For $50 a month (after paying $250 the first month) you can buy a program that automatically uploads your video onto multiple video sharing sites. I would not recommend looking at their site as it may blind you or make you cry. It is the web page version of an infomercial, complete with”order now” special deals and too many exclaimation points. I’m a little thrown off by the fact that this product is useful “even if you don’t have any video, and don’t own a camera” [paraphrase]. I don’t think many video sharing sites support audio files. However, the premise is simple and is very useful for those who have no loyalty to any particular video site. You pick your video, fill out one form, and then you can walk away knowing that you’re video will pop up on vimeo, vsocial, zippyvideos, bolt, among others. (don’t think jumpcut is included. 
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It’s absolutely ridiculous that they are asking for that much money. It’s just an app that takes your chosen file, and runs a script that fills in the necessary info for each of the upload pages for each video sites. There is nothing that is technologically impressive. I’m tempted to write my own and undercut their price. (mmm, open source…)
Perhaps what one pays for is maintainence. After all, the upload pages may change, and the company may have to alter some variables to make the product work. I wonder if the product uploads your video to their servers and then uploads to the other sites (what I would expect if I were paying $50 a month), or if it just directly uploads to the sites (costing the consumer time and bandwith).
I would never pay that much for this type of service but I hope the site gets a lot of sales and does well for itself. In a few months time there will be others and the price will only go down.
I see you have LJ crossposting up by the “Originally published At..” — Huzzah.
Now I subscribe to you in my full-fledged RSS reader!
And you know — that’s totally what Livejournal needs to do; allow people to add RSS feeds to their friends page. It makes about as much sense as anything else.
Anyway, on topic, if you write something like that, you’d obviate a stupid business model. Which is a win. Meanwhile, this is the sort of thing that will either take off or die horribly; mostly though, if you want a soapbox to send your videos from, you probably don’t need this service — it seems more geared toward advertisers looking in the “people-browsing-Youtube” space. Which may or may not be successful.
I dunno. Anyway.
That is the kind of webpage I just wouldn’t trust.
It looks like (and possibly is) a scam and the amount of money they want for doing a little leg work is crazy!
The most crazy thing is that they are advertising the google rank of websites like google video and ifilm as their own work!
If you submit a video with a unique name to youtube or google video (or even wikipedia) then of course google will pick it up!
Shocking, i wish people would pay me that kind of money to upload content for them!
That’s way too much to pay for that! Someone should be stabbed.
In other news, send me your email address for a joost invite