Monday, September 5, 2011

Watching videos is fun with Metacafe

We all love watching videos, and if they are from the movies we like to watch them even more and more. There are numerous video sharing sites across the web that has numerous videos from movies and albums. Some of the videos are so old that they make us feel nostalgic and remind us of our childhood days. The videos that we mostly watch online are presented by some common video sharing sites.

Video sharing refers to service or software provided by some websites that allows users to upload their personal or entertainment video clips in the site and present it for common viewers to watch. Video sharing service is a sub category of video Hosting services. Uploading videos may be either charged or free and have some guidelines to follow. Metacafe is one such website which is based on user generated videos; that means users can easily upload their videos in any form they want and present it to all the viewers for watching. Although there are some guideline that must be followed by the user before uploading his or her video, like file size, length of the video, adult content etc.

Some videos are promotional and some are funny. But watching videos is always interesting. Metacafe is one such site that features numerous high quality funny videos for its viewers. Most of the videos that are uploaded in Metacafe are advertisement based.

Meta cafe came into being in July 2002 and it featured all types of user generated videos of all categories just like other common video sharing sites. But later on it underwent major changes and today the scenario is totally different. It has completely transformed into a site that shares videos that are of short duration and advertisement based. Metacafe has association with many industries and brands of entertainment, consumer electronics, telecommunications, and consumer packaged goods, food & beverage, and automotive sectors for which Metacafe does promotion through video.

Metacafe.com also launched a producer reward program for video producers and uploaders to promote video uploading in which users who uploaded videos get paid if their videos were good and became popular. Later on this scheme was shut down because it was not profitable.

In today's times Metacafe.com is ranked as one of the best user generated video sharing sites in its category. It is also on top position according to the Alexa ranking. It attracts around 13 million viewers in the U.S alone every month and they are known to stream more than 50 million videos.

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Metacafe videos and contents are easily accessible. Many websites, browsers plug-ins and applications make the Metacafe videos easily downloadable. The picture quality of videos is high so Metacafe is known to be one of the most popular video sharing sites online.

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