New Yahoo! Video launches

Take notice, aspiring multimedia ingénues—the latest version of Yahoo! Video is up, running and ready for your premiere. Publishers now have the ability to upload their video content directly to Yahoo!, manage, tag and share it with others—including the ability publish video to their own Web pages or blogs:

Yahoo! Video lets you: 

• Manage and share your original content with Yahoo! users and the world with MyStudio
• Easily browse for what’s new on the Web
• Choose video from an expanded index, including more user-submitted Media-RSS feeds, direct feeds from major video publishers, and video crawled from the Web
• Create channels: groups of videos created by a common source. In the search results, we match channels to your query and display them in the left column, and when relevant, next to the video results. Just by uploading a single video, publishers can begin creating their own individual channels.
• Manage videos and channels you’ve added while searching with MyFavorites. MyFavorites helps you keep up-to-date on channels you like, as well as bookmark your favorite videos. Favorites can also be exported as a Media RSS feed, for those who subscribe and follow online content using an RSS reader or to share with friends.
• Share your original content with friends and users, whether by email or by sending links through Yahoo! Instant Messenger
• Embed a video player window into a blog or Web page and play your video content by copying and pasting code that we provide.

This is a huge plus for the publishers in our network, as it provides a consistent experience for your end users, regardless of how you plan to distribute your video content.

Who knows? Maybe you’ll be the next Peter Jackson—or the next Ed Wood.

Try it out for yourself.

Congrats, Yahoo! Video team! 

– The Yahoo! Publisher Network Team