayed in the “URLs submitted” column. You can also see that seven videos have been indexed in Google.

So far I’ve been receiving a great amount of traffic from three of my seven videos and I will continue to create more videos for my blog. Google loves videos and so does the people using Google so it’s a good idea that you start focusing on increasing traffic to your blog with videos.

Ever since watching and putting videos online started to become popular, a lot of online video distribution services have emerged. Among those video distribution services, Hey!Spread is my favourite because they only charge you based on how much you use their service, in other words you could say that they use a pay as you go system while most other online video distribution services charges you a set monthly fee.

Even though YouTube is the biggest online video sharing website it’s important to share your videos on other online video sharing websites because of the SEO benefit. Sharing your videos on more than just one website improves the chances of your video appearing in the search engines.

Let me go over the features of Hey!Spread. The interface of Hey!Spread is very simple, it’s not cluttered and it’s easy to find your way around. It’s one of the reasons why I like Hey!Spread so much.

The Interface on Hey!Spread

After you have created your account the first thing that you have to do is buy some credits in order to be able to begin distributing videos. There are two payment options, pre-paid and post-paid. I prefer the pre-paid option, by picking the pre-paid option you have to buy credits for a minimum of $10; each credit costs you $0.05 so by paying $10 you get 200 credits.

Once you have your account, click on the upload tab. If you go down you will find that there are many destinations available. In order to use all these destinations you have to create an account on all these websites.

Then simply mark the destinations that you want to use and then enter your login details. One thing that I liked about this feature is that by entering your login details, Hey!Spread simply checks whether the details that you entered are correct by logging in to the video sharing websites that you had marked. On other video distribution when you enter your login details it doesn’t automatically check whether the information that you entered is correct for all the websites and the error won’t be shown until later and it just makes the whole process more difficult and time-consuming.

Two other features that are worth mentioning here is Encoding and Watermarking. If you are uploading a video in a format which is not supported by the video sharing website you can simply check the Encoding box and it will change the format into a format that is accepted by the video sharing website. If you want to watermark your video, you can do it by using the watermark feature. You can just simply select where you want the watermark to appear and then put in the destination of your image file.

There are three other options when you are uploading a video. You need to select either the destination of your video file, the URL where your video is or you can upload your video directly from your webcam.

Other than that, when uploading your video you just have to enter the title, the description and the tags for the video and then by just clicking the ‘Upload’ button, you will upload your video to all your marked destinations. After doing so, Hey!Spread will give you a confirmation whether all the video has been uploaded to all the destinations. If something went wrong, Hey!Spread will let you know and they will also give you the reason why there was an error.

Hey!Spread also has a tracking service available so that you can track the number of views that your videos are getting on each video sharing website but this costs you three credits or in other words, 15 cents for each video that you track. I do not use this service because I think that it is a bit costly but if you are uploading some videos in which you are selling products you can easier track the conversions by tracking your videos so then using this service would be quite useful.