Review of Google Video Internet Television and Video Distribution Site

What is Google Video?




Google Video, currently in beta, is the video distribution or internet television service being promoted by the world’s largest search engine Google.  Like their major competitors in the internet video world YouTube, and Yahoo Video they offer anyone with an Internet connection the ability to upload video clips and share them with friends, family, and the world, all for free. Users are invited to leave comments and save videos directly to their own computers for playback in Google’s own video player.

For Content Producers




You can upload free or commercial videos and set prices and previews for commercially available videos.  Google offers easy to use software for uploading your video and everything is available using your free Google account.  You can make money by selling your content and can upload a huge amount of videos at the same time. 

Pros.




With Google providing the back end, it’s very fast, reliable, isn’t going anywhere, and will probably stay free forever.  Users can download your video to their computers and via private reports you can monitor how many views and download your videos are receiving without that information being made public.  The Google video upload tool is very effective for quicker video uploading. You can login using your existing google account and use regular urls in the description that automatically become links to wherever you want. 

Cons.




No ability for people to subscribe to your videos, so you can’t get regular content subscribers in the way you can with other video sites, like YouTube or Yahoo video.  There are no user profile pages, just an option to view more videos from a particular user,  There isn’t the same community you can experience on other video sites, with messages, profiles, etc.