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Video tips

A collection of tips to aid you on your quest to dominate all things video.

Video Recorder

Overview Becoming a vlogger has become a rite of passage in the 21st century. Though its adults or teenagers, everyone is found to be entranced by the beauty of vlogging. With so many social platforms out there, everyone wants to publicize their lives. This phenomenon is trending so much so

Free Music For Your Videos – The Importance of and Where to Find it

Free Music For Your Videos – The Importance of and Where to Find it

Overview Where the 21st century has its perks thanks to fast-paced advancement in technology yet, the same revolutionary changes can prove to be pretty challenging. If you take a survey of today’s market, you’ll find that it is flooded with products or services for the marketers. Simply getting

VR Stream

From youngsters to adults, everyone craves for high tech video games. People are obsessed with them to the point of addiction. Having to play such games in virtual reality mode is just icing on the cake. If you are looking for affordable ways to enjoy PC or Oculus games in

Factors to Consider While Choosing a YouTube Encoder

Factors to Consider While Choosing a YouTube Encoder

With the recent upgrade of Youtube that now enables live streaming, things have been revolutionized for vloggers, businesses, live streamers, and broadcasters. The addition of such a new feature has raised the demand for an encoder. If you are into live streaming, an encoder certainly makes it to the list

OTT Services – A Comprehensive Overview

OTT Services – A Comprehensive Overview

Can you imagine your life without entertainment? Going on with your monotonous job day in and day out can be a tedious task if you don’t have something to look forward to. This is where entertainment comes to play and of such tools is television content. Numerous television shows

MPEG DASH – What It Is And Why You Should Choose It?

MPEG DASH – What It Is And Why You Should Choose It?

The term MPEG DASH is not a new one for the video producers, broadcasters, live streamers, etc. but there is still a lack of understanding about what it is and the implications that it holds for the technological world in the years to come. If you are one such individual

HTML5 vs Flash

The rivalry between HTML and Flash is not a new one. Especially in the community of vloggers, live streamers, broadcasters, etc., the debate about the pros and cons of each has been a hot one for a long time. The use of HTML or Flash has an impact that isn’

HLS Streaming

Streaming a live video on your mobile device, or on a web browser is a common phenomenon in the advanced world of today. In this world of today, we have multiple ways of broadcasting our media files to the world. The decade of Adobe’s Flash video technology had been

Making the Right Decision While Choosing a Software or Hardware Encoder

Making the Right Decision While Choosing a Software or Hardware Encoder

If you are into vlogging or are planning to get into it and have been spending time to get as much information about it as possible, the importance of encoding would certainly not be a novel to you. It won’t be wrong to state that having the required equipment

List of Top 5 Video Hosts For Video Marketing Purposes

List of Top 5 Video Hosts For Video Marketing Purposes

There is no argument that video content is an important component of marketing. Audiences crave short, engaging videos that drive home messages in a concise way. Long videos are an engagement killer! There, I've said it. This is why the trend toward "short-videos" in marketing has taken over the Internet.

HTML5 Video Tag – Is It Worth Using?

HTML5 Video Tag – Is It Worth Using?

For vloggers or the people and businesses that are interested in marketing their videos, the choice of the video player is of crucial importance. It is next to impossible for you to achieve your desired results in terms of video marketing if you fail to choose a suitable video player.

What You Need to Know About Video Bitrate

What You Need to Know About Video Bitrate

Do you want to increase your video quality? Well, who would say no to this? The term “Bitrate” has possibly come across you once in a while at some time of exporting your video. Remember? However, there is nothing to worry about it. We are going to clarify all your

Top 7 M3U8 Player's

Top 7 M3U8 Player's

You have some .m3u8 files or an M3U8 live streaming video link but have no idea how to play it on your Windows PC or Mac? Well, you do not have to download the videos in order to watch it anymore. Because we have listed the best M3U8 Players here.

The true cost of “free” when using YouTube on your website

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The true cost of “free” when using YouTube on your website

The YouTube video player is thought to be completely free to use, even for businesses. But someone has to pay... So who is paying and what is the real cost?

Email Marketing: How to increase open and click-through rates with videos

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Email Marketing: How to increase open and click-through rates with videos

Email marketing can be an effective tool to drive traffic to your website and generate new leads. However, as more companies begin to clutter consumers’ inboxes, emails need to be more engaging to grab people’s attention. One way to make the most of your email marketing campaign is to

How to Embed YouTube Videos on WordPress

How to Embed YouTube Videos on WordPress

There are over a billion users of YouTube, which is approximately one-third of the people who use the internet. Every day, these users watch millions of hours of videos on YouTube thereby generating billions of views. When these numbers are combined with that of WordPress, which powers almost 27% of

How to add videos to an Elementor website

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How to add videos to an Elementor website

As great as Elementor is, the included options for adding a video to your site using the builder are limited. With the SmartVideo plugin for WordPress, your options are limitless.

Slow videos are a big problem: Why your video speed matters

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Slow videos are a big problem: Why your video speed matters

When it comes to any online service, speed matters. Even milliseconds of buffering can have a catastrophic effect on business. Just like websites, video speed matters too.

Top pros & cons of using YouTube on your site

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Top pros & cons of using YouTube on your site

It’s great to have a presence on YouTube. They make it very easy (and free) to embed videos on your site, but these benefits come at a price...

Auto-playing background videos are hard, so let's make it easy

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Auto-playing background videos are hard, so let's make it easy

In theory, adding a background video to your site is as simple as including the autoplay keyword in your video tags. Unfortunately, there's one major catch.

After 500 million video streams, here's what we've learned

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After 500 million video streams, here's what we've learned

In a previous post, we announced that we've delivered over 500 million video streams [https://swarmify.com/blog/500-million-video-streams-later-swarmify-is-celebrating-a-major-milestone/] on behalf of publishers both large and small. It's been an incredible journey talking with customers, streaming countless videos for small businesses, monitoring playback performance, and making sure end-users on thousands

3 ways the repeal of #NetNeutrality is good for the Internet

3 ways the repeal of #NetNeutrality is good for the Internet

How to make lemonade from a big bag of lemons ;) It probably seems like there is nothing good to gain from repeal of net-neutrality. But in every challenge there exists an opportunity, so let’s dive right in… 1) Citizens of the Internet were able to come together across divisions

Giving thanks to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai

Giving thanks to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai

We had too many choices anyways -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paradox of choice — no more! Wow, so get this, now when you want to watch video content on the Internet, some of it is going to play perfectly well and other video content will buffer, stall, and just be bad quality. Now instead

The future: Reality meets The Sims

The future: Reality meets The Sims

It all starts with the iPhone Apple recently celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the iPhone which is the birth of the modern smartphone era. If you consider that for a moment, it almost seems crazy to think that in less than a decade, that small hand held smart phone

How to get a guaranteed 80% decrease in video rebuffers

How to get a guaranteed 80% decrease in video rebuffers

On Tuesday, an announcement was made that probably felt groundbreaking to most, but a bit meager to us. Limelight announced they would provide a money-back guarantee if they failed to improve video re-buffer rates by 10% relative to other CDN’s. While all improvement is great (and needed), 10% is