Live Video Hosting provides your band with the option to feed live video to your website and to fans or publicly on the services website, on your bands profile. Whatever it is you wish to share, all you need is an internet connection with a computer and webcam.  Or if you have a newer smart phone and it has an internet connection you could use that to publish a live feed. From the list below, see what services best suite your bands ideas. Just remember to warn your email and RSS subscribers that you are going live. Unless that is, you are wanting to hold suspense and really surprise your fans.

Wolfgang’s Vault
“The ultimate live music archive of  concert recordings of rock, jazz, country, blues, indie with free streaming, downloads, collectible posters, rock photos, vintage t-shirts, rock t-shirts,  music news, music reviews, memorabilia of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s and more is Wolfgang’s Vault.”

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/

Page Rank: 6

Alexa Rank: 25,125

Castpost
“Castpost currently includes Castpost Hosting, A popular video hosting services for user-generated content. Castpost Hosting is in Alpha, and people all over the world use Castpost to share their personal video and audio clips with friends and family.”

http://www.castpost.com/

Page Rank: 5

Alexa Rank: 218,683

UStream.tv
“Broadcast video LIVE to the world from a computer, mobile or iPhone in minutes, or watch thousands of shows from News to Entertainment to celebrities, 24/7.”

http://www.ustream.tv/

Page Rank: 8

Alexa Rank: 497

Justin.tv
“Watch live video and chat with friends. Create your own live broadcast channel.”

http://www.justin.tv/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 386

Juicecaster
“Take videos, pictures, picture messaging from your mobile phone, Blackberry or iPhone an post them for free to your JuiceCaster Media Box, and share them on your favorite personal pages like MySpace, Friendster, Xanga, Blogger, and more.”

http://www.juicecaster.com/

Page Rank: 5

Alexa Rank: 765,834

Qik
“Qik, a mobile video sharing service, lets you record and share the experience with your friends, family and your favorite social networks (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) – right from your mobile phone.”

http://qik.com/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 14,547

uBroadcast

“At ubroadcast.com, anyone can host a live and interactive television or radio show over the Internet.”

www.ubroadcast.net

Page Rank: 5

Alexa Rank: 382,845

Video Hosting services  as the infamous Youtube are more than just a place to stick your bands footage. Here are a few of the positives from choosing these services to put your latest recording or gig footage. With Youtube you can add a link to each video description you upload. This will benefit your website with extra backlinks and a viewer of your video has the option to click the link and go straight through to your site. As mentioned in Content Management systems and web hosting, with using those media hosting services you will automatically hand over the hosting issue to them.

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Muzu.tv is also covered in our guide on page 53 – Muzu marketing ideas

From their website description: “Watch official music videos, documentaries, TV shows, interviews, behind the scenes, tutorials and loads of exclusive and rare footage.”

Currently this website is sat around the 50,000 mark on Alexa. With that number, we can guess that it has a very small percentage of visitors compared to the likes of Last.FM, Myspace and Youtube which all offer video capabilities. So is it worth signing up for, well this is a question many a marketer ask themselves. Obviously the back link(Once Registered) you put on your bands profile, could help Search Engine Rankings. I am not a big believer in leveraging this strategy so involving yourself and dedicating some time to each service or tool no matter if it is a social one or not is something to aim for and optimize.

Muzu offers one great advantage over other Video Hosting services and that is its interactivity choices with’music listeners’/fans. They are able to upload a fan video of a song you have played live or even add their own images as a fan made music video. Can’t that be done everywhere else? Muzu have added some extra features which allow the videos they upload to be added to the bands official profile on the website. It has given more opportunities for the band to spread content as it is being handed on a plate, it can be shared and embedded on to a website.

It is another music service which offers royalties for the amount of plays. The precise amount is not known by us but expect pennies for a few thousand video plays. Either way, we appreciate the handful of original features Muzu.tv offers and would consider it for a bands video marketing strategy.

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Youtube.COM You can find out how to set up your bands Youtube account in our Music Marketing Guide

“YouTube is a place where you can discover, watch, upload and share videos.”

Video has a lot to offer online, video marketing is a real key strategy for adding to the bigger picture. However a business wishes to attack their video marketing efforts, there is always something to be gained from video.

Youtube is at the forefront, embedding video’s elsewhere, like and sharing functions on every video and a host of other options.

So in being in a band it must be that bit simpler, you can show off products, i.e songs. Get fans to record you at gigs and then those who you wish to earn from financially will be the ones marketing you on the internet.

Quick to register and you can sync your Google account as to save any more form filling. Get on board and start capturing new ideas visually.