First look at Indian video sharing networks

Published at April 14, 2007 Filed Under India, Video, Web 2.0

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I came through some of the video sharing networks operating in India. I would really appreciate their efforts but most of the sites are youtube clones and they dont have much unique content to offer.

Most of these sites rely on songs, movie promos and stuff from other video sites. If they have to keep their share of visitors then they should focus on encouraging users to post by giving some incentives. Unique user generated content always attracts the visitors than the movie related stuff. Allowing people to embed videos in their blogs also helps in increasing the traffic. Some of these sites are allowing adult content, this will attract some visitors but that will not help you to sustain in the long run.

I have to raise a few points here:
How many Indians have the broadband connections to see the online videos.
How many of we have digital cam coders to generate video content and share with others.
Running a video sharing network is not an easy task in terms of operational costs. If they handful of visitors they need to pay hefty amounts for bandwidth providers and how do they monetize these sites in the long run is a big question to me.

List of sites operating in this domain:

Aapkavideo
Apnatube
Meravideo
Canara video
videodubba
konkantv

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6 Responses to “First look at Indian video sharing networks”

nikhil
May 4th, 2007 2:20 am

Please visit http://www.canaravideo.com
It is really nice and fast…ofcourse every user may like it …
SUNITHA
May 12th, 2007 11:24 pm

hi great job to list all video websites together. i saw all the websites and was cmparing the download speed in alexa surprisingly wwwcanaravideo.com came the fastest in India. when i compared the number of videos http://www.canaravideo is still the same number one site. its really cool… but they need to improve specially they have to give rss feed and offline downloading too i really do not know how they manage the cost factor
ram
May 13th, 2007 4:21 pm

@Sunitha

Alexa stats are useless for comparing with other sites.
I checked this site, design looks outdated and doesn’t feel like visiting second time. Its better if they could redesign it well.

If you want to download look at the source code you will find direct linking to files, this makes anyone to download the videos with out any effort.
Nihar Bajaj
May 15th, 2007 8:17 pm

hi Sunitha,

Its true that http://www.canaravideo.com is a great and amazing site. They are doing a great job and nice design too.
Its lovely and am already addicted to this site.

Keep it up. Its a great job by the team of http://www.canaravideo.com

Nihar
Rakesh Bose Raj
September 29th, 2007 2:27 pm

well the real war for India based video sharing site is between rediff’s ishare and dekhona.com
rediff is a horizontal while dekhona.com is focused like youtube.
may the best win!!
ram
September 29th, 2007 2:50 pm

@Rakesh
LOL what are you comparing buddy, dekhina.com is nowhere in comparison with rediff iShare.