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		<title>Life Outside YouTube: Other Places to Host Your Videos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea Edmunds]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Has YouTube Red got you feeling a little bit nervous about the future of your content on the platform? Did you refuse to sign the new subscription agreement (or weren&#8217;t able to like ESPN) and now YouTube has blocked your content from ever being seen by anybody ever again? Or do you just want to [&#8230;]</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/news/youtube-red-new-subscription-option/">YouTube Red</a> got you feeling a little bit nervous about the future of your content on the platform? Did you refuse to sign the new subscription agreement (<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/youtube-red-creators/">or weren&#8217;t able to like ESPN</a>) and now YouTube has blocked your content from ever being seen by anybody ever again? Or do you just want to poke around and see what else is out there in case YouTube users revolt en masse at the idea of subscriptions? Regardless of your reasons, the launch of YouTube Red is a good time to at least revisit what other options are out there for your video content.</p>
<p>We took a look at some of the top video platform competitors for amateurs and professionals. Here are some of the best options if you&#8217;re breaking with YouTube:</p>
<p><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/69488302?color=ffffff&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="800" height="450" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><em><a href="https://vimeo.com/69488302">The Story of Vimeo</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/brandpartnerships">Vimeo Brand Partnerships</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</em></p>
<p>1. <strong>Vimeo</strong> – While YouTube can have anything from cat videos shot on a cell phone in 2006 to full length movies, <a title="Vimeo" href="http://www.Vimeo.com">Vimeo</a> is the go-to for many professional and artistic videographers. Vimeo receives <a href="https://vimeo.com/about/advertisers">170 million unique visitors</a> per month and simply cannot be ignored. If a video uploaded to Vimeo is of high enough quality, it can be promoted to the front page and receive a gigantic audience. If you&#8217;re trying to decide whether or not your content will be successful on Vimeo, check out some of the popular videos on the front page and around the web so you can see if your tone fits with what is working on the site. Even if your videos aren&#8217;t super artistic or you&#8217;re not a professional, Vimeo is definitely the best alternative to YouTube in terms of platform support, audience, and metrics.</p>
<p>2. <strong>Facebook</strong> – The social media giant is seriously gunning to become more than just the place where your friends post too many baby or vacation pictures or a place you scroll through when you&#8217;re bored. They&#8217;ve made several big improvements to their video platform, including sharing ad revenue with video creators, putting their video platform in direct competition with YouTube. If you&#8217;re looking for a platform with a large audience base, Facebook will definitely work well for you (when a near quarter of the world&#8217;s population is on the platform, audience is the last thing you need to worry about). But if you&#8217;re looking for longevity you might be better off with Vimeo, once a video passes out of users&#8217; newsfeeds, it tends to drop significantly in its engagement &#8211; something Facebook will need to figure out if they want to be a serious contender in the video hosting world.</p>
<p>3. <strong>Video Monetization Sites</strong> – If you&#8217;re more interested in monetizing your videos rather than having lots of people view them, you may want to consider one of the many platforms for video monetization. These sites are as far from YouTube as you can get, but if you&#8217;re serious about licensing your video content, and have a pretty solid list of customers interested in doing it, this might be a good option for you. Typically these sites will allow you to have  personally branded page that hosts only your content that you can drive potential customers to so they can view and license your content. Some companies that you may want to consider if you go this route: <a href="https://www.brightcove.com/en/">Brightcove</a>, <a href="http://www.mediashowroom.com">MediaShowroom</a>, or <a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/Products/Video-Applications/Kaltura-Video-Management-Console">Kaltura</a> are good options depending on what you want out of your video management platforms.</p>
<p>No matter what platform you end up choosing to go with &#8211; even if you&#8217;re sticking with YouTube, you need a simple and effective way to move your videos around. Wispeo helps you share videos that aren&#8217;t for the masses, simply and effectively. Plus, Wispeo is now mobile! You can easily share long videos from your phone with anyone who wants to see them &#8211; or just send them to yourself so you can easily edit them on a desktop computer. Get the easiest way to share videos and photos from your phone in the <a href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fitunes.apple.com%2fapp%2fapple-store%2fid1036268435%3fpt%3d98921809%26ct%3dBlog%26mt%3d8" target="_blank">App Store</a> or from <a href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fplay.google.com%2fstore%2fapps%2fdetails%3fid%3dcom.mainstreamdata.wispeodroid" target="_blank">Google Play</a>.</p>
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		<title>YouTube Red New Subscription Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea Edmunds]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>YouTube is launching a new subscription service where users pay $9.99 a month to get ad-free videos, save videos offline on a mobile device to watch later, and gives users a background audio only option that keeps videos playing while you use other apps or turn off your screen &#8211; it&#8217;s called YouTube Red. It [&#8230;]</p>
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YouTube is launching a new subscription service where users pay $9.99 a month to get ad-free videos, save videos offline on a mobile device to watch later, and gives users a background audio only option that keeps videos playing while you use other apps or turn off your screen &#8211; it&#8217;s called YouTube Red.</p>
<p>It sounds like it could be a pretty sweet deal, and is definitely positioning YouTube as more than just an amateur video creator platform or home for weird cat videos, with YouTube gunning to create original content for YouTube Red following Netflix&#8217;s success with its original programming &#8230; though <a href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2015/10/red-originals.html">YouTube&#8217;s original content offerings</a> definitely take a different direction in their themes, focusing on creating partnerships with some of YouTube&#8217;s current top stars.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll see if YouTube&#8217;s current user demographic (used to getting everything for free and skewing pretty young) will pony up the cash for the subscription. If you do decide to go with the subscription option, definitely wait to get it on October 28 directly from YouTube on the web, <a href="http://gizmodo.com/dont-buy-your-youtube-red-subscription-on-ios-1737961156">you&#8217;ll pay an extra three dollars</a> through Apple&#8217;s in-app purchase platform. Then you can sign in to the app and get the benefits on your phone without Apple&#8217;s 30% mark up.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re not sure how the new subscription service will affect content creators. Some things seem somewhat alarming at first blush &#8211; like the fact that creators who don&#8217;t agree to the new subscription terms will have their <a href="http://gizmodo.com/youtubers-are-up-in-arms-about-youtube-red-1738022087">videos marked as private</a> and they won&#8217;t be able to be seen by anyone. But YouTube says 99% of their content creators have agreed to the new subscription terms. So maybe marking only 1% of videos private won&#8217;t be that big of a deal.</p>
<p>YouTube also hasn&#8217;t laid out how they&#8217;ll share revenue with content creators. They have said that the &#8220;majority&#8221; of revenue will go to the creators, but that&#8217;s a pretty vague term. Currently content creators get 55 percent of the advertising revenue on their videos. In theory, this should only help add revenue for content creators, right? They&#8217;ll still get their ad-supported revenue from the free YouTube, and then the official <a href="http://youtubecreator.blogspot.com/2015/10/meet-youtube-red-ultimate-youtube_37.html">YouTube blog</a> says, &#8220;YouTube Red will play an important role in expanding user engagement on YouTube and provide creators like you with an additional way to get paid for the content you’re already creating.&#8221; Unless however they carve out $9.99 between all the videos subscribers watch ends up coming out far less than what the content creator would have gotten with ads.</p>
<p>Right now is probably not the time to worry. We&#8217;ll see how things go when the service is released to the masses on the 28th. We just hope that YouTube will still continue to be the awesome place we can go to find great videos from great <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/category/featured-creative/">artists</a>.</p>
<p>In the meantime, you can still use Wispeo to send and share videos that aren&#8217;t for the masses at YouTube, free or otherwise. Share videos with your family, friends, and colleagues with Wispeo, now available in the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wispeo/id1036268435?mt=8">App Store</a> and from <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mainstreamdata.wispeodroid">Google Play</a>.</p>
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		<title>Wispeo is Now Mobile!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea Edmunds]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Wispeo has been an awesome source for sending large files too big for email. Now we&#8217;re excited to announce that Wispeo is going mobile and is now available in the App Store and on Google Play! If this makes you so excited you just want to download all the apps, go ahead and head over [&#8230;]</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wispeo has been an awesome source for sending large files too big for email. Now we&#8217;re excited to announce that Wispeo is going mobile and is now available in the App Store and on Google Play! If this makes you so excited you just want to download all the apps, go ahead and head over to the app stores now, we won&#8217;t be offended.</p>
<p><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1036268435?pt=98921809&amp;ct=Blog&amp;mt=8"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1671" src="http://blog.wispeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Apple-Store-Button-300x104.png" alt="Apple-Store-Button" width="300" height="104" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mainstreamdata.wispeodroid"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1670" src="http://blog.wispeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Google-Play-button-300x101.png" alt="Google-Play-button" width="300" height="101" /></a></p>
<p>But if you want to learn more about Wispeo for mobile, you can stick around.</p>
<p>Wispeo allows you to easily send full-length, high resolution videos and photos from your iPhone to anyone with an email address. Ideal for ANYONE that shoots video on their phone – from parents recording a child’s game, performance, or birthday party to videographers shooting mobile video for clients. Share and gather video from events, projects, and memories. Here are just a few of the ways Wispeo has been used already, how will you use it?</p>
<ul>
<li>The parents in the front row (and therefore the best view/video) used Wispeo to share a video of a child’s ballet performance with the parents in the back row (who may or may not have been a bit late)</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/why-wispeo-should-be-in-your-wedding/">WEDDING GUESTS</a> used Wispeo to send videos of the big day and well wishes for the bride and groom</li>
<li>Loads of people have used Wispeo to share long video clips from their phone that were too big to email and got super <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/why-video-compression-matters/">compressed through text messaging</a></li>
<li>Other have used Wispeo to share awesome videos from a concert for the friend who couldn’t make it</li>
<li>The MARKETING DEPARTMENT at work used Wispeo to share a video project they’re working on together.</li>
<li>A college student used Wispeo to share (and ultimately submit to the professor) a large and visually intense POWERPOINT PRESENTATION with each other so they can collaborate on a group project</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/tag/featured-creative/">VIDEOGRAPHERS</a> have used Wispeo to share drafts and the final version of a video for a client</li>
<li>Other video professionals have used Wispeo to submit videos to contests because they were too big for WeTransfer</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/tag/featured-creative/">Professional photographers</a> use Wispeo to send large batches of HI-RES PHOTOS without zipping them or adding them to a new folder</li>
<li>I have used Wispeo to get an awesome photo off my computer and onto my phone so I could easily post it to <a href="http://instagram.com/wispeo">Instagram</a> (while Wispeo was a lifesaver here, this is my desperate plea to Instagram: Please let us post directly from our desktops!!! Not all shareable pictures are taken on a phone!)</li>
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<p>For those that are new to Wispeo, here&#8217;s how the app works:<a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/wispeo-home-screen.jpg"><img class=" size-medium wp-image-1685 alignright" src="http://blog.wispeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/wispeo-home-screen-169x300.jpg" alt="wispeo-home-screen" width="169" height="300" /></a></p>
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<li>Use the Wispeo app to access your phone&#8217;s photo roll and contact list.</li>
<li>From here out it&#8217;s kind of obvious, but we&#8217;ll still detail it. Select which videos and photos you’d like to send</li>
<li>Choose the email address you’d like to be notified at when the files have been delivered (this can be saved for the future)</li>
<li>Choose what email address or addresses you’d like to send files to (you can wisp files to up to 50 people)</li>
<li>Choose what formats (if any) you’d like your video files to be converted into (you don&#8217;t have to convert your files, but if you want to optimize your video for an iPad or large computer screen, or other device, this is where you can do the free video conversion)</li>
<li>Share a message, if you’d like, for your friends to see when they get their files (ie. &#8220;Yo dawg, this vid rocks&#8221; &#8230; is dawg still a word people use or have I just dated myself?)</li>
<li>Once you hit “SEND” we’ll wisp the files and let you know via email when they’ve been delivered</li>
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<p>Wispeo is hitting the market at the right time. We’ve been trained to shorten, condense, or delete our videos – from 6-second Vine clips on Twitter to only shooting short videos on our phones so they won’t get compressed when we text them to deleting a couple videos that seem less important to open up some space in our Dropbox or iCloud accounts. Wispeo allows you to once again share the WHOLE VIDEO – the whole story – with the people you want to see it. You can get your videos off your phone – easily and wirelessly – and shared with everyone that can enjoy them instead of languishing in a cloud storage folder somewhere or at the back of your photo roll.</p>
<p>And with Apple&#8217;s new announcement about <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/news/big-day-for-mobile-photography-at-apple-event/">4k video capability on their new iPhone</a>, those massive files will not be easy to share. Wispeo is needed now more than ever.</p>
<p>Final thought: I touched on this a bit earlier, but Wispeo also works as a FREE VIDEO CONVERTER, allowing you to share your videos in a format that will work best for the person you’re sending it to. Whether you need your video optimized for smartphones, tablets, or higher-resolution screens, you can choose what format you want to convert your video to and Wispeo will transcode it for you.</p>
<p>So go ahead and install Wispeo today from the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1036268435?pt=98921809&amp;ct=Blog&amp;mt=8">App Store</a> or <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mainstreamdata.wispeodroid">Google Play</a>.</p>
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		<title>Big Day for Mobile Photography at Apple Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2015 18:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea Edmunds]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>After weeks of Siri giving cryptic answers and telling us to be patient when we asked her to “give us a hint”, we finally know for sure that Apple is releasing the new iPhones 6s/6s+ with some pretty sweet camera features, a souped-up Apple TV with a gaming and app focus, and new larger iPad [&#8230;]</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After weeks of <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/08/siri-new-give-us-a-hint-responses/">Siri giving cryptic answers</a> and telling us to be patient when we asked her to “give us a hint”, we finally know for sure that Apple is releasing the new iPhones 6s/6s+ with some pretty sweet camera features, a souped-up Apple TV with a gaming and app focus, and new larger iPad Pro. Here are a couple of our favorite video and camera updates from today&#8217;s event:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/gopro-apple-watch.jpg"><img class=" size-medium wp-image-1490 alignright" src="http://blog.wispeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/gopro-apple-watch-300x200.jpg" alt="gopro apple watch" width="300" height="200" /></a>The first awesome video-related feature Apple announced was that GoPro is coming to the Apple Watch. You can now use your watch as your viewfinder for the camera – it looks like it will be a pretty slick app and easy way to manage your shots.</p>
<p>The iPad is new and improved (&#8220;the biggest news in iPad since the iPad&#8221; was a bit much): iPad Pro &#8211; something that looks like Apple is trying to take a direct hit at Microsoft&#8217;s Surface Pro. The iPad Pro is larger with a 5k display, 8-megapixel camera, and a far more powerful processor. It also has a 4-speaker sound system. This will allow for an awesome video playback and Adobe showed off how the faster processor makes it easier to edit and manage photos on the iPad. Loved CNET&#8217;s take on the &#8220;Apple Pencil&#8221;:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Meet Apple Pencil. <a href="https://twitter.com/sharatibken">@sharatibken</a> jokes &#8220;hell must have frozen over&#8221; (live blog) <a href="http://t.co/CS6bHcXTJi">http://t.co/CS6bHcXTJi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AppleEvent?src=hash">#AppleEvent</a> <a href="http://t.co/i7azikfo5C">pic.twitter.com/i7azikfo5C</a></p>
<p>— CNET (@CNET) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNET/status/641665745584291840">September 9, 2015</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>We’ve already talked about how <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/how-to-shoot-video-on-an-iphone/">iPhone is the most popular camera</a> in the world, and now Apple has announced that iPhone 6 is the most popular phone in the world with its year-over-year growth. Apple says they&#8217;ve changed everything about the phone (except how it looks), but we&#8217;re most excited about the camera improvements. Schiller announced that the new iPhone 6s and 6s+ have a 12 megapixel rear camera, &#8220;50% more pixels than before&#8221;, 50% more focus pixels so autofocus is faster, and new technology to get more accurate color. This will be awesome, especially combined with the 4K video recording and the 5-megapixel front-facing camera &#8211; taking the <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/capture-extreme-video-using-a-selfie-stick/">selfie game</a> to a whole new level of clearness.</p>
<p>The iPhone 6s and 6s+ will be able to shoot 4k video, meaning that they have 8 million pixels in every frame. It will be hard to appreciate the 4k video on the smaller iPhone screen, but when you <a href="http://www.wispeo.com">wisp these ginormous videos</a> to yourself so you can view them on a desktop or TV screen, they&#8217;ll be amazing! Schiller also announced that you can edit the 4k videos in iMovie right on the iPhone 6s.</p>
<p>One more photo feature: Schiller talked about a new feature called Live Photos. It takes photos before and after when you snap your image to &#8220;extend the capture moment&#8221;. You can see your Live Photos on the Apple Watch and do some cool things there. The iPhone 6s commercial showed that if you tap and hold an image, the Live Photos can kind of play together and make the photos move?</p>
<p>One feature we’re kind of excited about that wasn&#8217;t discussed at the event, but <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2015/08/27/iphone-6s-motion-wallpapers/">rumored beforehand</a> and kind of shown off in demos is that Apple is releasing Motion backgrounds on the iPhones. They did talk about video screensavers on the Apple TV (which is nice because we were getting REALLY tired of seeing the same 10 Getty Images as the screensavers). The AppleTV backgrounds were shot exclusively for Apple and will automatically change from day to night shots depending on what time you&#8217;re watching TV. The rumors are that the iPhone Motion backgrounds can incorporate timelapses, videos, or cinemagraphs. We think it will look really awesome, fingers crossed that we&#8217;ll hear more about it when people start demoing the phones.</p>
<p>What are you most excited about with Apple&#8217;s event today? Do you think they have awesome new camera features that will blow photographers and videographers away? Or are they just catching up with the rest of the market? Tell us what you think below!</p>
<p><span style="color: #33cccc;">Wispeo is now mobile! Get the easiest way to share videos and photos from your phone in the <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fitunes.apple.com%2fapp%2fapple-store%2fid1036268435%3fpt%3d98921809%26ct%3dBlog%26mt%3d8" target="_blank">App Store</a> or from <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fplay.google.com%2fstore%2fapps%2fdetails%3fid%3dcom.mainstreamdata.wispeodroid" target="_blank">Google Play</a>.</span></p>
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		<title>5 Reasons Wispeo Makes Back To School Awesome</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 22:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea Edmunds]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Ah September, the sweet time when we can kick back and celebrate school before all the work, exhaustion, and general apathy sets in and makes us wonder why we ever thought college would be a good idea. In September school is still full of the promise of all the things you’ll learn, how you’ll be [&#8230;]</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah September, the sweet time when we can kick back and celebrate school before all the work, exhaustion, and general apathy sets in and makes us wonder why we ever thought college would be a good idea.</p>
<p>In September school is still full of the promise of all the things you’ll learn, how you’ll be way more responsible with your time and not procrastinate this year, and all of the awesome fun memories you’ll make that will help you get through your 30s.</p>
<p>While you’re still high on school and how you’re really going to rock it this year, we wanted to tell you about a few ways you can use <a href="http://www.wispeo.com">Wispeo </a>to really make school (and your social life) work for you this year.</p>
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<li><strong>Use Wispeo to share your summer videos with all your friends</strong>. Sure, you probably made some awesome memories with your favorite friends from college, but there were a lot of times you had the camera rolling when not all of your friends were there and you have to share it with them too. Texting and Facebook <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/why-video-compression-matters/">compress the video</a> sometimes beyond recognition, fix this just by using Wispeo to share all of your videos longer than a minute with your friends. It’s a simple, one-shot way to get your video out to all of your friends. Letting your friends know what an awesome summer you had is an important part of making sure back to school rocks.</li>
<li><strong>Use Wispeo to share large files.</strong> “<a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/how-were-making-file-transfer-far-less-complicated/">Large file transfer</a>” is not a very sexy way to describe your product, but when you have a file that’s too large for email and you’re about resort to knocking doors to find a thumb drive big enough to store your project on, “large file transfer” starts sounding like the most beautiful thing in the world. Throw out all those old flash drives (at least the ones you haven’t lost already) and let Wispeo deliver your large files to classmates and professors.</li>
<li><strong>Use Wispeo to make group projects slightly easier.</strong> I’m not sure very many people like group projects. It takes a lot to make schedules work and there’s always that one procrastinator that makes you end up doing twice the work and it’s frustrating. Plus, coordinating getting all the versions of whatever the project is to everyone can be a hassle. Sure, Google docs work for a short paper, but what about when you’re trying to create a group video? Or build an image heavy design document? Or when you need to share a mobile app you’re building? Using Wispeo to help coordinate all of your projects with your whole team will help the whole project run more smoothly.</li>
<li><strong>Use Wispeo to convert videos into other formats</strong>. Speaking of those group video projects, use Wispeo to convert videos filmed on your phone into formats that play nicely with ALL other devices (even PCs). Having a tool with <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/why-wispeo-is-better-than-dropbox-wetransfer-and-texting/">free video conversion</a> already on your phone is a nice way to look really tech savvy.</li>
<li><strong>Use Wispeo to share future memories you make</strong>. Back to school means a lot of work, but it’s also a lot of fun. You can use Wispeo to share videos with friends and family back home of the campus events, sports games, and fun times you and your friends have outside of the classroom.</li>
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<p>We hope you weren’t using this article to procrastinate a homework assignment so early in the school year. But once you start to double down and get working on those projects, let <a href="http://www.wispeo.com">Wispeo</a> help you make at least one aspect of them a little bit easier.</p>
<p><span style="color: #33cccc;">Wispeo is now mobile! Get the easiest way to share videos and photos from your phone in the <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fitunes.apple.com%2fapp%2fapple-store%2fid1036268435%3fpt%3d98921809%26ct%3dBlog%26mt%3d8" target="_blank">App Store</a> or from <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fplay.google.com%2fstore%2fapps%2fdetails%3fid%3dcom.mainstreamdata.wispeodroid" target="_blank">Google Play</a>.</span></p>
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		<title>Can Facebook Dethrone YouTube on Video?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2015 21:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea Edmunds]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Facebook announced this week that they’re getting serious about video piracy. They released “new video matching technology [that can] alert selected content creators if their videos [are] reposted to Facebook without permission.” Facebook is serious about their video platform and this latest release is just one of many moves they’ve made to position themselves as serious video [&#8230;]</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Facebook announced this week that they’re getting serious about video piracy. They <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34106475">released</a> “new video matching technology [that can] alert selected content creators if their videos [are] reposted to Facebook without permission.” Facebook is serious about their video platform and this latest release is just one of many moves they’ve made to position themselves as serious video contenders against YouTube.</p>
<p>But does Facebook really have a chance against the longstanding video giant?</p>
<p>There’s a good incentive for them to try. In 2014 video accounted for 67% of all internet traffic. And <a href="http://www.cisco.com/web/solutions/sp/vni/vni_forecast_highlights/index.html">Cisco predicts</a> that by 2019 video will move up to 80% of all traffic. This means money is definitely moving away from traditional display ads and toward video-sponsored ads, so there is a lot of pressure on the current internet giants to get video right, right now.</p>
<p>Recently some ado has been made about how much traction <a href="http://oneproductions.com/Facebook-Native-Video-is-Engaging-Brands-Gifographic.gif">Facebook-native video</a> has been getting on Facebook. The numbers are pretty impressive – by the last quarter of 2014, 80% of interactions with video on Facebook went to Facebook-native video (meaning videos uploaded directly to Facebook and not shared there from another platform). Most of that 80% interaction was won from YouTube videos shared on the social media platform, YouTube went from 32% at the beginning of the year to 13% at the end of it.</p>
<p>There are a lot of factors that go into Facebook’s winning numbers though, so the boost may not be as significant as it seems. First off, Facebook autoplays native video, that alone probably makes their interaction numbers go through the roof. Facebook also controls the algorithm for how content is displayed in a user’s news feed, so it’s a pretty safe bet that native video gets seen more and therefore gets more likes and shares based on the higher volume of eyeballs that see the video. Plus, those numbers are just on the Facebook platform. Statistics show that over its life, a video on YouTube gets more engagement than on Facebook.</p>
<p>From a video creator perspective YouTube is still leaps and bounds ahead on security controls, automatically blocking content that appears to infringe on copyright. YouTube also offers better and more robust statistics and multi-platform viability to video creators – though Facebook is catching up, introducing a view counter at the end of last year and creating embed options early in 2015.</p>
<p>YouTube has a tried and tested ad-sharing platform that will continue to encourage video creators to post their videos on that platform. Facebook announced earlier this year that they’re going to start <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33362722">sharing ad revenue with video creators</a> with a new “suggested videos” feed, but it’s unclear exactly how that revenue model will break down right now. Finally, YouTube also has an awesome search engine behind it – both on the platform and on Google results – so videos don’t move out of a news feed and get lost in obscurity.</p>
<p>But half of the online world uses Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Facebook passed 1 billion in one day mark – 1 in 7 people in the world were on the platform at some time during the day.</p>
<p>Facebook says that they’re committed to develop a “comprehensive video management system”, so that should be enough to at least give YouTube pause.</p>
<p>Either way, with more and more videos being created and shared online, it’s important that everyone has a tool to easily move and share their videos across multiple devices and with multiple people. Wispeo makes sharing high-resolution videos super easy, allowing a user to send up to 3GB of data for free to anyone with an email address. Plus, Wispeo works as a free video converter allowing you to convert your videos into several different formats that play nice with other devices.</p>
<p>Soon, with the Wispeo apps for iOS and Android, you’ll be able to easily get HD videos off your phone and with the people who want to watch them. Watch for the app in mid-September.</p>
<p>What do you think: can Facebook really overtake YouTube as the No. 1 video platform on the internet?</p>
<p><span style="color: #33cccc;">Wispeo is now mobile! Get the easiest way to share videos and photos from your phone in the <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fitunes.apple.com%2fapp%2fapple-store%2fid1036268435%3fpt%3d98921809%26ct%3dBlog%26mt%3d8" target="_blank">App Store</a> or from <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fplay.google.com%2fstore%2fapps%2fdetails%3fid%3dcom.mainstreamdata.wispeodroid" target="_blank">Google Play</a>.</span></p>
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		<title>Why Wispeo Should Be In Your Wedding</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 21:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea Edmunds]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Ok, maybe you shouldn’t have someone wearing a Wispeo teal suit standing up as part of your wedding party, but you should definitely involve Wispeo in your wedding, especially if you want to capture all the special memories of one of the more significant days of your life. While your wedding videographer and photographer are [&#8230;]</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, maybe you shouldn’t have someone wearing a Wispeo teal suit standing up as part of your wedding party, but you should definitely involve Wispeo in your wedding, especially if you want to capture all the special memories of one of the more significant days of your life.</p>
<p>While your wedding videographer and photographer are going to get amazing shots of the bride and groom, do you really think they’re going to capture the best images of your guests really celebrating your day? Not everyone in the wedding party will be happy about standing in the sun doing the awkward Pinterest poses.</p>
<p>That’s not news. Most people know this which is why many weddings post a wedding hashtag at events for Instagram goodness. But even then, are you really getting the <em>best</em> photos and videos of the day? Your wedding guests, no matter how many great videos they take wishing you the best in your new life, will be limited by both resolution and time limits sharing to social media (and maybe not wanting to overwhelm <strong>their</strong> followers’ feeds with pictures from <strong>your</strong> wedding).</p>
<p>Enter Wispeo. Your guests and friends can take as many high resolution, longer than 30 seconds videos of them enjoying your big day as they want and can easily wisp ALL of their photos and videos to you in one fell swoop. They get to make sure you know how awesome the whole day was and you get to see your friends celebrating you from every angle.</p>
<p>Why wouldn’t you want to use Wispeo to make your wedding better?</p>
<p>Our mobile apps will be available soon (for both Android and iOS), so start planning how you’re going to let your friends, family, and guests know that the easiest way to save the memories from your special day is to use Wispeo.</p>
<p><span style="color: #33cccc;">Wispeo is now mobile! Get the easiest way to share videos and photos from your phone in the <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fitunes.apple.com%2fapp%2fapple-store%2fid1036268435%3fpt%3d98921809%26ct%3dBlog%26mt%3d8" target="_blank">App Store</a> or from <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fplay.google.com%2fstore%2fapps%2fdetails%3fid%3dcom.mainstreamdata.wispeodroid" target="_blank">Google Play</a>.</span></p>
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		<title>Why Wispeo is Better than Dropbox, WeTransfer, and Texting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea Edmunds]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>You’ve probably heard us say it before a time or two (or three), but we really do love Wispeo. We think it’s an awesome way to share full resolution videos from our phone with the people who need to see it. Plus, it also works as a free video converter so I can get my [&#8230;]</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You’ve probably heard us say it before a <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/why-we-love-wispeo/">time</a> or <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/how-wispeo-works-connecting-every-story/">two</a> (or <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/introducing-wispeo-n-the-startup-that-helps-you-send-high-quality-media/">three</a>), but we really do love <a href="http://beta.wispeo.com">Wispeo</a>. We think it’s an awesome way to share full resolution videos from our phone with the people who need to see it. Plus, it also works as a <a href="http://beta.wispeo.com">free video converter</a> so I can get my iPhone formatted video to work on other devices and play nice with other programs.</p>
<p>Since Wispeo is so new (beta for desktop available <a href="http://beta.wispeo.com">here</a>, mobile app soon available), we wanted to show you how Wispeo compares to some other more and less well known ways to share photos and videos out there in the wild.</p>
<p>When we first started to see a need for Wispeo, we asked people how they usually shared video files. From professional videographers to stay-at-home moms, they gave us several different ways they&#8217;ve cobbled together a solution to send video &#8211; though no one solution worked for them every time, they basically boiled down to a couple options: cloud storage (like <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/business?home=true&amp;_tk=sem_b_goog&amp;_kw=dropbox|e&amp;_net=sniFuvt0v|pcrid|45703489302|pmt|e|pkw|dropbox|pdv|c|&amp;_ad=45703489302|1t1|c&amp;_camp=sem-b-goog-us-eng-top-exact&amp;mkwid=sniFuvt0v|pcrid|45703489302|pmt|e|pkw|dropbox|pdv|c|&amp;gclid=Cj0KEQjwmNuuBRDTu5rDjr2kxJsBEiQAWlm6Ukp9qbszXUXRjjuoPsIBtJzwF7WhUfu1JVi8v4IIDeAaAnfn8P8HAQ">Dropbox</a> accounts), large file transfer sites (like <a href="https://www.wetransfer.com/">WeTransfer</a>), uploading a video to YouTube and downloading it in a new format (seriously, it&#8217;s a thing), <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/why-video-compression-matters/">text message</a>, social media, a flash drive (do people still have those?), and &#8211; last but not least &#8211; email.</p>
<p>All of these are options we&#8217;ve used more than once ourselves, but none of these options do everything we frequently need them to in order to get high resolution video off our phones or desktops into a usable format on another device. And most of them are a real pain most of the time.</p>
<p>Enter Wispeo. Here’s a little visual representation of where Wispeo fits into the market. <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wispeo-table-compare-to-dropbox-wetransfer.jpg">Click to see full size</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wispeo-table-compare-to-dropbox-wetransfer.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-1420" src="http://blog.wispeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wispeo-table-compare-to-dropbox-wetransfer.jpg" alt="wispeo table compare to dropbox wetransfer" width="800" height="552" /></a></p>
<p>A couple clarifications. When we talk about how Wispeo compares to social media as a whole we&#8217;re mostly thinking about the bigger photo and video sharing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Vine, and Snapchat.</p>
<p>When we compare Wispeo to cloud storage options we’re thinking mostly of DropBox since it’s what we’re most familiar with (and most of the other 400 million Dropbox users probably are too). We know, we know, iCloud and Google Drive are also cloud storage options, but they don&#8217;t have quite the same features that Dropbox does that make it easier to share video, but you could probably insert either one into the matrix above and it would still be true.</p>
<p>Also, we only compared Wispeo to WeTransfer and not other large file transfer sites since other sites don’t have quite the robust user and feature base they do. And when we shrug at WeTransfer&#8217;s app, it&#8217;s not that the app features don&#8217;t get the job done, it&#8217;s just that the app crashes A LOT when we try to use it and it takes an awfully long time.</p>
<p>So what do you think? How does Wispeo stack up against what’s out there? (Obvious answer: it is AWESOME. Do you see all those green check marks?!)</p>
<p>Use <a href="http://beta.wispeo.com">Wispeo</a> to send your large files of all types to anyone, anywhere through your computer. Our mobile app will be available soon on both iOS and Android.</p>
<p>So tell us, how will you use Wispeo?</p>
<p><span style="color: #33cccc;">Wispeo is now mobile! Get the easiest way to share videos and photos from your phone in the <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fitunes.apple.com%2fapp%2fapple-store%2fid1036268435%3fpt%3d98921809%26ct%3dBlog%26mt%3d8" target="_blank">App Store</a> or from <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fplay.google.com%2fstore%2fapps%2fdetails%3fid%3dcom.mainstreamdata.wispeodroid" target="_blank">Google Play</a>.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/why-wispeo-is-better-than-dropbox-wetransfer-and-texting/">Why Wispeo is Better than Dropbox, WeTransfer, and Texting</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.wispeo.com">Wispeo</a>.</p>
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		<title>Citizen Journalism: When Everyone Can Be a Videographer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 21:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea Edmunds]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Five billion people have smartphones in the world today. More than two billion have the ability to create high-quality video on their phones. Every week, smartphone users create forty million hours of video &#8211; while a lot of it gets a bad rep for being cat videos, many people use their mobile phones to film important news [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.wispeo.com/featured-creative/citizen-journalism-when-everyone-can-be-a-videographer/">Citizen Journalism: When Everyone Can Be a Videographer</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.wispeo.com">Wispeo</a>.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Five billion people have smartphones in the world today. More than two billion have the ability to create high-quality video on their phones. Every week, smartphone users create forty million hours of video &#8211; while a lot of it gets a bad rep for being cat videos, many people use their mobile phones to film important news events. This is giving rise to a new kind of journalism, where anyone could be filming the next big breaking news story.</p>
<p>We saw how it can be a good thing this past week, with the coverage of the explosion in China’s Tianjin port. People filming on their cell phones caught actual footage of the massive explosions (whose shockwaves were felt as far as six miles away) and showed immediate video and images of the aftermath of the destruction. It was an immediate way to let the world know about the damage and danger present and brought people together across the world and news organizations were able to supplement their coverage with user-created video.</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qARRLogg38k" width="800" height="450" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p>It can also be a good thing when people film police brutality or protests, exposing bad policies and creating safer environments – or after the Boston Marathon bombing when thousands of people uploaded their images and video from the event that helped to eventually identify the bombers.</p>
<p>Today many major news outlets are relying more and more on crowdsourcing coverage of news events. When storms roll in news stations frequently ask people to share images on Twitter of what it looks like where they are. Other organizations like CNN have created <a href="http://ireport.cnn.com/">entire websites</a> dedicated to citizen journalism.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/young-kid-with-camera.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1327 size-medium" src="http://blog.wispeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/young-kid-with-camera-200x300.jpg" alt="I mean, really, are we going to start having kids with smartphones be our most reliable news sources?" width="200" height="300" /></a>Those who argue against the ubiquity of citizen journalism – or just those people who use their phone to try to record everything – tend to tout safety as one reason journalism should be left to the professionals and why people shouldn’t go out of their way to get a dangerous video just for the YouTube fame. Think about the people taking <a href="http://www.yellowstonepark.com/2015/05/teen-gored-bison/">videos and photos of bison</a> in Yellowstone who were gored, or the man in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/10/man-gored-to-death-filming-bull-run-in-spain-on-mobile-phone">Spain filming the running of the bulls</a> who was killed.</p>
<p>While we think safety is paramount and don&#8217;t want to see people take unnecessary risks to get a good video, the rise of user-created video seems like a good thing to us. And with the availability of high-quality video cameras in so many people’s pockets, it seems likely that citizen journalism will only continue to grow and that many, many other smartphone users will keep recording in the hopes of catching that one big story.</p>
<p>However you feel about citizen video journalists out there in the world, <a href="http://beta.wispeo.com">Wispeo</a> is a great tool to get HD video shared from your mobile phones to the people who want and need to see it. <a href="http://beta.wispeo.com">Use Wispeo</a> to send all of your video files where you need them to go, and then check back in a couple weeks when the Wispeo iPhone and Android apps will be available.</p>
<p>What are your thoughts? Is having people with a smartphone and an HD video camera in their pocket helping the videography field, or hindering it?</p>
<p><span style="color: #33cccc;">Wispeo is now mobile! Get the easiest way to share videos and photos from your phone in the <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fitunes.apple.com%2fapp%2fapple-store%2fid1036268435%3fpt%3d98921809%26ct%3dBlog%26mt%3d8" target="_blank">App Store</a> or from <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fplay.google.com%2fstore%2fapps%2fdetails%3fid%3dcom.mainstreamdata.wispeodroid" target="_blank">Google Play</a>.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.wispeo.com/featured-creative/citizen-journalism-when-everyone-can-be-a-videographer/">Citizen Journalism: When Everyone Can Be a Videographer</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.wispeo.com">Wispeo</a>.</p>
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		<title>Why We Love Wispeo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea Edmunds]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We may be biased, but we feel like we’ve found in Wispeo something that actually answers frustrations and problems we have trying to work with and share video, especially from our phones. We love it, and we use it all the time. A brief overview on how Wispeo works: send your large files (video or [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/why-we-love-wispeo/">Why We Love Wispeo</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.wispeo.com">Wispeo</a>.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We may be biased, but we feel like we’ve found in Wispeo something that actually answers frustrations and problems we have trying to work with and share video, especially from our phones. We love it, and we use it all the time.</p>
<p>A brief overview on how Wispeo works: send your large files (video or anything else) to one or many people with just a few taps on your phone or computer. Wispeo sends the large files quickly and can even work as a free video converter – getting your videos into formats that work best on your big screen, computer, or smartphone. Whoever you send your videos to gets a link so they can easily download the full resolution video onto their device.</p>
<p>We put together a few ways we’ve used Wispeo to share our video below. See if any of the problems we faced hit close to home for you. All are true stories.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mom-videoing-son.jpg"><img class=" size-medium wp-image-1200 alignleft" src="http://blog.wispeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mom-videoing-son-300x200.jpg" alt="mom videoing son" width="300" height="200" /></a>First, I’ll start with why I like Wispeo. I just had my first baby. Before I wasn’t very good at taking pictures or video, but now I realize the absolute importance of recording every single laugh, smile, and messy meal. And sharing it with my family is so important. But texting a video longer than 1 minute means that it gets compressed and the video is grainy and gross. Wispeo made getting the HD video easy to and from my phone and my family&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Eric &#8211; a fan of Wispeo &#8211; worked at a physical therapy clinic. The company wanted to put a video on loop showing the staff doing some fun things and talking about health so patients could get to know the staff better. Eric shot a super sweet video on his iPhone of him doing some high-powered basketball dunks. But when he sent the video to his coworker, it wasn’t compatible with the program she was using. He tried everything and eventually created an account on and uploaded the video to YouTube where he could then download it in the right format. It was a long and painful process. When he had to send an additional video, he just used Wispeo, it converted the video into the right format while he was sending his coworker the video &#8211; no more late-night YouTube pain.</p>
<p>When Jessica got married, her florist wanted her to send him pictures of how the arrangements turned out on the big day. She had a ton of awesome pictures that were way too big for email. She tried WeTransfer, but it didn’t work – and he lived too far out of her way for her to drop off a flash drive. Three years after her wedding, she was finally able to wisp him her pictures … and we’re sure everyone is living happily every after.</p>
<p>Sarah works as a freelance book designer. One of her clients (admittedly low tech) dropped off a book project and asked Sarah to physically mail the completed digital version to her on a flash drive. Sarah (admittedly too reliant on her computer sometimes) wasn’t entirely sure she knew where to buy stamps, so she wisped the large PDF and InDesign files to her client for far less than the postage would have cost (Wispeo was free). Both Sarah and the client were happy.</p>
<p>Some of the videographers and photographers we&#8217;ve featured on Wispeo had some great things to say about it too:</p>
<p>&#8220;Very impressed with simplicity and ease of using the Wispeo GUI &#8211; excellent. I feel really honoured to be on Wispeo and will be using it and spreading the word on how good and fast it is.&#8221; <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/guest-blog/an-insiders-look-at-motion-design-with-gary-bird/">Gary Bird</a></p>
<p>&#8220;I loved using Wispeo! it was incredibly simple to use and I will most definitely be using it again in the future. I usually send photos to clients via flash drives, but if Wispeo is free [<em>ed. note: it is</em>] I would absolutely switch over.&#8221; <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/featured-creative/featured-creative-heather-burris/">Heather Burris</a></p>
<p>&#8220;I liked how fast and convenient it was sending my videos through Wispeo.&#8221; <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/featured-creative-madison-pratt/">Madison Pratt</a></p>
<p>“Loved the beta version for getting my photos to you. It was simple and fast! #easyphotoshare #simple.&#8221; <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/featured-creative/featured-creative-ryan-allred/">Ryan Allred</a></p>
<p>“I&#8217;m sending the photos through Wispeo (it&#8217;s cool, they&#8217;re uploading now and I&#8217;m excited to see how it works!).&#8221; <a href="http://blog.wispeo.com/featured-creative/featured-creative-clara-sumsion/">Clara Sumsion</a></p>
<p>Those are just a few of the stories of how we’ve made Wispeo work for us. We use it all the time at work, in fact, we’ve probably used it every day since the beta version came out. We use it to collaborate on our marketing videos and share rough cuts, drafts, and finished products with our entire team. It’s made our video creation process run much better now that we don’t all have to gather around one computer to watch it, or do a complex game of share-the-flash-drive around the office.</p>
<p>We love Wispeo, and think you&#8217;ll love it too. Check out how simple Wispeo is to use at <a href="http://www.wispeo.com">wispeo.com</a>.</p>
<p><span style="color: #33cccc;">Wispeo is now mobile! Get the easiest way to share videos and photos from your phone in the <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fitunes.apple.com%2fapp%2fapple-store%2fid1036268435%3fpt%3d98921809%26ct%3dBlog%26mt%3d8" target="_blank">App Store</a> or from <a style="color: #33cccc;" href="https://webmail.mainstreamdata.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=25179b78a4274c088da12386a50a29c1&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fplay.google.com%2fstore%2fapps%2fdetails%3fid%3dcom.mainstreamdata.wispeodroid" target="_blank">Google Play</a>.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.wispeo.com/wispeo/why-we-love-wispeo/">Why We Love Wispeo</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.wispeo.com">Wispeo</a>.</p>
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