1/2/08

Political Videos Will Dominate 2008

Happy New Year 2008!

And welcome to election year 2008. The Iowa caucuses kick off the election season tomorrow and by November another aspect of the Internet will have been changed by politics.

It was the 2004 election cycle that turned blogs from being online diaries into a trusted and reliable new medium. We forecast 2008 will do the same thing for web video.

Technology improvements and greater access by web users to high speed Internet connections are allowing web distributed video to become part of many marketing campaigns. The politicians and political bloggers commenting on them from the sidelines will take web video to a new level this year.

StageGold is happy to be part of the process. We have recently added full screen viewing capability to our Flash video players, along with custom player skin selection. We'll have more functionality soon.

Perhaps the area our player excels at the best is the ability to create custom playlists. It's not necessary to add a different page slowing video player to every post. Our player can accept any number of videos to be added to it. That not only supplies faster page loads, but one place to find all the videos of a particular topic or candidate. Once this feature is well known, we think use of our player will increase substantially.

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