Love For Break and Dailymotion

(Official Post Here) 

Good news, you can now submit videos from Break and Dailymotion! And to kick it off here’s a Dave Chappelle Mac Parody Video.

We’re always looking for more providers to add to our list. Know of one we missed? Let us know!

The Value of Anonymous

So one question we’ve been meaning to answer is the fact that we do not require people to login to the site to vote. This is actually by design and not by accident or “lack of functionality.” We believe there is value in anonymous. We want to make the experience as painless as possible. You can come to the site, upload a video, vote and comment without the “baggage” of creating a new account. People may be more likely to interact.

Now with that said, there is definitely some value in allowing people to create a profile, vote and save their selections for later. It builds a community around the site and that makes sense. So hopefully soon, you’ll see the ability to create a new account and start your own profile on TVA.

But until then, get your quick video fix, vote and comment away!

Email It

This is one we’ve been meaning to put up for a while but haven’t had the chance. Just click on the “email” link under the video and you can send them off to any of your friends (considering they have an email address.)

We’ve also updated the design a bit as we experiment with the layout. Nothing extreme just a little tweaks here and there.

Popular Video Section Update

(Official Post Here)

One additional update for the popular video section. We’ve updated the rss feed for both Grouper and iFilm to pull a more frequently changing popular list. Unfortunately, Google is still only providing RSS for the top 100 which rarely changes.

Promote It!

(Official Post here)

We’ve added a new feature on The Video Awards which allows you now to promote your video. Now after posting your video you’ll be presented with a couple of new graphics that you can place right on your own website. We’ve got two now but i’m sure we’ll add some more.

Example 1:

Example 2:

New Blog Home!

Just a quick note to let everyone know that our official home for The Video Awards Blog is now at http://www.thevideoawards.com/blog. We’ll continue to post in both locations for awhile until everyone has moved. If you’re using the feeburner feed then you’ll be ok, but if you’re subscribed to the wordpress feed please make sure to update.

Thanks to WordPress for offering free blog, it’s a fantastic service. And also thanks to Michael Martine for offering some great advice. Be sure to check his blog out at http://gvod.blogspot.com/ or http://video-bubble-preview.blogspot.com/

TVA Minor Updates

Just a quick couple of notes.  We’ve update the homepage to now show the most popular for today.  This has changed from the most recent.  We’ve also added the ability to limit or expand the amount of videos shown on one page.  You can now show 3, 6, 12 or 24… we’ll see how these initial sets work and then tweak from there if needed.

TVA Team

New Design!

Well we finally got around updating our design. Not much change in the way of interaction, we more just made it easier to look at :). We still support all of your favorite video providers and we’re still adding them. We hope you enjoy this one alittle more.

Thanks, and keep the feedback coming in.

TVA Team

More RSS Feeds

Good news in the way of RSS.  We have some additional feeds for your aggregating pleasure.  First thing to note is on the most voted page we are now allowing you to see most voted videos by today, this week, this month or ever.  And to go along with that you can also subscribe to any of the feeds for the most voted of today, this week, this month or ever (via feedster).  If you were subscribed to the original most voted feed then you will now be seeing the days most popular videos.

Also a word out to the video providers, please please please start providing some valuable rss feeds of your content.  Most importantly a most popular/featured which changes more than once a year and some facility to do a tag search.  We won’t name any names but you know who you are. 

Hopefully in the days/weeks to come we’ll be working on getting the actual video as an enclosure in the feed.  So stayed tuned here for the latest.

TVA Team

Google Video New Launch and the Lack of RSS!

Mashable writes about the new European launch.

Google Video still lags YouTube for a number of reasons, but I think the core problem was its early failure to tap into the prime demographic: the 15-25 year old MySpace user.
Another reason i’d like to point out is that YouTube provides far superior RSS feeds than Google and for that matter any other provider I’ve encountered.  And in our opinion, this is so critical in these types of sites.  We’re planning more features for TVA but it makes it difficult when so many providers do not provide RSS Feeds.  GO YOUTUBE!

TVA Team